Improvised Projections: Philipp Goldbach With Steffen Siegel

This book casts new light on photographic materials assembled at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts, a key site in European art education during the final years of East Germany.

In Improvised Projections, the artist Philipp Goldbach and the photography historian Steffen Siegel turn the spotlight onto how the history of photography was presented in the late German Democratic Republic. Andreas Krase taught at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (or Academy of Fine Arts) in Leipzig from 1985 to 1990. Undisturbed by government oversight, he built a collection of slides over the years that reflects the media history of its time. In their project, Goldbach and Siegel transpose this important archive into a creative arrangement in its own right-a new volume in the KONTEXT series that prompts reflections on the possibilities and limitations of the circulation of knowledge.