Urban Exile Is Out Now!
We are very happy to share the news that Urban Exiles: Theories, Methods, Research Practices is out now!
Author: Helene Roth
METROMOD on Wikipedia
Since today METROMOD has his own Wikipedia page
Workshop Participation July, 15th
We are happy to announce that METROMOD will be part of the workshop of the blog „Stadtgeschichten“ next Friday, July 15th. The workshop will take place at the Historisches Seminar at the LMU Munich.
Series #4: From photobooks, photo agencies and photo studios: The contribution of émigré photographers from present-day Ukraine to the visual history of New York
This article analyses how photographers who were born in cities of present-day Ukraine created urban visions and established their own businesses in exile in New York.
Series on historical émigré artists from present-day Ukraine in METROMOD cities
The first half of the 20th century was marked by world wars and shifting borders. Nation states dissolved and led to territorial shifts. At the same time, imperial, totalitarian and colonial claims to power opposed efforts to establish independent nation states. In a short series, METROMOD follows the traces of those who experienced the changing … Continued
The curve of the Elevated Train at Coenties Slip in New York
Helene Roth’s article on the sharped curve of the Elevated Railroad line at the Coenties Slip and the visualisations of émigré photographers as Fred Stein, Andreas Feininger, Mario Bucovich, T. Lux Feininger and Ellen Auerbach was published in the column „Das Bild in seiner Zeit” in the current issue of the magazine ReVue.
Transnational Research for the METROMOD archive II: on the traces of the photographer Walter Sanders
Cross-border research can already begin when people change their surnames after emigration. Therefore, it is often difficult to trace the émigré life and work back to their homelands and to their future life in exile. This is the case with the German-born photographer Walter Süssman.
Release METROMOD walks
After more than a year of work we’re very much looking forward to release our curated walks on our METROMOD cities today.
"First Pictures": New York through the Lens of Emigrated European Photographers in the 1930s and 1940s
Helene Roth’s essay on German-speaking émigrés photographers is part of the recent outcoming publication “Contact Zones. Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States” edited by Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien with the publishing house Leuven University Press.
Russian-speaking émigrés artists in Istanbul (Beyoğlu)
Ekaterina Aygün’s new article on Russian-speaking émigré artists in Istanbul (Beyoğlu) in the 1920s was published in June in Toplumsal Tarih magazine!