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
I Lensmen‘s post about documentary photographer Mitch Epstein. © Mitch Epstein, Topanga Canyon, California 1974 (Recreation America). © Mitch Epstein, Playing Cards in a Chicken Market, Hanoi, Vietnam 1993 (Vietnam: A Book of Changes). II doc! photo magazine doc! photo magazine and contra doc! are online publications devoted to documentary and fine art photography, respectively. III…
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I The Guardian‘s gallery showcasing some of their chosen music cover portraits that deserve to hang in a gallery II Giorgio Agamben‘s lecture (in english) on the subject of Resistance in Art, from last year @ EGS. III Finding a good blog is always a nice surprise. Here’s the OUTRAGEOUS blog about art out of…
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I A good article by Sola Agustsson @ Alternet: Why the Contemporary Art World Is Insufferable, Corrupted by the Super-Rich II A good book: European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche, by Frank M. Turner III A curious article about a new Milgram-like experiment concludes “Those who are described as “agreeable, conscientious personalities” are more likely…
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…these were part of the things I found forgotten. Martin Kippenberger in his studio posing for the series Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa), Vienna, 1996. Photos by Elfie Semotan. © Elfie Semotan. Photograph part of the ‘forgotten’ article The Expansion of the Instant: Photography, Anxiety, Infinity, by Kim Schoen, in X-Tra.…
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