From the first physiological experiments in the mid-19th century to the beginning of empirical emotion research, photographed feelings are explored right up to more recent research on AI. While photography with its evidential power serves science as a documentation medium for a better understanding of feelings, the broad spectrum of photographic representation possibilities in art is also used to appeal to its counterpart via the communicative function of feelings.
Geraldine Spiekermann studied art history at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and completed her doctorate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2012 on the subject of tears in modern art. She is a research assistant at the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam and lives in Berlin.