Art & Theory

Lieven Gevaert Series

innovative cutting-edge books on contemporary photography

Named after a ground-breaking figure in the Belgian photography industry, the Lieven Gevaert Series is a peer reviewed series of innovative books on photography. Launched in 2004, the Lieven Gevaert Series takes into account the ubiquitous presence of photography within modern culture and, in particular, the visual arts. At the forefront of contemporary thinking on photography, the books offer new insights into the position of the photographic medium within the art historical, theoretical, social and institutional contexts.

The series covers four types of publications: • outstanding monographic studies, • multi-authored volumes on a specific topic, • book-length projects with artists, and • translations and/or reprints of classic texts.

All books are published in English and are written for an international audience of scholars.

The series is published in collaboration with the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography at the University of Leuven and Université catholique de Louvain (www.lievengevaertcentre.be). The series editors are Hilde Van Gelder (hilde.vangelder@arts.kuleuven.be) and Alexander Streitberger (alex.streitberger@uclouvain.be).

Recently published in the Lieven Gevaert Series: • Shifting Places: Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs, Alexander Streitberger

With rich image material arranged by Peter Downsbrough himself and an exclusive interview with the artist! € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 872 0, July 2011, English • The Art of Strip Photography. Making Still Images with a Moving Camera, Maarten Vanvolsem

The strip technique can tell a different story of time and space in photographic images, a story that leads to new expressions and experiences of time and movement. € 34,50/ £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 840 9, May 2011, English • Time and Photography, Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger, Hilde Van Gelder (eds)

This book brings together the various aspects of time in photography as well as of photography in time. € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 793 8, May 2010, English • Situational Aesthetics. Selected Writings by Victor Burgin, Alexander Streitberger,

Victor Burgin (eds)

Overview of Burgin’s rich and multifaceted work during the last forty years.

Now available at reduced price! € 29,50 / £26.50 instead of € 45,00 / £39.00, isbn 978 90 5867 768 6, November 2009, English

For more information about the series, visit www.lgseries.be

Minor Photography

Connecting Deleuze and Guattari to Photography Theory Mieke Bleyen (ed.)

the first book to apply the concept of the ‘minor’ to the theory of photography

The notion of the minor, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Kafka,Towards a minor literature (1975), is introduced and connected applied here for the very first time to the field of photography theory. Deleuze and Guattari defined minor literature in terms of deterritorialization,politicization and collectivization. By transferring ‘the minor’ to the medium of photography, this book enlarges the idea of ‘the minor’ and opens it up to all kinds of mutations in the process. The essays gathered in this book discuss the ways in which photography can make the dominant codes of representation stammer and how it can produce new affects and address people yet to come. The authors consider ‘the minor’ as a valuable tool to help photography research move beyond, or in between, binary and hierarchized ways of thinking (of high and low art, for example, or centre and periphery). As such, it aims to contribute to a rethinking of photography as multiplicity and variation. Consequently, the term is connected with both marginal and canonical photographic practices, covering photographers as different ` as Miroslav Tichy, Paul McCarthy, Tacita Dean, Dan Graham, and Paul Nougé. After developing a theory of the minor, this book explores how the operations of the minor can be found in major art practices. It closes by tackling the question of photography as variation in case studies of belated forms of surrealist photography.

€ 34,50 / £30.00 isbn 978 90 5867 910 9 04/2012 17 x 23 cm Paperback ca. 200 p. Illustrated nur 652 Lieven Gevaert Series 13 English

mieke bleyen is a researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography and the Institute of Cultural Studies at the KU Leuven (Belgium). She is currently completing a PhD on the topic of minor photography. contributors Simon O’Sullivan(Goldsmiths College, London), Gilles Rouffineau (École des beaux-arts de Valence), Neil Matheson (University of Westminster, London), Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes (University of Ulster, Belfast), Eric De Bruyn (University of Leiden), Frédéric Thomas (Université de Paris, Saint Denis), Liesbeth Decan (Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel – KU Leuven), Mieke Bleyen (KU Leuven), Jelena Stojkovic (University of Westminster, London)