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Arno Gisinger:
Topoï

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Nothing is left to chance in Arno Gisinger’s Topoï. The book is not merely illustrative or informative. It is not just an inventory or a chronological catalog. Rather, Topoï deciphers and reveals the foundations of the photographer’s work, thanks to a team wh...

28.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Asger Carlsen:
Hester

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After having achieved phenomenal success with his first book ‘Wrong’, Asger Carlsen has now pushed the question of photographic truth even further with his second book ‘Hester’, which has recently been released by Morel Books. To find out more about ‘Hester’ and Asger...

01.03.2013[ read full story ]

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Kramer O’Neill: Till Human Voices Wake Us

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Till Human Voices Wake Us takes its title from a line in T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a poem about drowning in memories. It is a meditation on the joy of being in the water, and how that joy contrasts with the overwhelming power of the ocean. W...

26.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Zhang Xiao
They

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Zhang Xiao is one of the new talent of the Chinese photography and his best known and famous work is “Coastline” among others, it was awarded at the Prix HSBC Pour La Photographie in 2011. I had an interview with Xiao last year about “Coastline” and that time we also talked about th...

26.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Book Review #55

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William Klein is good times, breathtaking imagery, energies swept across the universe, captured on film then printed on paper with ink. It’s a long way from the original, that moment when and where it went down, yet Klein’s photographs are always fresh, that intensity always happening ane...

01.03.2013[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Book Review #54

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Photographer and subject have a distinct relationship that is based on the sharing of ideas in mutual exploration of that which does not yet exist until the two come together to bring forth the work, the image that holds the wall or rests, nestled inside the book. The photograph is the sp...

26.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Umbrage Books by Miss Rosen

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Art is the moment we take note, the moment we stop to consider the surface and all that lies beneath. Art empowers us to think for ourselves, to embrace the possibility of layers of meaning and experience cast upon and emanating from the image itself. When set singly, as a print hung upon ...

19.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Jean-Robert Dantou: People who like mondays

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At a time when workers face physical and psychological suffering, fear of the hierarchy and feelings of injustice, when the multinational companies, forced to make short-term gains, prove their inability to maintain sustainable economic development, worker cooperatives offe...

19.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Josef & Jakob Hoflehner: Jet Airliner

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The "Jet Airliner" project was taken over a period of several months between early 2009 and late 2011 at Maho Beach on the Dutch/French island of St. Maarten / St. Martin in the Caribbean Sea. Maho Beach is directly adjacent to the relatively short runway (2,300m) of the Princess...

20.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Ivan Sigal:
White Road

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The expression “white road” is a way to wish someone “bon voyage” in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek. These words are written on road signs at the edges of Asian towns, wishing travelers good luck as they leave civilization to enter the desert lands of the steppe. From 1998 to 2005, the American pho...

20.02.2013[ read full story ]

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