Laughing via Tears: Pictures within the Age of “Too Late” Capitalism

We’re very joyful to welcome photographer Aga Łuczakowska to The Photobook Show and communicate together with her about her new e-book Râsu’-plânsu’ — which roughly interprets as “laughing through tears.” Aga (primarily based in Katowice, Poland) lived and labored in Bucharest, Romania, the place over a number of years she photographed the tiny “interventions” that individuals there made as small acts of resistance towards the uniformity of the decaying communist-era housing they lived in. We’ll additionally discuss with Aga about her fascinating challenge “Interventions” that approachs this e-book as an area for intervention and private expression, in addition to a place to begin to interact in dialogue together with her readers.

We’ll open this episode with a brief presentation of Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism and how this idea of immediacy helps us perceive why the 2 large books we talked about in our final two classes are so huge and why Aga’s “Interventions” work like throwing a wrench into the photographic equipment of the Big Book.