volksbild
2007 – 2012
volksbild (2007–2012) was an online archive of anonymous private photography.
The website assembled vernacular slide archives from different decades and contexts into a shared visual field.
Through digitisation, selection and thematic sequencing, private photographs were recontextualised as social image practices.
The archive examined repetition, self-representation and collective visual memory through everyday photography.
volksbild functioned both as an autonomous artistic work and as a generative system for further projects.
Numerous works presented on this website emerged from this archive.
The online archive was taken offline in 2012 for technical reasons.
Iconic Turn
The project is accompanied by theoretical reflections on the “iconic turn” and the increasing ubiquity of images in everyday life, addressing shifts in image production, circulation and perception.
selection of works and projects emerging from the archive
