LUIS BUÑUEL: L’Age d’Or (1930)
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٠ ‘Never have we had access to so much information about each other, and never has the information been so unreliable.’ ٠
“In this project I have downloaded pictures of ‘friends’ that I only know through the Internet, and given them a new context. The persons are only visible through a digital representation, while the surroundings are as analog as possible. The sceneries are photographed places that invited to interaction – places that missed the company of…
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٠ Music & Photography: Saturday Morning listening to Sunday Morning or the then-portrait now turned memory-proof ٠
portrait of Lou Reed by Mick Rock portrait of Lou Reed, David Bowie and Iggy Pop by Mick Rock portrait of Lou Reed and Andy Warhol by Stephen Shore portrait of Lou Reed and Andy Warhol by Stephen Shore portrait of Lou Reed by Mikael Jasnsson
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٠ Douglas Nicolson’s Mobile Darkroom ٠
© Douglas Nicolson, Wet Plate image of Bicycle Trailer Darkbox both these images by Alice Bernardo © Douglas Nicolson, Nigel and Fernando were out for a Bank Holiday cycle from Bethnal Green and stopped to ask about the strange looking structure. “The Wet Plate collodion process is an early photographic process which involves the use…
Read More٠ Surrealists’ anarchist rib ٠
The preliminary declaration of the anarchist surrealists, published in 1952, in Le Libertaire, the then organ of the French Anarchist Federation: ” WE SURREALISTS HAVE NEVER RELENTED in our abhorrence of the State-Work-Religion trinity, an abhorrence that has often brought us into the company of the comrades from the Anarchist Federation … By our reckoning,…
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٠ Les Automatistes and the ‘resplendent anarchy’ ٠
© Françoise Sullivan, Danse de la Neige (Dance in the Snow), 1948. 17 black & white photographs by Maurice Perron “[…] The society that was born of faith will die at the hands of reason… The fatal disintegration o f our collective moral strength into strictly individual and sentimental power has undermined the once formidable…
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٠ Love & Chance ٠
Chance having been defined as “the encounter of an external causality and an internal finality,” we have to ascertain whether a certain kind of “encounter” – in this case the essential one, that is, by definition the most subjectivized one of all – can be considered under the angle of chance without our immediately seeming…
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٠ Topor et la ‘Loi sur les Aliénés’ ٠
all illustrations by Roland Topor “l’homme-citoyen est propriétaire parce que la faculté de posséder appartient à la sphère des libertés individuelles, mais il est libre dans la mesure où il a la propriété de sa pensée, et qu’il dispose en propre d’une capacité reflexive autonome. En conséquence, c’est la propriété intellectuelle, découlant de la théorie…
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٠ ‘Authenticity’ as a category of Euro-American invention ٠
© Jimmie Durham, Selfportrait, mixed media, 1986 © Alan Michelson,Up-Biblum God (detail),1987, mixed-media installation as part of the exhibition” Wet he People,”Artists Space,New York. A MAP OF THE POSTCOLONIAL QUEST FOR THE OTHER’S ‘AUTHENTICITY’ AUTHENTICITY DIVERSITY COMMONALITY CULTURAL DIFFERENCE CONVENTIONS OF DISPLAY MAINSTREAM INSTITUTIONS EXPECTATIONS AESTHETIC AND POLITICAL STRATEGIES WESTERN AND NON-WESTERN POSTMODERNIST AESTHETIC DISCOURSE…
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٠ Ochi Reyes: a photographic landscape of absence ٠
© Ochi Reyes, all photographs from the series Mother “I have gone through the traces my mother left behind since she passed away almost a year ago now: her clothes, her shopping lists, the notes she wrote on her medication, her unfinished pieces of sewing and her photographs. In this search I have been using…
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٠ The Ethics of Visuality – How a Face Looks ٠
© Elad Lassry, Weld, 2011, foil on silver gelatin print, aluminum frame, 10 x 8.5 x 1.5 inches © Elad Lassry, Untitled (Poles), 2010, foil on c-print, painted frame, 10 x 8 x 1.5 inches © Elad Lassry, Felicia, 2008, c-print, painted frame, 14 x 11 x 1.5 inches © Elad Lassry, Michael, 2008, c-print,…
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٠ Andrei Liankevich ٠
© Andrei Liankevich, all photographs from the series Goodbye, Motherland, 2011 The “Goodbye, Motherland” project explores the attitude to WWII in Belarus. Belarus has only one ideology – war ideology. Belarus Independence Day is the day when the capital was freed from the Nazi occupation. The main streets in the capital are named after war…
Read More٠ Vincent Delbrouck ٠
© Vincent Delbrouck, all photographs from the series as dust alights
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٠ Christopher Marques: working-through the postmemory trauma ٠
all photographs © Christopher Marques, from the project O Álbum/The Album, 2013 Christopher’s work revolves around the quest for identity. It’s a postmodern symptom. The industrialization and the instant access to difference places, languages, faces and times, tends to confuse people. As we grow up, it’s inevitable to go through a phase where we find…
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٠ F for Fake, M for Masterpiece ٠
٠ Tobias Zielony’s portrait of young swagger ٠
More of his work can be seen here
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