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PHOTO FACTS

Thursday, March 22, 2012

As all creative fields, photography has changed at a breathtaking pace since the arrival of digital photography. We take four times as many photographs as only ten years ago, but even more surprising: ten percent of all photographs ever taken were taken during the past 12 months. These and more astounding numbers on photography you [...]

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LLIK YOUR IDOLS

Saturday, March 10, 2012

“Llik your Idols is an intimate survey of a VERY particular time in downtown NYC – the mid 1980s – when the fallout of a decrepit city manifested itself through the psyches of young and wild artists, musicians and filmmakers banging into each other in the scum drenched streets. Sex, drugs, violence and rock’n’roll took [...]

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STREETS SO EMPTY, SKATEBOARDING SO COOL

Friday, March 2, 2012

Skateboarding in the 1960s, photos by Bill Eppridge for LIFE magazine. Posted last week by HUH. magazine.

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DODO

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The first ever presentation and long-overdue rediscovery of Dodo’s graphic work provides a broad insight into an artistic life that was shaped by constant upheaval. Dodo, born in 1907 in Berlin as Dörte Clara Wolff, enjoyed a care-free upbringing in a wealthy Jewish milieu. Even as a young woman, she possessed an allure over those [...]

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TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

Thursday, February 23, 2012

The exhibition of  Boris Mikhailov is opening today at the Berlinische Galerie. The Ukranian artist’s works document the social disintegration, poverty, harshness of everyday life and the absurdity that comes with these situations, mostly in Soviet Union times. The exhibition shows a selection of works from earlier periods till now, including the works produced [...]

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NOSTALGIA

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Bringing the old and new memories together, feeling the nostalgia… The blog Dear Photograph makes you take out your old photos from the boxes and visit the places where they were taken.
‘I wish climbing up was as easy as the sliding down…’

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YOU KILLED ME FIRST

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses – the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course [...]

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PROTESTER 2.0

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2011 was the year of resistance. After revolutionary movements and occupy waves, it is the protester the Time magazine declares as the person of the year. The accompanying essay by Kurt Anderson gives an interesting insight.

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ALL THAT I AM

Friday, December 9, 2011

Lost for words so I’ll mention some words that I’m reading… I am really enjoying Anna Funder’s first novel, All That I Am. I also really enjoyed her first book Stasiland which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2004. I would even say that All that I Am is one of my favourite [...]

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Hammer and sickle disappear from central Berlin

Monday, November 21, 2011

Aeroflot throws its iconic Berlin signage out with the trash
One of the last hammer and sickle emblems in Berlin has disappeared from its prominent place in the centre of the city.
The hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism and the Soviet Union – was removed from most public buildings across the former [...]

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