Dr. Steffen Siegel has been a professor for the theory and history of photography at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, since 2015. At Folkwang, he is the director of the M.A. program “Photography Studies and Research” and the doctoral program for the theory and history of photography. He is also the chair of the Center for Photography Essen. In 2019 and together with the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, he has launched a bi-annual international conference series for doctoral students and post-docs working in the field of photo history. Most recently, he has published Fotogeschichte aus dem Geist des Fotobuchs (Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019), 1839. Daguerre, Talbot et la publication de la photographie (Éditions Macula, Paris 2020), Circulating Photographs (a special issue of History of Photography, co-edited with Antonella Pelizzari in 2021) and Über Fotografie schreiben (a special issue of Fotogeschichte, co-edited with Bernd Stiegler in 2022). For more information, please have a look at his Folkwang website.
Dr. Siegel will be teaching the graduate course GERM 5510 – What Does Germany Look Like? Photographic Imagi/Nations in the Long 19th Century during the Fall 2024 semester.