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‘SAY_____’

Friday, September 13, 2013

Since the advent of industrialization, man has belabored the destruction of human identity in the technological sinkhole, enmeshed in metal, wires, and electricity and ever growing to the beat of Moore’s law.  The insistent currency of interchangeable events, status, and messages meted out by social networking sites presently fill the absence of the harder personal [...]

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‘ALL WE EVER SEE OF STARS ARE THEIR OLD PHOTOGRAPHS’

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

For those who have not heard of it yet, Prix Pictet is the premier international photography competition focusing on the  environment and sustainability.  Founded in 2008 by Pictet & Cie, it rewards the most outstanding photographers based on the annual theme–one with CHF 100,000 and another with a photo commission (the honor aptly named the Commission). [...]

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PSYCHEDELIC MARVELS

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

If you thought that psychedelic cover art was a thing of the past (hold on, make that cover art, full stop) – think again, because everything is ripe for a comeback sooner or later these days. Enter Leif Podhajsky, the man and mind behind open-mouthed faux marble effects, mind-boggling colour twistings and all kinds of [...]

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YOU MADE THAT

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

An abstract-expressionist web drawing app for the New York Times Magazine by Christoph Niemann and Jon Huang – try it and enjoy!!!

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IMAGE ATLAS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Image Atlas is a recent project by Taryn Simon, and her first venture into the digital realm, but bearing all her signature interests in politics, society, cultural differences and visual representation. Based on a simple premise: if we experience the world more and more through the Internet, and through images in particular, what impact [...]

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Vacationing documentationing

Saturday, January 19, 2013

If you don’t know what to say, make a picture of it, one might argue. But there lies beauty in conformity, too. That’s what we like to take from this collection of vacation proof. In fact, it’s the smartphone way to document leisure time in the sun, either on the beach or at the pool, [...]

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Unself Portrait

Monday, November 5, 2012
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THE SHUTTERED SOCIETY

Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Berlinische Galerie stages the world’s first comprehensive exhibition of art photography in the GDR. Twenty years after the Wall, The Shuttered Society identifies traditions and trends while illustrating shifts in visual idiom and theme.
The retrospective thus contributes to the present discourse about photography that has unfolded in recent years with a flurry of exhibitions [...]

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DESIRE DESIESE DEVISE

Monday, October 8, 2012

If you are in Hamburg these days, don’t miss this excellent exhibition of Monica Bonvicini’s prolific production of drawings, collage and textual work at the Falckenberg Collection! A visit of the show is possible through an advanced reservation for a guided tour here.
Excerpt from the website of the Falckenberg Collection:
Monica Bonvicini, renowned for striking installations, [...]

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Wednesday Vid

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The incredible Kahlil Joseph has blown our minds once (and so hard, so hard), no, twice (well: three times), and has now done it again.

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