N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
© Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2010. © Jon Rafman, New Age Demanded (The heart was a place made fast), 2013. © Owen Kydd, Pico Boulevard (Nocturne), 2012. Regarding the exhibition “What Is a Picture?”, curated by Carol Squiers and opening today at the International Center of Photography, Philip Gefter wrote the article “The Next Big Picture”…
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© Christine Gensheimer, Hunde, 2007. Photo-collage. © Christine Gensheimer, Eberhards, 2010. Photo-collage. © Maria Kassab, Fauve. Paper collage. © Maria Kassab, Sans-titre. Paper collage. © Maria Kassab, Slow This Bird Down, 2013. Photo-collage. © Isabel Reitemeyer, Herr A. und Frau I., 2008. Collage. © Isabel Reitemeyer, Frau L.. Collage. © Isabel Reitemeyer, Auf dem Arm.…
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© Andreas Nitschke, from Black Beauties © Andreas Nitschke, from Pro Kopf It was Andreas himself who directed me to his work and I’m glad he did so. I’m always happy to help promote work I enjoy seeing and which manages to add something to the problems I’m dealing with at the moment. Andreas’ work…
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* An elderly couple took a photograph each season in front of their house.
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© Alicia Rios, from A Temperate Manu (An Edible Garden). Photographs by Jesús Porteros. excerpt from a conversation between Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Alicia Rios + Christopher Winks, regarding the work A Temperate Menu firstly showed at the Centre for Performance Research, Cardiff, Wales (UK), in 1994. Published in TDR (1988-), Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer,…
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© Victoria Will, tintype portraits at Sundance film festival. There is no denying that alternative photographic processes are fashionable these days. I’m sure there are people reflecting upon this at the very moment, writing articles and giving conferences on the very same issue. As for me, due to an investigation regarding ‘authenticity’, I got to…
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* the title references the following post: ‘A Woman’s work is never done‘ © David Catá, from the series Ni Conmigo ni sin mí (Neither with me nor without me), 2011 © David Catá, from the series Ni Conmigo ni sin mí (Neither with me nor without me), 2011 * * * * * ©…
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© Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Greedy Schmuck), 2012 at Art Basel Miami. It’s a shame that the the video here posted has no english translation. A lot of interested people won’t understand what Angry Avelina is saying. Still, it is worth a post, so I’ll try to resume the reasons for such a hype about this.…
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This is not one of my usual posts. In conversation with Rotem Rozental, the editor of the Shpilman Institute for Photography blog, she suggested I should take a look at a couple of her posts and that’s how I came to encounter Yaron Lapid‘s work. Featured here is Rotem’s conversation with him, along with images…
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© Sanne De Wilde, all photographs from The Dwarf Empire After reading Sanne’s words about this photographic journey I was made very aware that she knew about the perversities and ethical dilemmas that would be highlighted by her choices. The cult and fascination for the ‘exotic other’, the ‘savage’, the ‘outsider’ has been an issue…
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© Alan Thomson, all photographs from the series Bus Portraits […] How was a man different from an individual? A person born before a certain date, a man – had he not eyes? had he not hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you pricked him, he bled and if you tickled him, he laughed.…
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© Eliza Bennett, all photographs from A woman’s work is never done Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, traditionally employed…
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This is not perhaps the place for a prolonged analysis, but a few notes on what’s called “the art world” might seem to be in order. It is a common perception, not untrue, that at least since the ‘20s the art world has been in a kind of permanent institutionalized crisis. One could even say…
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movie poster Spike Jonze’s new movie “Her” is a must see! First and foremost because it is an original script, both in the sense that it is new and also in the sense that it is unique, thought-provoking. Because the work is Spike’s own vision of the sort of relationships human will develop with machines…
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© Nádia Rodrigues Ribeiro, Sem título (Untitled) – 11.07.12, from Flora. Negative in chromogenic paper, chromogenic process, unique print 12x9cm. © Nádia Rodrigues Ribeiro, Sem título (Untitled) – 20.07.12, from Flora. Negative in chromogenic paper, chromogenic process, unique print 12x9cm. © Nádia Rodrigues Ribeiro, 215 Horas (215 Hours), from Flora, 2013. Diasec Print, 90x60cm. Sofia…
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Público is a portuguese daily newspaper, the most leftist of all. Although having lost some of the quality articles it was known for, affected by the general crises of the media itself and the economy as well, it is still the newspaper I read, although now only in its online version. A couple of days…
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