Jan Ketz Knihy

The newly conceived Yearbook of the DGPh (that is, of the German Photographic Society) dedicates its first edition to collecting. Well-known authors discuss the topic from institutional and personal viewpoints, exploring its key strategies and its psychological aspects. Reviews of the year's most important publications and exhibitions, along with 30 tritones, complete the package, which is directed not just to specialists but to all those interested in photography. This first Yearbook is dedicated to the longtime Honorary President of the DGPh, the photography collector and mentor Professor L. Fritz Gruber, who died last year. Frame #1 honors his collection and his essential nature.

The Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (New Society for Visual Arts) presents an exhibition by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar (Santiago de Chile, *1956) simultaneously at three Berlin institutions. The monographic show offers a retrospective survey of an artistic production spanning close to four decades. It gives insights into the political topicality of the works by the two-time documenta participant and elucidates the critical methods of archiving, research and intervention employed by the artist.