Peter Loewy by the way

Blessing or Curse - Mobile Phone Photography It is our constant companion: the mobile phone, or what Germans call the "handy." With all its functions and apps it finds its way ever deeper into our everyday life. It changes how we communicate, speeds up everything we do, and intervenes very subtly in our way of thinking. Indeed, it even preoccupies addiction experts and occupies therapists more and more with the question of how to handle the ubiquitous new drug of mobile telephony. An essential achievement that the mobile phone has brought us is the digital mobile telephone camera. Initially treated with condescension, it now has cult status. It was therefore an obvious step to address this topic from both an artistic and scholarly perspective in an exhibition and in this book. With a selection of 150 works by the Frankfurt photographer Peter Loewy, we examine the extent to which mobile phone photography has changed or even revolutionized the history of photography after almost 200 years. What does it mean if everyone is able at any time to capture passing life photographically? Is it a blessing or a curse for humankind in the 21st century? We would like to thank Christiane Kuhlmann for introducing us in her text to the manifold approaches to this young topic. We thank Peter Loewy for the idea of this exhibition and of the book, which thanks to Markus Braun of hackenschuh com. design and B.O.S.S. Medien has found a form adequate to the content. Stephan Mann Uwe Schramm