Liz Steketee’s website here.
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Therapeutic Photography (part II)
Caption (image above): untitled, from the project ‘Woman’ (work-in-progress), by Sofia Silva. Collage with passport photographs (blurred for this occasion) and drawings. Belle comme une image (Pretty as Picture), by Emilie Danchin About the project: “Pretty as a Picture, photo exhibition, is the fruit of a series of social and phototherapeutic workshops, conducted by Emilie…
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Therapeutic Photography (part I)
Caption (image above): Digital offset reproduction of an instant portrait of my mother and her best friend Lena, painted with crayons; 1 of many tests. (by Sofia Silva, 2018). Starting this series of posts about therapeutic photography and authors working with it, I’d like to make some very brief distinctions between phototherapy, therapeutic photography, art…
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part IX)
Caption (image above): therapeutic photography + scanography (by Sofia Silva). More about Enoc Perez‘s work here. Enoc Perez’s new photo collages engage with social media, appropriation, and the artist’s consistent and inventive search for new forms. Sourcing images from the internet of minimally dressed or nude women, from amateur selfies to more professional photos, Perez…
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Intimacy, ‘Extimacy’ and the art of Joanna Piotrowska
In chapter XI (Courtly love as anamorphosis) of Lacan‘s Seminar VII (The Ethics of Psychoanalysis), Lacan suggests the term “extimacy” (extimité) to talk about the “intimate exteriority” that is at the core of the Thing. The Thing (das Ding) is a concept that Lacan develops from Freud to identify a primordial element that has been lost and…
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≡ John Brill’s Lynchian Universe in photographs ≡
John Brill, Self-portrait, Chihuanhuan Desert, Mexico,1987 (1987-A), printed 2013 Pigment print on rag, with UV-shielding varnish. John Brill, Trish, 2013. Still from video. VHS tape; eight hours. Every Boy’s Dream, 2013. Installation views. “John Brill’s faux spirit-photographs are enough to make you believe in ghosts, extraterrestrials and visitations of all kinds. Mr. Brill, who is…
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٠ The serial love & loss of everydayness ٠
* An elderly couple took a photograph each season in front of their house.
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٠ David Catá: a human life is never done ٠
* 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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٠ The political function of landscape-family photographs in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict ٠
© Gil Pasternak, Esther Pasternak, 1970s. Esther Pasternak collection of family photographs, 1946–99. Description: The defiant lion is a tombstone monument erected in 1932 to commemorate a group of eight Jewish pioneer settlers who, as the Israeli version of the story goes, fell to Arab village militias in the settlement of Tel Hai in 1920…
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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 Duarte Amaral Netto: It’s all real, you just need to give up on your anguish (III of III) ٠
Part I of essay here and part II here © Duarte Amaral Netto, Z (France, April 1940), 2012 65×50 cm Framed, Inkjet on Fine Art, Ed. 2 + 1 AP Storytelling isn’t far from the discursive play, on the contrary. Martha Langford would call it an oral-photographic method of telling stories, in the sense that…
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٠ Duarte Amaral Netto: It’s all real, you just need to give up on your anguish (II of III) ٠
Part I of essay here © Duarte Amaral Netto, Ambient 4 (#3 e #5), 2004 48×130 cm. Lambda Print on Fuji Fine Art. Ed. 3 + 1 AP Before going on to explore Duarte’s recent exhibitions – The Polish Club Case (2011), Z (2012) and Selective Affinities (2013) – I’d like to take a brief…
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┐ Vies possibles et imaginaires └
© Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh & Rozenn Quéré, from the project Vies possibles et imaginaires “This is the story of four strong and feisty women, exiled to the four corners of the globe; four Palestinian-Lebanese sisters who have travelled through the history of the twentieth century. It is a story somewhere between documentary and fiction, biography and…
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© Duarte Maral Netto, untitled, from the project “Z”, 2012 © Duarte Maral Netto, untitled, from the project “Z”, 2012 Duarte’s new work is in a rare place between verity, intimacy and honesty and the exciting and self obsessed world of fiction. The narrative constructed is that of “Z”, a physician said to have gone…
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┐ Gunnel Wåhlstrand └
© Gunnel Wåhlstrand, © Gunnel Wåhlstrand, White Peacocks, 2007/2009 109 x 160 cm, ink-wash on paper “For eight years, Wåhlstrand has worked exclusively with a kind of re-development of private photographs, using black ink and water, a precise and time-consuming technique that she masters to perfection. The earlier body of motives consisted of her father’s…
Read More┐ Nigel Grimmer └
© Nigel Grimmer, Julie, Golders Green,, from the series Roadkill Family Album, 2001 © Nigel Grimmer, Eric, Big Bend, from the series Roadkill Family Album, 2010 “Nigel Grimmer takes the conventions of family album snap photography and gives them a weird twist that is at times amusing and at others faintly unnerving. Here the self-conscious…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 