Islamabad today
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In 1962, the architecture practice Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli was commissioned to design and build part of the Ministries area of the new capital of West Pakistan, Islamabad, which was under construction according to Constantinos Doxiadis and Robert Matthew's master plan. Fifteen hundred architecture drawings and less than two years later, the buildings were completed. At(...)
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In 1962, the architecture practice Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli was commissioned to design and build part of the Ministries area of the new capital of West Pakistan, Islamabad, which was under construction according to Constantinos Doxiadis and Robert Matthew's master plan. Fifteen hundred architecture drawings and less than two years later, the buildings were completed. At some moments, five thousand workers were on site at the same time. Project manager Alberto Rosselli declared that the idea was not to transfer their Western knowledge to Pakistan, but to create a new Pakistan. Moved by this incredible project, where the personal stories of the Ponti and Rosselli families crossed paths against a backdrop of architectural and political history, Giovanna Silva traveled to Islamabad in 2020 with Paolo Rosselli, nephew of Gio Ponti and son of Alberto Rosselli. Silva's photographs show the buildings in their everyday public function, with a focus on the spaces as performed by their users. The book also features archival images of the building site and construction, and a narrative text by Paolo Rosselli tracing the story of the project and his reactions during his first visit to his father’s work in Islamabad.
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Originally self-published in 1985, Paul Graham’s renowned series, ‘Beyond Caring’, was made in the waiting rooms and corridors of the Social Security and Unemployment offices around the UK, documenting the long waits, queues and poor conditions of an overburdened system, to produce a powerful series of photographs conveying the hardship people experienced. Denied official(...)
Paul Graham: Beyond caring, New edition
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Originally self-published in 1985, Paul Graham’s renowned series, ‘Beyond Caring’, was made in the waiting rooms and corridors of the Social Security and Unemployment offices around the UK, documenting the long waits, queues and poor conditions of an overburdened system, to produce a powerful series of photographs conveying the hardship people experienced. Denied official permission to make the work, Graham’s photographs were taken discreetly, usually without looking through the camera, resulting in a spatial disorientation that emphasised the unmoored distress of vulnerable citizens. The work shocked many on its release – leading Magnum photographers were outraged by its use of colour in a classic documentary topic, while others celebrated how it straddled the world of activism and art (it was exhibited at both Trade Union conferences and the Museum of Modern Art, New York). Graham forged a fresh form of engaged photography, mixing elements of social documentary, ‘new colour’ and reportage to create a striking body of work that endures to this day. Many decades have passed since their making in 1984, but these images have grown not only in photographic importance, but also as a unique historic record of the mid-1980s unemployment crisis in the UK.
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Silent Blocks
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Au printemps 2020, à Toronto, David Cayley, ancien journaliste scientifique pour la radio publique canadienne et écrivain, s'interroge sur la pandémie. En s'appuyant sur sa connaissance des travaux philosophiques de son ami Ivan illich, il se demande si ' l'ontologie de systèmes' dans laquelle nous vivons n'aurait-elle pas créé cet état de crise ? Il alerte sur une forme(...)
Silent Blocks
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Au printemps 2020, à Toronto, David Cayley, ancien journaliste scientifique pour la radio publique canadienne et écrivain, s'interroge sur la pandémie. En s'appuyant sur sa connaissance des travaux philosophiques de son ami Ivan illich, il se demande si ' l'ontologie de systèmes' dans laquelle nous vivons n'aurait-elle pas créé cet état de crise ? Il alerte sur une forme de négation de la mort, laquelle 'dissimule tout le reste, à savoir l'expérimentation à grande échelle du contrôle social et de l'obéissance sociale, la légitimation de la téléprésence comme mode de sociabilité et d'enseignement, l'accroissement de la surveillance, la normalisation de la biopolitique et le renforcement des mesures préventives comme fondements de la vie sociale. À Paris au printemps de cette même année, avec l'instauration du confinement pour juguler la pandémie du coronavirus, la rue s'est soudainement vidée. Le dispositif sanitaire adossé à un dispositif policier aura permis au pouvoir une montée en régime – sans rencontrer de grande résistance – dans sa politique sécuritaire initiée des années plus tôt avec notamment le plan Vigipirate. Le photographe Myr Muratet a documenté, à sa façon, la ville silencieuse.
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Les bords réels
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La guerre de Bosnie s'est achevée il y a 25 ans et le pays semble plongé dans une léthargie où chacun erre dans son époque et ses croyances. Les morts et les vivants, les vétérans du conflit et la jeunesse née dans ses décombres. La Bosnie ravive les vieux démons, joue avec le feu. Ce n’est plus la guerre, ce n’est pas la paix. Comment traduire en photographie le(...)
Les bords réels
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La guerre de Bosnie s'est achevée il y a 25 ans et le pays semble plongé dans une léthargie où chacun erre dans son époque et ses croyances. Les morts et les vivants, les vétérans du conflit et la jeunesse née dans ses décombres. La Bosnie ravive les vieux démons, joue avec le feu. Ce n’est plus la guerre, ce n’est pas la paix. Comment traduire en photographie le sentiment étrange d’un temps qui n’en finit pas de mourir, la violence sourde qui traverse le pays ? En ce sens, ce travail est un état du temps, plus qu’un état des lieux. « Les Bords réels » est à l’image de la Bosnie aujourd'hui : fragmentaire, fantomatique, déboussolée, vibrante et chaotique à la fois. En investissant ce territoire, ce sont les limites même de sa pratique – la photographie documentaire – qu'Adrien Selbert défie ici.
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The Milanese photographer and long-distance traveler captures the light (and visual contrasts) of Rome while walking through the city. Giovanna Silva arrived in Rome in January of 2020 and immediately set off walking. Following the suggestions of her personal guides – artists, writers, intellectuals, Romans of all shapes and idioms – she began to get to know the city. She(...)
Giovanna Silva: Roma, never walk on crowded streets
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The Milanese photographer and long-distance traveler captures the light (and visual contrasts) of Rome while walking through the city. Giovanna Silva arrived in Rome in January of 2020 and immediately set off walking. Following the suggestions of her personal guides – artists, writers, intellectuals, Romans of all shapes and idioms – she began to get to know the city. She returned to certain places over and over again, overtaken by meticulous and neurotic attention, moved by an unexpected passion for light. Tucked between her photographs is a text by Alberto Savinio about the magic of walking and discovering a foreign place.
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Epstein began his latest series in 2017 at Standing Rock, where thousands protested the installation of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Sioux land. Over four years, he charted other contested lands from Pennsylvania and Hawaii to the Mexican border, as well as land loss through wildfires and flooding due to egregious environmental negligence. In keeping with Epstein’s(...)
Mitch Epstein: Property rights
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Epstein began his latest series in 2017 at Standing Rock, where thousands protested the installation of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Sioux land. Over four years, he charted other contested lands from Pennsylvania and Hawaii to the Mexican border, as well as land loss through wildfires and flooding due to egregious environmental negligence. In keeping with Epstein’s 50-year exploration of American life, ''Property rights'' questions the relationship between institutions, civil rights and the rights of nature itself. Acknowledging our bodies and lives as our most fundamental property, the book examines other forms of trespass and destruction in an elegy to the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre, and in photographs of Black Lives Matter protests during COVID-19. ''Property rights'' includes the voices of activists Epstein interviewed while making this deeply personal and political work. In a time of alarming division, the book describes diverse communities in a common fight against politicians and plutocrats willing to sacrifice the people’s well-being.
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Lee Friedlander
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One of the masters of contemporary photography, Lee Friedlander has dedicated his career to the documentation of everyday life in the United States. His images are characterized by a composition that utilizes the urban geometry of storefronts and street signs—and later car windows and telephone poles—as a framing technique. This catalog, published in conjunction with a(...)
Lee Friedlander
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One of the masters of contemporary photography, Lee Friedlander has dedicated his career to the documentation of everyday life in the United States. His images are characterized by a composition that utilizes the urban geometry of storefronts and street signs—and later car windows and telephone poles—as a framing technique. This catalog, published in conjunction with a retrospective organized by the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, surveys the wide scope of Friedlander’s career from the 1960s to today. High-quality reproductions of all of the exhibited works are supplemented by text written by curator Carlos Gollonet and photographer Nicholas Nixon. The volume serves as a comprehensive guide to Friedlander’s body of work, with personal insight provided through an interview between Maria Friedlander and gallery director Jeffrey Fraenkel, as well as a chronology of the artist’s life by his grandson Giancarlo T. Roma.
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Inspired by artists like Edward Curtis and Charles Schulz, who devoted their lives to a single objective, Rudy VanderLans continues his pursuit to create a consistent body of work of postcard-size images, rendering a comprehensive portrait of California in the early part of the 21st century. VanderLans, who is often drawn to places with fantastical names- like Oleander(...)
Rudy Vanderlans: Oleander sunset
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Inspired by artists like Edward Curtis and Charles Schulz, who devoted their lives to a single objective, Rudy VanderLans continues his pursuit to create a consistent body of work of postcard-size images, rendering a comprehensive portrait of California in the early part of the 21st century. VanderLans, who is often drawn to places with fantastical names- like Oleander Sunset- wanders about California's back roads with eyes wide open. Without theorizing, or searching for subjects, he allows himself to be receptive to the world around him and discovers beauty in the most ordinary locales. Like the men who named the cities and towns he visits, VanderLans makes the mundane seem less so, and in the process shows us what’s been overlooked. "Oleander Sunset" juxtaposes single images on opposing pages, setting up dynamic formal and contextual interactions through contrasting, complementing and reiteration. The book is interspersed with a number of fold-out panoramas, placing the viewer smack in the middle of the author's habitual stamping ground.
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Teddy girls
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'Teddy Girls' brings together, for the first time in one publication, images taken by Ken Russell of this scarcely documented subculture. Taken around London in January 1955 and published in the Picture Post on June 4th that year, these photographs are a testament to the supremely stylish young women depicted. The style of the Teddy Girls, like that of the Teddy Boys,(...)
Teddy girls
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'Teddy Girls' brings together, for the first time in one publication, images taken by Ken Russell of this scarcely documented subculture. Taken around London in January 1955 and published in the Picture Post on June 4th that year, these photographs are a testament to the supremely stylish young women depicted. The style of the Teddy Girls, like that of the Teddy Boys, grew out of a trend for Edwardian influenced fashion in post-World War II London. However, these women should be seen as more than a feminine facsimile of their male counterparts and Russell’s images document the ingenuity and complexity of their sartorial choices. As well as recording the style of the Teddy Girls, these images also provide a snapshot of London in 1955, a city in flux, still rebuilding itself after the damage inflicted by war. An essay by the fashion historian, Mairi MacKenzie, considers the cultural history and context within which these women lived and the photos were taken.
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Une rétrospective de la production photographique de W. Ronis durant ses voyages en RDA dans les années 1960, accomplis en vue de réaliser des reportages. Les clichés exposés rendent compte de la vie quotidienne en Allemagne, de l'autre côté du mur.
Willy Ronis en RDA : la vie avant tout; 1960-1967
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Une rétrospective de la production photographique de W. Ronis durant ses voyages en RDA dans les années 1960, accomplis en vue de réaliser des reportages. Les clichés exposés rendent compte de la vie quotidienne en Allemagne, de l'autre côté du mur.
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