Camera Austria International – Miss Read

Camera Austria International

Since 1980, the Graz-based magazine Camera Austria International has been providing its readers with insights into important discourses on the role of photography as a medium and practice of contemporary art—presenting outstanding artists who have made extraordinary contributions to the continual development of the medium.

The bilingual (ger./eng.), quarterly published magazine is not primarily engaged with topicality but also makes materials available that, as part of long-term and sustainable discourse, retain significance after the fact as source material. Over the years, this has resulted in an archive and reference body on contemporary photography.

In the Edition Camera Austria, we are publishing books with a focus placed on Austrian artists. The publications are created in close collaboration with the artists themselves, often giving a first overview of their work or introducing new projects.

At Miss Read 2024, Camera Austria will share a table with Grazer Kunstverein.
Camera Austria International #159 – #166
Camera Austria International #159 – #166, Camera Austria, 2024

Overview of the last magazine issues.

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Camera Austria International No. 166; Cover: Daniel Mebarek, from the series: Radicalis, 2020–ongoing. Inkjet print, dimensions variable.
Camera Austria International No. 166; Cover: Daniel Mebarek, from the series: Radicalis, 2020–ongoing. Inkjet print, dimensions variable., Camera Austria, 2024

The latest issue of Camera Austria International introduces artistic positions that deal with the complex, often subtle aspects of social distinction in an educational or training context, with the possibly subversive potential of educational institutions, or with non-Western forms of knowledge production.

With an image-text contribution by Arne Schmitt and Jenny Schäfer, a conversation between Daniel Mebarek and Taous R. Dahmani, a text by Reinhard Braun on the project “Devenir Universidad” by Ursula Biemann, and an essay by Ilija Matusko on the work of Susanne Keichel.

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Our Pocketkamera 1985
Seiichi Furuya, Our Pocketkamera 1985, Edition Camera Austria, 2023 © Camera Austria

This book is the latest edition of a photobook project that Seiichi Furuya began to develop in 2019, based on various documents found in the attic of his house. With “Face to Face” (2020) and “First Trip to Bologna 1978 / Last Trip to Venice 1985” (2022), both published by Chose Commune, “Our Pocketkamera 1985” is the third one. A fourth “By Christine 1978–1985,” is in preparation.

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