Juergen Staack

The comprehensive monograph on Juergen Staack (b. 1978): What is a (photographic) image, and what can it do? For more than twenty years, the artist has been exploring the intersections of photography, conceptual art, performance and language. Through numerous illustrations and texts, this volume traces how Staack’s artistic practice expands the concepts, interpretations and terminology of photography.

Questions of image production, representation, authorship and the decay of media and photographic images stand at the centre of Juergen Staack’s work. He has a gift for making the conditions and limits of the medium itself the subject of his investigations. He links classical image production with performative situations and vividly demonstrates artistic counter-strategies to the feverish image production of the twenty-first century.