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
© Aisha Zeijpveld, Thomas Rosenboom. Portraits of writer Thomas Rosenboom for Volkskrant Magazine. I find Aisha Zeijpveld’s work undeniably captivating but what first caught my attention was the particular way I found it being promoted at Ignant. Here’s an excerpt: Aisha does all her editing by hand. No photoshop, no easy tricks, just scissors and…
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© Jill Quigley, Untitled, from the series Cottages of Quigley’s Point. © Jill Quigley, Untitled, from the series Cottages of Quigley’s Point. © Oliver Smith, Untitled, from the series Looking for Ghosts. © Oliver Smith, Untitled, from the series Looking for Ghosts. © Tom Marsh, Untitled, from the series Neurotypicals, 2014. © Tom Marsh, Untitled,…
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Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Temps difficiles, 1860, épreuve à l’albumine argentique. What follows is an excerpt (the Conclusion) of Daniel A. Novak‘s article “Labors of Likeness: Photography and Labor in Marx’s Capital“, published in Criticism, 2007, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 125 – 150. Reading Marx alongside the discourse of nineteenth-century photography demonstrates that Marx’s theory…
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© Daniel Silva, Untitled, from the series Retuna Nature. © Daniel Silva, Untitled, from the series Retuna Nature. © Liz Orton, Untitled, from the series Natural Ideas for the Human Mind. © Liz Orton, Untitled, from the series Natural Ideas for the Human Mind. © Alexandra Lethbridge, Untitled, from the series Smoke and Mirrors, 2012.…
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