Peter Geimer

Prof. Dr. Peter Geimer

Director

Since autumn 2022, Peter Geimer has been Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris. He is also Professor of Art History at Freie Universität Berlin (currently on leave). His research areas include the history and theory of photography, the representability of history in images, the relationship between image and text, and the history of knowledge.

 

Further information is available on the German and French version of this page.

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Please refer to the German or French version of this page.

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Monographs toggler toggler

  • Die Farben der Vergangenheit. Wie Geschichte zu Bildern wird, Munich, C.H. Beck, 2022.
    French translation: Les Couleurs du passé, Paris, Macula, 2023.
  • Fliegen. Ein Portrait, Berlin, Matthes & Seitz, 2018.
    French translation: Mouches. Un portrait, Paris, Macula, 2026.
  • Derrida ist nicht zu Hause. Begegnungen mit Abwesenden, with a postface by Marcel Beyer, Hambourg, Philo Fine Arts, 2013.
  • Bilder aus Versehen. Eine Geschichte fotografischer Erscheinungen, Hambourg, Philo Fine Arts, 2010.
    English translation: Inadvertent Images. A History of Photographic Apparitions, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2018.
    French translation: Images par accident. Une histoire des surgissements photographiques, Dijon, Les Presses du réel, 2018.
  • Theorien der Fotografie, Hambourg, Junius, 2009 (6th edition 2021).
    Bulgarian translation: 2011.
  • Die Vergangenheit der Kunst. Strategien der Nachträglichkeit im 18. Jahrhundert, Weimar, VDG, 2002.

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Selected online conversations and interviews