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DESCRIPTION:The coal mines\, processing plants\, and factories of the Ruhr 
 industrial region of Germany constituted an enduring preoccupation for Albe
 rt Renger-Patzsch\, one of the leading representatives of the "New Objectiv
 ity" tendency of German art and photography in the 1920s. In keeping with m
 odernist photographic values of clarity and precision\, Renger-Patzsch offe
 red a distinctly hygienic vision of the Ruhr's industrial landscape\, one t
 hat suppressed the smoke\, dust\, and smog that plagued the region. This ta
 lk revisits Renger-Patzsch's work in the Ruhr in order to reconsider modern
 ist photography through an ecological lens. It argues for an extractive imp
 ulse in Renger-Patzsch's approach\, framing it as an operation analogous to
  that of mining itself—one that extracts form and pictorial clarity from a 
 compromised environment. In doing so\, it offers an ecocritical account of 
 photographic modernism’s fraught relations with extractive modernity.\n\nKa
 terina Korola (Assistant Professor of German\, UMN Twin Cities) is an art h
 istorian and media scholar whose research and teaching explore the history 
 of photography\, cinema\, and art from the nineteenth century to the presen
 t\, with an emphasis on the intersection of media and the environment in mo
 dern Germany. She is currently working on her first book\, Picturing the Ai
 r: Photography and the Industrial Atmosphere\, a history of air pollution a
 s a photographic problem. Other research interests include the visual cultu
 re of science\, ecocriticism\, and environmental art. In 2022\, Katerina cu
 rated the exhibition Unsettled Ground: Art and Environment from the Smart M
 useum Collection as a Humanities Teaching Fellow in Art History at the Univ
 ersity of Chicago. In fall 2024\, she is a fellow at the Institute for Adva
 nced Study at Princeton University.\n\nZoom link: https://umn.zoom.us/j/949
 19441049
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LOCATION:John Q. Imholte Hall\, 109
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SUMMARY:Art History and Environmental Studies Virtual Visiting Lecture: Dr.
  Katerina Korola\, UMN Twin Cities\, "Extractive Vision: German Photography
  in the 1920s through an Ecological Lens"
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URL:https://events.morris.umn.edu/event/art-history-virtual-visiting-lectur
 e-dr-katerina-korola-umn-twin-cities-extractive-vision-german-photography-i
 n-the-1920s-through-an-ecological-lens
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