How to Look at a Camera

Abstract

This visual essay explores a body of works entitled “How to Look at the Camera”, which highlights two central aspects of the medium of photography: looking and being looked at, visibility and invisibility. By translating vernacular images from the nineteenth century into contemporary images, which are freed from their original context of meaning, she uses them to inquire into the nature of photography.

This body of work has been recently put in relation with photographs from the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G, Hamburg), in a show called “Reconsidering Photography: The Staging of the Gaze”.