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from a wide angle

Thursday, September 8, 2011

This week a host of writers have come forward to say something about the events of 11 September 2001, and to provide some kind of account of the events since. This one looks at the event obliquely. Is it is easier to write when you aren’t staring into the abyss? Or is it just that a [...]

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RIZING AND SHINING

Friday, June 3, 2011

It’s been 4 years since mono.kultur #11 featured American photographer David Lachapelle. That was 2007, two years after his documentary Rize came out and at the time he was seeking a clear break from his past as a commercial fashion and celebrity photographer. His style couldn’t have been more different than that of Ryan McGinley, [...]

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ROAD TRIPPING, AGAIN

Thursday, May 12, 2011

We’ve mentioned David Lynch’s brilliant Interview Project before, but it’s time to revisit, since Lnych’s son Austin and director Jason S. are currently on the road in nowhere else but Germany. Every Monday sees a new episode of random encounters with German strangers, giving some entertaining and at times perplexing insights into the German psyche. [...]

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The Refugee Hotel

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Print is still a vibrant medium these days (or so we’ve noticed), but to remain so it needs to take advantage of the very forces that threaten it. Or force. Or, really, the Internet. And, as the ongoing The Refugee Hotel Book Project demonstrates, it can really be quite easy.

The Refugee Hotel is a hauntingly [...]

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KEEP CALM CARRY ON

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

If you haven’t seen it yet, then it’s high time to catch up: Inside Job is a brilliant documentary summing up the economic crisis of recent years. Narrated by Matt Damon and perfectly crafted, it breaks down the global financial meltdown into its singular components: how we got there, what happened, why it happened, the [...]

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Views from the Road

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Magnum Photos has an interesting project in the works. Starting May 12th, they are sending five photographers (this time, Susan Meiselas, Jim Goldberg, Christopher Anderson, and our favorites, Alec Soth and Mikhael Subotzky) on the first of a series of  road trips around America. Although the project site doesn’t yet have much information, Postcards From [...]

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Benjamin Lowy’s Perspectives

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Recently selected by William Eggleston as winner of the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Benjamin Lowy’s Iraq | Perspectives series is one of my favorite projects I’ve seen this year. A conflict photographer, Lowy began Perspectives in 2005 while covering the war in Iraq, experiencing its landscape mainly through [...]

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SUBCONSCIOUS ART

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Great short film from 2002 by Matt McCormick, narrated by mono.kultur interviewee Miranda July. McCormick’s first feature film Some Days Are Better Than Others will be out this spring, featuring Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag and James Mercer of the Shins and Broken Bells. I like the poster.

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Mikhael Subotzky

Sunday, February 13, 2011

From David Goldblatt’s arresting portrayal of its political complexities and social contradictions, and the Bang-Bang Club’s searing coverage of its township violence, to Guy Tillim’s portraits of day-to-day life in its cities, South Africa has produced a tremendous body of photographic work. Mikhael Subotzky, an immensely talented Cape Town-based photographer, rightly deserves his place in [...]

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HOW ARE YOU

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Radiator Film invites you to celebrate the world premiere of the film How Are You next Tuesday, February 15 at the Weekend Club in Berlin:
The documentary film How Are You by Jannik Splidsboel, with its world premiere at the Berlinale these days, is about the two now very famous Danish-Norwegian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar [...]

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