This is a review of these two major photo exhibitions that I saw during my research visit to Riga, Latvia, at the end of 2024: “Gleizds, Paper, Scissors” at the Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum and “Binde 100–10” at the Latvian National Museum of Art.
Read moreBook review: Katrīna Teivāne. "Roberts Johansons. Zeitgeist and Photography"
Alise Tifentale, “The Long Road Up Against the Stream” (Tālais ceļš augšup pret straumi). [Book review of: Katrīna Teivāne. Roberts Johansons. Zeitgeist and Photography (Roberts Johansons. Laikmets un fotogrāfija) Riga: Neputns, 2022.]
Book review published in: Art History and Theory (Mākslas vēsture un teorija) 27 (2023): 87-89.
Download the book review PDF here (Latvian only)!
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to review the latest book by my dear friend Katrīna Teivāne, titled Roberts Johansons. Zeitgeist and Photography (Roberts Johansons. Laikmets un fotogrāfija) (Riga: Neputns, 2022). It is an extremely well-researched and elegantly written monograph about one of the most important photographers in Latvia, Roberts Johansons (1877-1959).
The book is available at the publisher’s website, https://www.neputns.lv/products/laikmets-un-fotografija-roberts-johansons, as well as in the ISSP online store https://shop.issp.lv/products/roberts-johansons-age-and-photography
The review was commissioned by the main art history journal in Latvia, Mākslas Vēsture un Teorija, and is published in its vol. 27 (2023).
Find out more about the journal Mākslas Vēsture un Teorija, vol. 27 (2023).
Photos from the book opening at the National Library of Latvia in Riga, May 2022.
Katrīna Teivāne (on the right) and myself at the opening of the book in May 2022.
The following two images are from the Facebook album of the book publisher Neputns (more photos here).
The author of the book, Katrīna Teivāne (left) and myself (right).
I had the honor to congratulate Katrīna and say a few words about the book as well as some of the difficulties that pose a challenge to photo historians.
New essay: “Completing an Unfinished Sentence: On the Collaboration between Sophie Thun and the Archive of Zenta Dzividzinska"
For this essay, I revisit the collaboration between the artist Sophie Thun and the archive of my mother, the artist and photographer Zenta Dzividzinska. The collaboration, initiated by the curator Zane Onckule, began in 2021 and later continues in Sophie’s other projects.
Read moreSuccessful conference day! Our panel at the ASEEES 2021 Annual Convention
I had the pleasure and excitement to serve as a discussant at the ASEEES 2021 Annual Convention virtual session Fake Equality: The Activity, Impact, and Representation of Women in Photo Clubs and Organizations in the Late Soviet Period. The panel session went live Thursday, December 2, 2021 8am CST (4pm EET).
Read moreRoundtable at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
I had the honor to participate in a panel discussion on the occasion of the exhibition celebration and virtual opening reception - Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, on April 29, 2021.
Read moreNew article: "Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska"
Sizzling hot off the metaphorical press! New article in Museum of Modern Art’s online research publication Post. Notes on Art in Global Context, listed in sections Central & Eastern Europe and Art and Gender.
Read moreVideo review of "Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography"
Alise Tifentale reviews the book Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography in conversation with the editors of the book, Šelda Puķīte and Indrek Grigor. The video first aired on March 24, 2021.
Read moreHot off the press: "The Role of Photo Clubs, Magazines, Exhibitions, and Curators in Latvian Photography, 1960–2000”
A new book chapter published in a volume about the twentieth-century art in Latvia.
Read moreNew book chapter on photo history: "Fifty Year Eclipse"
"Fifty Year Eclipse: Illuminating the Forgotten Legacy of Photographer Vilis Rīdzenieks" is a book chapter commissioned for an edited volume dedicated to the legacy of Latvian photographer Vilis Rīdzenieks (1884–1962).
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