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Edmund Clark
Control Order House

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Established in 2005 to combat the threat of terrorism, the Control Order is a complex system of restrictions which severely limits an individual’s liberty and movement. This work follows photographer Edmund Clark’s confrontation with the program, beginning with a neutral reproductio...

19.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Book Review #67

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For many there is a belief that man holds dominion over the natural world; that it exists for us to do as we wish and bend to our will. That man is may somehow be inherently superior to the water, the earth, the land, the sky—and to all other animals that share these spaces with you and I...

14.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mario Sorrenti:
Draw Blood for Proof

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Initially conceived as a personal project on the walls of Sorrenti’s New York loft, the material in Draw Blood for Proof eventually found its way onto gallery walls as a large-scale installation piece in 2004. Papering the site from floor to ceiling with layers of collected snap...

19.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Craig Fineman
Skateboard Culture

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For those interested in 70’s skateboard culture the space on the bookshelves is becoming more and more of an issue. Craig Fineman’s ’Pools’ is the latest must-have to squeeze in between other illustrated photography books like Dogtown: The Legend of the Z-Boys (2002), The L...

13.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Anthony Hernandez
Rodéo Drive 1984

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In 1984, the American photographer Anthony Hernandez shot the city of Los Angeles, specifically Rodeo Drive, known for its fancy shops. Through the attitudes and emotions Hernandez captured, the viewer discovers an era, a style, and state of mind. Rodeo Drive, 1984 is a subtly re...

03.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Book Review #66

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Music, art, fashion, style. For a glorious moment these things all combined in an ethos of Do It Yourself. In New York City during the 1970s and 80s, the culture of Hip Hop first began to assert itself as DJs, MCs, b-boys and b-girls, created a way of rocking unlike anything the world had...

05.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Saul Leiter
Early Color

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Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter’s color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for forty years afterwards they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensiv...

13.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Robert Frank
Valencia 1952

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In 1950, Robert Frank left his job as a photographer in New York to travel across Europe with his family. That summer, he arrived in Valencia, Spain, at the time a humble place, struggling in the aftermath of the war like the rest of the country. Frank walked through the ...

03.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Robert Frank
Park/Sleep

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Following Tal Uf Tal Ab (2012) and You would (2012), Park/Sleep is Robert Frank’s third visual journal. Here American master delivers a series of intimate photographs, old and new, taken of his friends, family, house and studio. The black-and-whit...

03.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Photojournalists on War:
Untold Stories from Iraq

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The Iraq War will be remembered as a paradigm shift in diplomacy, aesthetics and the media. As Dexter Filkins suggests in the introduction to his book Photographers on War, the war was the first and last of its kind. Michael Kamber is one of the witnesses to this co...

29.05.2013[ read full story ]

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