Authors: Estelle Blaschke & Armin Linke
Curators: Thomas Seelig, Francesco Zanot, Florian Ebner and Anne-Marie Beckmann
A cooperation by MUSEUM FOLKWANG, Essen, FONDAZIONE MAST, Bologna, CENTRE POMPIDOU, Paris, and DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION, Frankfurt/Eschborn
Project management and coordination, Armin Linke Studio: Martina Pozzan and Kati Simon
Production: Chiara Badiali, Maria Anna Cramm, Olga Frydryszak-Retat, Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Luca Marenzi, Marie-Luise Mayer, Matthias Pfaller, Marina Rotondo, Cornelia Siebert, Jaël Steiner and Petra Steinhardt
Graphic design and website development: Laure Giletti and Gregory Dapra (Eurogroupe)
Exhibition design: Martina Pozzan and Martha Schwindling
Exhibition architecture consultancy: Antonas Office
Image printing: Elena Capra
Video recording: Giulia Bruno, Laura Fiorio and Armin Linke
Video/audio editing and post-production: Giulia Bruno, Giuseppe Ielasi, Armin Linke and Martina Pozzan
Printing assistance and studio archive: Paola Spagnuolo
Copyediting: Estelle Blaschke and Vanessa Vasić-Janeković
Translation: Matthias Pfaller, Nikolaus G. Schneider EN > DE
Proofreading: Amanda Gomez EN, Nikolaus G. Schneider DE
Publisher: intercom Verlag
Open access publication: image-capital.com
We would like to thank the following institutions for lending us exhibits: ADS8 Data Matter, Royal College of Art; Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio, Biblioteche di Bologna – Comune di Bologna; Istituto; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Museum Folkwang, Girardet-Archiv, Essen; Historisches Archiv Krupp, Essen; Istituto Geografico Militare (IGM), Firenze / Italian Military Geographic Institute (IGMI), Florence; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI); Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team, Cagliari; Meta Office, Delft.
Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke would like to express their gratitude to the Museum Folkwang, the Friends of the Photography Collection at Museum Folkwang, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Fondazione MAST, the University of Basel, the Centre Pompidou and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation for their generous support in realising this ambitious project, and especially to Peter Gorschlüter, Thomas Seelig, Isabella Seràgnoli, Francesco Zanot, Laurent Le Bon, Florian Ebner and Anne-Marie Beckmann. The research project was partly made possible with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, The Huntington Library, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, and Arts at CERN, as part of its Guest Artists program.
Image Capital was first presented in an early iteration at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and was awarded the Kubus.Sparda Art Prize in 2019.
Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke would like to thank all the institutions, individuals, authors and interview partners who have contributed to this project.
Special thanks to:
Radhakrishna Achanta, Patrick Andrä, Aristide Antonas, Hannah Baader, Banca d’Italia, Roma / Bank of Italy, Rome; Bartoli Stefano Cornici, Tullio Basaglia, Mónica Bello, Ann-Christin Bertrand, BNP Paribas, Paris; Lauritz Bohne, Hans Brandhorst, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton; Ben Burbridge, Giulia Caponnetto, Andrea Cantile, Costanza Caraffa, CNRS, Marseille; Edo Collins, Alessandra Curti, Kamil Hilmi Dalkir, Andrea Degenhardt, Ewald de Koning, Antonella Del Rosso, Ute Dercks, Rhiarna Dhaliwal, Livio di Luca, George Eastman House, the Legacy Collection; Neriman Emre, Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft, Khalid Fahad; Franco Farinelli, Maria Fidecaro, Forschungszentrum Jülich; Paul Frosh, Peter Galison, Carlos Gonzalez, Stefanie Grebe, Elena Grigoryeva, Ulrike Groos, Sabine Gruber, Nils Güttler, Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Dirk Helmrich, Hannes Hergath, Hilti Deutschland, Hilti Italia, Susanne Holschbach, IBM Corporate Archives, Poughkeepsie, New York; Wenzel Jakob, Peter Jenni, Fengping Jin, Frédéric Kaplan, Casper Kleiman, Bastian Koller, Selim Krichane, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Tamino Kuny, Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, Champs-sur-Marne; Thomas Lippert, Adam Lowe, Olivier Lugon, Marinus Luiten, Olivier Malavergne, Clara Maldini, Reinhard Matz, Paul Mellenthin, Kristel Michielsen, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; Simone C. Niquille, Olga Oschatschy, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Matthias Pfaller, Vice comandante Generale Giuseppe Poccia, Dennis Pohl, Meiny Prins, Priva, De Lier; Reality Capture, Michael M. Resch, Anna Chiara Reupke, Sandrine Reyes, Niki Rhyner, Michele Righini, Eleonora Rossi, Gent Shehu, Lea Scherer, Reinhard Schmidt, Sebastian Schmidt, Alexander Schug; Bernhard Schurian, Sarah Scott Kubiak, Steffen Siegel, Heidi Specker, Colonnello Maurizio Sperti, Raymundo Stadelmann, Max Stadler, Leslie Stauffer, Gesine Steiner, Alberto Stievanin, Estela Suarez, Sabine Süsstrunk, Ter Laak Orchids, Wateringen; Pietro Tornabene; University of Rochester, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation (RBSCP), Kodak, Historical Collection; University of Stuttgart, High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS), Stuttgart; Caroline van den Berg, vistamare Milano / Pescara, Georg Vrachliotis, Jan Westra, Dennis Willsch; Madita Willsch, Gerhard Wolf, Uwe Wössner, Arthur Zalewski, Amir Zamir, Edward Zammit