Mike Brodie doesn’t have a telephone, so I asked someone who asked someone who asked Mike Brodie a few questions about how he taught himself to make such well-crafted photos when he had never trained as a photographer. Brodie answered, “The first camera I used was a Polaroid 600, the...

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The London-branch of the Daniel Blau gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of affordable vintage 20th century photojournalism from the United States. The viewer is presented with images of classic icons of traditional America, such as flags and roads, to more gritty and blea...

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The American photographer William Eggleston emerged in the early 1960s as one of the pioneers of modern color photography. Today, fifty years later, he is the figure most associated with its proliferation. The exhibition At War with the Obvious: Photographs by Willi...

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The book opens with a photograph of a crashed glider sticking vertically out of a field, with about fifty people looking agape behind the two long wings that hold the plane in this dramatic position. It continues with an incessant parade of twisted metal, upside down vehicles, life...

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Founded in 1966 in the basement of Flatbush resident Charlene Victor, Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) has grown in stature and scope so as to become a hub for the local scene, providing a wide array of services for emerging artists and arts organizations based in Brooklyn. BAC gives ...

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The past three decades of war and chaos have had a devastating impact on Afghanistan and it’s people. 11 years after the defeat of the Taliban regime and the following war by the International Coalition Forces, the state of women’s rights in particular remains extremely poor…

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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...

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doc! photo magazine is a monthly Warsaw-based magazine devoted to contemporary photography. The February issue (No. 8) highlights the work of Piotr Zbierski, winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2012, along with eight other portfolios. The next issue will be released on March 9.

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These lines are being written on the night of the “ Le Classico,” a football match between rivals Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille. It’s one of the most ugly events in sports: fluorescent blue jerseys, bling-bling owners, noise, money, and nothing much of interest playi...

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Founded as a non-profit in 2007 by a group in Santa Fe, NM (including David Chickey, Darius Himes and David Skolkin), Radius Books is dedicated to the art of book making at a time when the printed object is changing right before our very...

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In his new project "La Femme d'Argent” (The silver woman) Berlin based photographer Alexander Straulino reflects on the sculptural quality of bodies . He is using Polaroid technique in a very experimental and unusual way showing almost scientific re...

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My last interview with Australian photographer Carla Coulson was in 2009, the catalyst then, her book ‘Paris Tango’. This time we are talking about her third solo book, ‘Chasing A Dream’, a beautifully padded and bound edition spanning the past decade.

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