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SPORT/ART

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Russian photographer Valery Katsuba began exploring the aesthetics of acrobatics and gymnastics in a series entitled Phiscultura. Inspired by photographs taken in the gymnasiums of St. Petersburg in 1901 that he discovered in the state archives, he recreated the style of the era to demonstrate the similarities between now and then.
“I naively imagined that fitness [...]

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WANDERING COMMA

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Opening tomorrow is Ryan McGinley’s new exhibition titled Wandering Comma (whatever that is supposed to mean…), at Alison Jacques Gallery in London, where he will be showing seven new large scale works – maybe for the first time functioning not so much as a series, but rather as single excerpts of his continuing practice of [...]

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STASILAND

Friday, November 18, 2011

Our friends at Ein Magazin über Orte recently published their latest issue dedicated to Berlin, and I’m really happy that they asked to include a few images of a series that I started working on quite a few years ago (and since then shamefully neglected), on the city’s layered past, in this case its East [...]

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LIGHTSCAPES

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Much talk has been made of art and fashion in these past few years, mostly in a superficial and unsatisfying way. More sense makes a recent collaboration by Belgian fashion designer Dries van Noten, cover star of our issue #20, and photographer James Reeve: when van Noten discovered Reeve’s beautiful Lightscapes, a series of night [...]

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More American Photographs

Thursday, October 27, 2011

The new More American Photographs exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco has a terrific premise. During the President Roosevelt’s New Deal Program during the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration commissioned photographers to document the nature and quality of American life. The images they came back with are ingrained [...]

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THE KING OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Friday, October 14, 2011

One of the most enduring memories I have of living in Bangkok is going to movies. Before films begin in Thailand, viewers must stand and listen to the national anthem, while photos of King Bhumibol Adulyadej gently fade on and off the screen. In the vast majority of these,  the King is with camera, around [...]

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MONO.KLUB #35: TARYN SIMON

Friday, September 23, 2011

Dear Friends,
with American photographer Taryn Simon just having opened her new and breathtaking exhibition A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters at the venerable Neue Nationalgalerie, we really could not miss the opportunity to invite our cover star of issue #15 to share the many ideas and issues at heart of her latest series. [...]

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A LIVING MAN DECLARED DEAD

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Impossibly good: already on show at the Tate Modern (and coming to the MoMA New York next year) Taryn Simon’s new series A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters will open at the Neue Nationalgalerie tomorrow night.
We couldn’t put it any more concise than Taryn’s own description: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other [...]

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MÄRZTAGE

Saturday, September 17, 2011

While Fukushima seems to have disappeared from the news, I now see it cropping up in all kinds of unexpected corners: in the pages of Purple, on blogs, on the shelves of art book stores. One great book I came across, however, was artist Thomas Neumann’s diary Märztage.
Having lived in Tokyo for several years, he [...]

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BARTHOLOMEW

Friday, September 16, 2011

It’s rare that I wish I could be in Paris right now, but tonight I would love to be able to pass by at the opening of Bartholomew, a photography group show curated by the ever wonderful photography magazine Je Suis Une Bande des Jeunes.
Bartholomew
September 16 to November 17 2011
Curated by Je Suis Une Bande [...]

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