Vortrag Sophie Junge, München: Sehen, Vermessen, Beherrschen: Landschaftsfotografien im Kontext US-amerikanischer Expansionsansprüche

In the organizer's words:

Lecture by Sophie Junge, Munich: Seeing, Measuring, Dominating: Landscape photographs in the context of US-American expansionist claims

Landscape photographs play a central role in the constitution of imagined communities: they make territories visible and at the same time function as visual instruments for mapping, demarcating borders and securing power. In this sense, they are not only aesthetic representations, but also scientific and political practices of appropriation. The lecture analyzes historical and contemporary landscape representations with regard to visual continuities and their specific publication contexts. The focus is on the dialectic between the supposedly documentary camera view and the territorial expansion claims of the USA from a cultural-historical perspective as well as in the political present.

The lecture is part of the lecture series The Eye of the Camera: Art, Politics and Perception in American Photography. The series is organized by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie and the Amerika-Institut der LMU

PARTICIPATION: Participation is free of charge. The event will take place on site at the ZI (Room 242, II. OG) and will be broadcast in parallel via Zoom. Information on the lecture and Zoom link: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026/vortrag-sophie-junge