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KUSTEPE

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Kuştepe is an area in Istanbul where gentrification is brutally  knocking the door. Architect Uğur Tanyeli and photographer Engin Gerçek visited the homes of the dwellers, alas, whose spaces won’t be seen in the pages of FvF or, say, any decoration magazine.  

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166400 weekends

Friday, March 28, 2014

It’s the weekend, and this 3200 year old tree has seen 166400 saturday nights. Guess this veteran knows to chill. Enjoy the break, even if you are not ‘aus dem selben Holz geschnitzt’.

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SARAH MOON

Friday, March 21, 2014

The timeless and painterly photographs of Sarah Moon, truly makes a category of its own. From fashion photography to film, she has a library of mesmerizing image making behind her. The Michael Hoppen Gallery in London now shows some of her work in color until April 5th.
Micheal Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London SW3 3TD

Sarah Moon – [...]

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ALBUM MAN

Friday, March 14, 2014

Andrei Tarkovsky’s intense films, though numbering only seven across his almost quarter decade career, have cemented his place as one of cinema’s master craftsmen. Meditative, intimate, and often opaque, the films lack nothing in compelling narrative nor symbolic density.  Those not fond of slower films can still wonder at his meticulous composition, baptized by [...]

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MIYAKO ISHIUCHI

Monday, March 10, 2014

Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi has been awarded this year’s prestigious Hasselblad prize. The annual prize has since 1980 been awarded to international photographers such as Henri Cartier-Besson, Boris Mikhailov, Nan Goldin and Sophie Calle. This year’s winner Miyako Ishiuchi has for decades investigated abandoned places and what happens to a city, an apartment, or a [...]

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FOUND AGAIN

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Found again, following National Geographic Found.
A wealthy group of young people relax by a pool in California, 1940.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic.

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APOCALYPSE NOW?

Saturday, February 22, 2014

These apocalyptic appearing press photos of the latest events in the Ukraine were published yesterday by the spanish newspaper El País.
Immediately touched by the anarchic brutality of a real event I started to notice that the images would arouse a certain sense for surreal beauty just at the same time they had a shocking impact [...]

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Hidden Moms

Friday, February 14, 2014

I thought Radiohead’s new app could do the trick, I thought looking at images of the late Leonard Knight’s (rip) Salvation Mountain could do it, and I also tried Shoshi Games for longer periods of time, and yet this book keeps popping up in my mind: Under the title The Hidden Mother, Linda Fregni Nagler [...]

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BLACK BEAUTY

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Anyone who has ever spent a Sunday afternoon in Brixton will not dispute the fact that black hairdressers are artists. But if you think that’s exaggerating a little, check out Nigerian photographer J.D Okhai Ojeikere’s archive of nearly 1000 impressive hairstyles, no less, as a monument to hairy creativity. Sadly, Ojeikere passed away last weekend.
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PREHISTORICAL STONE ART MEETS 3-D

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

What drives the science team of the Pioti project to document each millimeter of the around 300.000 stone engravings of Valcamonica in the Italian Alps? Using highly potential 3D laser scanners they suceed in simulating a landscape of the ownknown and yet unsolved secrets behind those rock drawings, which were carved in sandstone around 12.000 [...]

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