Artist Project / German Photographs (1724–2005)

This project documents the places where German-speaking philosophers, from Kant to Adorno, lived and worked. Travelling through Germany, England, Switzerland, and ending up in Los Angeles, Lakey has photographed the places where these thinkers wrote, thought, lived, and, in some cases, died. According to Lakey, “the idea is to look at their surroundings, to see what they saw. … Each photograph asks what the specificity of a place may mean.”

For more from Lakey’s series, see Leland de la Durantaye’s article “Being There” in this issue.