Artists on Photography: Travel and Souvenir Albums from Outside Europe in the Münchner Stadtmuseum Photography Collection: Lilly Lulay / Eksuda Singhalampong / Kathrin Schönegg, Rahaab Allana, Idurre Alonso, Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek, Yining He

The publication is produced in association with the “Artists on Photography” fellowship awarded by the Münchner Stadtmuseum’s Photography Collection. It draws on the output of fellows Lilly Lulay and Eksuda Singhalampong to explore the collection of non-European travel and souvenir photography bundled together with historical photo albums from South Africa, India, Japan, China, Vietnam, New Zealand, Argentina, and other countries. Who traveled to the Global South in the nineteenth century to take photographs there, and who purchased the pictures and albums? How were the different countries and people depicted? What role did photography play in the nineteenth century as a source of souvenirs, and how has this been changed by globalization? What kind of afterlife do these images and the sometimes violent structures that inform them have in the age of AI? The book is rounded out by thirteen short essays by experts from the particular regions.