Katja Müller-Helle is head of the Research Centre “The Technical Image” at the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques and the Department of Art and Visual History of the Humboldt University of Berlin. 2013-2019 she was a post-doctoral scholar at the Centre for Advanced Studies BildEvidenz. History and Aesthetics at the Free University of Berlin. In 2014/15 and 2018 Katja Müller-Helle was a fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She is co-editor of “Bildwelten des Wissens. Jahrbuch für Bildkritik”. Her research covers the history and theory of photography, technical images, pictorial censorship, and historiographies of pictorial evidence.

Among her publications are Das Sichtbare und das Sagbare. Evidenz zwischen Text und Bild in Roland Barthes‘ „Mythen des Alltags“, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2020 (edited with Peter Geimer); The Legacy of Transgressive Objects, Berlin: August Verlag 2018; Zeitspeicher der Fotografie. Zukunftsbilder 1860–1913, Paderborn: Fink 2017; „The Past Future of Futurist Movement Photography”, in: The Getty Research Journal, no 7, 2015: 109-23; „Stumme Zeugen. Fotografische Bildevidenz am Rand der Wahrscheinlichkeit”, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, no 11, 2/2014: 37-48; Blitzlicht. Berlin/Zürich: diaphanes, 2012 (edited with Florian Sprenger).

For more information: https://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/personen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/katja-mueller-helle/

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