Balance Studies. Photography
for Everyone is a conceptual photo book based on a manual proposed by Lucia Moholy in 1933. She was forced to emigrate
and was unable to complete her instruction book. With this publication, Caroline Heider explicitly places herself in the long
tradition of instruction manuals in which female photographers are advised not only to master the camera and lighting, but
above all image composition, i.e.: they should learn to see. At the same time, as a female author, she breaks with tradition,
as this type of guidebook literature is almost exclusively written from a male perspective.
With a contribution
by Ruth Horak.
Caroline Heider, Department of Applied Photography & Time-Based Media,
University of Applied Arts Vienna
BOOK PRESENTATION
Wednesday,
October 15, 2025 – 6 p.m.
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Flux 2
Vordere Zollamtsstraße
7, 3rd floor
1030 Vienna
In conversation
Caroline Heider
with
Nik Thoenen,
graphic designer
and
Ruth Horak, art historian, curator, author
An event by Publications
in cooperation with the editor
Barrier-free access to this venue. Find details on dieangewandte.at/barrier-free
Balance Studies – Fotografie für alle
Caroline Heider
Fotohof Edition, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-903334-69-4 (German-language
edition)
ISBN: 978-3-903334-90-8 (English-language
edition)
To
the book
