Making Do and Getting By
July 02, 2012
Author:
Renata Bittencourt Grasso
Richard Wentworth’s photographs shed light on human resourcefulness and improvisation, celebrating a very much deliberate modification of the modern landscape.
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Wolfgang Tillmans and (Re)cycling Stories
June 27, 2012
Author:
Annie Goodner
For Tillmans the exhibition model is just as central to the story he is telling as an individual photograph. Throughout his career, the flexibility of his works—their ability to stand alone as well as in conversation with other
Memento Mori
June 20, 2012
Author:
Leda Georgiades
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column
Post-mortem
Leda Georgiades explored post-mortem photography the old days.
The Desire to Keep
June 12, 2012
Author:
Katherine Oktober Matthews
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Katherine Oktober Matthews
The ephemerality of a moment induces us to want to keep it. And not in a paint-a-picture-of-it-later kind of way, but a striking, base human drive to bottle an emotion.
F. C. Gundlach: The Photographic Works
May 31, 2012
Author:
Sofia Caycedo
The book “The Photographic Work” provides an overview of F. C. Gundlach’s highly rich oeuvre, proving that the influential German fashion photographer was a remarkable visual investigator and a key contributor to post-war European popular culture.
The thrill of childhood, interrupted
May 09, 2012
Author:
Marie-Charlotte Pezé
I think this is what happiness is. Your hands let go and you giddily fly down the slope, taking up speed and losing anchor, with your eyes closed and your chest filled with an erratic, surreal taste of childhood.
On Ruin and Loss
May 01, 2012
Author:
Katherine Oktober Matthews
This is a feeling of loss that every person who creates will experience, and likely experience many times: the sudden, sharp realization that what you’ve created is now ruined, lost, and cannot be returned.
Mexican Melancholy: a conversation with Jan Smith
April 25, 2012
Author:
Sam Nallen Copley
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Interview
Jan Smith likes to hang out in places others do not. The Mexican adventurer, celebrated by ghost-town enthusiasts and monochrome photograph appreciators worldwide for his chilling stills of abandoned spaces, is currently in Tokyo promoting his work on Fuk
The Familiar Looking Strange
April 24, 2012
Author:
Erik Vroons
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Experimental
1930s
Joachim Schmid
Found photography
Surrealism
People like Joachim Schmid, John Stezaker, Daniel Gordon, Chantal Heijnen (to just name a few) reactivate found photography to offer the viewer an inexhaustible invitation to deduction, speculation, and fantasy. They are the ‘artists’. But is it not the c
Lands of Lonely Consumption
April 16, 2012
Author:
Annie Goodner
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Nadine Stijns
Noorderlicht 2011
Beijing
The Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography
At last month’s Noorderlicht Photography Festival Nadine Stijns, (based in Den Haag) integrated the sterile environments of her latest series “After-Hours Shopping Mall”, featuring empty shopping complexes in Beijing within an equally austere exhibition s