Documents resulting from the conversion of W. G. Sebald’s proper name to an adjective. Today, events, interpretations, and especially photographs — are often labeled as Sebaldian. Here you’ll find our contribution to this fast-growing cottage industry including the ephemera that accompanied our publication Searching for Sebald.
These pages, that represent the 385 images from W. G. Sebald’s four published prose fictions, jump-started our 5-year long study of the late author’s work. By attempting to bring the pictures back to their pre-publication state where they existed only as parts of Sebald’s Bildmaterial, … Continue readingSebald’s photo archive
Sebald, Dean and Warburg explore the power of the Archive.The Archive figured prominently in the ICI’s third title, Searching for Sebald: Photography After W. G. Sebald. In her essay that considered the work of Tacita Dean and Joseph Beuys through the prose fictions of W. G. Sebald, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes compares Dean’s Floh (2001) … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas
White pumpkin from East Anglia, UK. In 2004, an ICI research team re-walked W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. The trip became the lynchpin for our third book, Searching for Sebald. The pumpkin caught our eyes as an emblem of Sebald’s chromophobia.
