Documentary Style Reconsidered. Contesting Walker Evans
Installation view of Walker Evans. Now and Then. KBr Fundación Mapfre, Barcelona, 2026
Jorge Ribalta, director of the cycle of lectures “Documentary Style Reconsidered. Contesting Walker Evans”, gathers different voices to address, from various perspectives, the history of the documentary discourse in photography, especially in the formative decades of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the moment of critical reaction that took place in the 1970s and 1980s.
The documentary genre is probably more ambiguous and complex than some definitions suggest, and this series invites that reflection.
Featuring Christian Joschke, Bernd Stiegler, Stephanie Schwartz, Larisa Dryansky, Thomas Weski, Marcelo Expósito, José Luís Guerín, and Paulino Viota.
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Dates
Time
Format
Program
March
Christian Joschke
Documentary Practices and Class Struggle Politics in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Cases of Germany and France
19 h, in-person and online
Bernd Stiegler
August Sander and the Invention of Social Documentary Portrait Photography
19 h, in-person and online
Stephanie Schwartz
Walker Evans and the Problem of Style
19 h, in-person and online
April
Larisa Dryansky
On New Topographics and the Redefinition of the Documentary Style in the 1970s
19 h, in-person and online
Thomas Weski
About Michael Schmidt The End of a Tradition?
19 h, in-person and online
Documentary between Cinema and Photography.
Fictionalizing Reality.
A Conversation Between Marcelo Expósito, José Luis Guerín and Paulino Viota
19 h, in-person and online