Rolf Sachsse

Apprenticed as a photographer, studied Art History, Communication Research and Literature in Munich and Bonn, awarded a doctorate for a thesis dealing with the history of photography. Freelance author, artist, curator, photographer. From 1985 to 2004 Professor of Photography and Electronic Image Media at the Design Faculty of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld, since 1995 Associated Professor at the Karlsruhe State College of Design, from 2004 to 2017 Professor of the History and Theory of Design at the Saar College of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken.

His publications include (selection): »Farbsysteme. Das Gehirn der Welt«, (with Wilhelm Ostwald), Ostfildern-Ruit 2004; »Peter Weibel, Gamma und Amplitude. Medien- und kunsttheoretische Schriften«, edited, commented and prefaced by Rolf Sachsse, Berlin 2004; »Fotografie, Vom technischen Bildmittel zur Krise der Repräsentation«, Cologne 2003; »Die Erziehung zum Wegsehen, Photographie im NS-Staat«, Berlin/Dresden 2003; »Bazon Brock, Bilderstreit und stramme Haltung, Ausgewählte Texte«, published, edited and prefaced by Rolf Sachsse, Dresden 2002; »Hilla und Bernhard Becher. Silo für Kokskohle, Zeche Hannibal, Bochum-Hofstede, 1967. Das Anonyme und das Plastische der Industriephotographie«, Frankfurt am Main 1999.

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