Into the Unseen unsettles our understanding of photography through a multisensory approach that engages the affective dimensions of this complex medium. In six distinct chapters, the book guides readers through eclectic sensorial encounters with photographic media. "Frequencies of Darkness" explores darkness as a hinge point between documentation and imagination, psychic and physical space, life and the afterlife. "Holding Everyday Life" focuses on the photo album as a haptic object made to be touched and held. "Listening to the Land" contemplates the physical and ephemeral traces of trauma and resistance in decolonized landscapes. "Tracing Sediments" explores the fragile texture of images that carry physical inscriptions of histories of loss, damage, dispersal, recovery, and reclamation. "Tasting, Touching, Feeling" focuses on the work of artists who push the boundaries of perception, pain, and social norms. Finally, "Sensing Time" asks us to see, think, and feel change from a non-human perspective. The book accompanies an acclaimed exhibition of the same name at. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, and includes an introduction by Artur Walther, along with essays by Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Tina M. Campt and Shawn Michelle Smith, and artistic contributions by Ana María. Gómez López and Felipe Romero Beltrán.
Into the Unseen unsettles our understanding of photography through a multisensory approach that engages the affective dimensions of this complex medium. In six distinct chapters, the book guides readers through eclectic sensorial encounters with photographic media. "Frequencies of Darkness" explores darkness as a hinge point between documentation and imagination, psychic and physical space, life and the afterlife. "Holding Everyday Life" focuses on the photo album as a haptic object made to be touched and held. "Listening to the Land" contemplates the physical and ephemeral traces of trauma and resistance in decolonized landscapes. "Tracing Sediments" explores the fragile texture of images that carry physical inscriptions of histories of loss, damage, dispersal, recovery, and reclamation. "Tasting, Touching, Feeling" focuses on the work of artists who push the boundaries of perception, pain, and social norms. Finally, "Sensing Time" asks us to see, think, and feel change from a non-human perspective. The book accompanies an acclaimed exhibition of the same name at. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, and includes an introduction by Artur Walther, along with essays by Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Tina M. Campt and Shawn Michelle Smith, and artistic contributions by Ana María. Gómez López and Felipe Romero Beltrán.
Über den Autor
The Walther Collection is a charitable art foundation dedicated to the critical understanding of historical and contemporary photography and related lens-based media. Through a dedicated program of international exhibitions, in-depth collecting, original research and scholarly publications, the collection aims to highlight the social uses of photography, and to expand the history of the medium. The Walther Collection's diverse activities are centered on its expansive holdings of photography and media art from Africa, China, Japan, Europe and America, as well as vernacular imagery from across the globe. Steidl's books with the collection include Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity (2010), Appropriated Landscapes (2011), Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive (2013), The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection (2015), Photography and Video Art (2017), Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art (2018), Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (2020) and Re/ Trace—Formations of Likeness (2025).
