Kenro Izu: Fuzhou
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Madong Ma’s heroic efforts to save parts of his hometown from flooding included physically disassembling, transporting and rebuilding many of the structures, along with some 10,000 trees, to a resort hundreds of miles away that he was constructing for this very purpose. Kenro Izu undertook to photograph the remaining majestic houses and other traditional structures of the(...)
Kenro Izu: Fuzhou
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Madong Ma’s heroic efforts to save parts of his hometown from flooding included physically disassembling, transporting and rebuilding many of the structures, along with some 10,000 trees, to a resort hundreds of miles away that he was constructing for this very purpose. Kenro Izu undertook to photograph the remaining majestic houses and other traditional structures of the ancient village for posterity. Fuzhou had become symbolic place, giving trace reminders of the life of people before the dam was built. This publication serves as a reminder that many places on Earth could serve as bridges to our past; but often instead are simply been obliterated in the interest of land development. Abandoned villages, ruined houses, and the last remaining residents – these are the monuments of humankind.
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Danielle Kwaaitaal photographs flowers submerged in water. Their colors get new names and become more vibrant, giving the flowers a surreal, magical appearance.
Danielle Kwaaitaal: Florilegium
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Danielle Kwaaitaal photographs flowers submerged in water. Their colors get new names and become more vibrant, giving the flowers a surreal, magical appearance.
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Serge Najjar: Beirut
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''Serge Najjar writes with lines and plays with shadows. [...] For me, some images evoke the utopia of the architects of the Enlightenment era, who had dreamt of them but never achieved them. Had they been photographers, they would have been compelled to compose with reality. Receptive to the variations of Time, Serge has not drawn on a memory of Beirut, – no pictures of(...)
Serge Najjar: Beirut
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''Serge Najjar writes with lines and plays with shadows. [...] For me, some images evoke the utopia of the architects of the Enlightenment era, who had dreamt of them but never achieved them. Had they been photographers, they would have been compelled to compose with reality. Receptive to the variations of Time, Serge has not drawn on a memory of Beirut, – no pictures of 'old stones' – but homed in on the realities of a changing city. [...] There was the Beirut of childhood dreams inside bomb shelters, then the city he fled due to the fighting, then finally the building sites of reconstruction. The discovery of his city would go on to establish his need to write with the light and to triumph over darkness. In his animated images, a fraction of a second signifies timelessness, and the image can no longer be conceived of without its author, a fleeting shadow or incarnate presence. Serge calls on us to follow him in these architectures of light, and to pass through the mirror of appearances. The history of Beirut calls for constant resurrection. The Beirut of Serge Najjar is the book of time dreamt, reinvented and then accomplished, the book of a captured time.'' - Ferrante Ferranti
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In ''Concrete mirages,'' Tom de Peyret freezes a seemingly abandoned setting, from the flashiest towers to empty dams, only a scattering of onlookers walk in the stifling heat. These towers emerge like golden totems from a landscape of which there is almost nothing left, as if we’ve been propelled into a dystopian world following some kind of catastrophe. Yet these(...)
Tom de Peyret: Concrete mirages
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In ''Concrete mirages,'' Tom de Peyret freezes a seemingly abandoned setting, from the flashiest towers to empty dams, only a scattering of onlookers walk in the stifling heat. These towers emerge like golden totems from a landscape of which there is almost nothing left, as if we’ve been propelled into a dystopian world following some kind of catastrophe. Yet these elements recount a true and shared history, that of the energy spent in an absurd and vain quest, the quasi-impossible construction of a city in the middle of the desert. It is the very story of the birth of Las Vegas and its urban unrest. The photographer’s minimalist work runs counter to the almost hysterical profusion that emanates from the cit The photographer’s minimalist work runs counter to the almost hysterical profusion that emanates from the city. Between vertical madness and horizontal vertigo, Tom de Peyret paints a unique and stellar portrait of Sin City.
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Phyllis Ma: Special nothing
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In a supermarket in Berlin, wandering through aisle after aisle of processed meats, the artist Phyllis Ma conceived of Special Nothing, a collection of travel photos that take the form of still lifes. To Ma, ''special nothings'' are those everyday objects that, on the right day, or in the right moment, are sources of pure delight: a very hairy flower; a block of head(...)
Phyllis Ma: Special nothing
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In a supermarket in Berlin, wandering through aisle after aisle of processed meats, the artist Phyllis Ma conceived of Special Nothing, a collection of travel photos that take the form of still lifes. To Ma, ''special nothings'' are those everyday objects that, on the right day, or in the right moment, are sources of pure delight: a very hairy flower; a block of head cheese the size and shape of an iPhone; a gherkin that looks especially perverse. If you pay attention, you can find these special nothings in your home or on your block, but we tend to be more attuned to them when we’re in an unfamiliar place. In a new country, the most mundane sights and tasks are often fascinating, difficult, and strange: doing laundry, boarding a bus, buying groceries. But it’s in supermarkets, with their promise of familiarity — the same bright overhead lighting, neat aisles, and row of checkout counters can be found the world over — where things become most uncanny. In today’s global economy, you can visit a supermarket in any major city and find many of the same goods and brands that you would in your hometown. And yet everything isn’t the same. Refrigeration practices differ, labels confuse. You are seduced by a product’s packaging, want to buy it badly, but then realize you’re not even sure what type of food it is. This feeling of wonderment is at the heart of Ma’s fantastical aesthetic. Created in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Mexico City and New York, ''Special nothing'' is a unique travel diary, a distillation of those moments when the commonplace and the strange coalesce, turn into something magical, surreal.
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British photographerTariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes ("Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People"). Its followers are known as ''Sapeurs'' (''Sapeuses'' for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they(...)
Tariq Zaidi: Sapeurs, Ladies and gentlemen of the Congo
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British photographerTariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes ("Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People"). Its followers are known as ''Sapeurs'' (''Sapeuses'' for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars – turning heads, bringing ''joie de vivre'' to their communities and defying their circumstances. Traditionally passed down through the male line, many Congolese women and their children have recently begun donning designer suits. As Papa Wemba (1949–2016, Congolese singer and fashion icon who popularized Sape) once said: ''White people invented the clothes, but we make an art of it.''
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In ''Out in the streets,'' German photographer Elisabeth Neudörfl (born 1968) records the dystopian state of Hong Kong at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and after the 2019–20 pro-democracy protest movement waned, inventorying closed shops, deserted streets, metro stations and layers of graffiti.
Elisabeth Neudörfl: Out in the streets
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In ''Out in the streets,'' German photographer Elisabeth Neudörfl (born 1968) records the dystopian state of Hong Kong at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and after the 2019–20 pro-democracy protest movement waned, inventorying closed shops, deserted streets, metro stations and layers of graffiti.
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Futurs antérieurs
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''Futurs antérieurs'' est une monographie de l’artiste Jacqueline Salmon. Elle reprend près de quarante années de création photographique que l’artiste a revisité. Elle recompose, double pages après double page, son propre parcours comme une réinterprétation quasi musicale. Elle livre au lecteur les travaux qu’elle a jugés les plus importants dans la construction de son(...)
Futurs antérieurs
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''Futurs antérieurs'' est une monographie de l’artiste Jacqueline Salmon. Elle reprend près de quarante années de création photographique que l’artiste a revisité. Elle recompose, double pages après double page, son propre parcours comme une réinterprétation quasi musicale. Elle livre au lecteur les travaux qu’elle a jugés les plus importants dans la construction de son œuvre pouvant se répondre d’une période à une autre. Des textes de l’artiste, chacun dédié à un projet spécifique, un peu comme un journal de voyage jours après jours, émailleront l’ouvrage, donnant des clés pour entrer dans les différentes séries et mettant en évidence ce qui ne se voit jamais : le soutènement autobiographique de l’ensemble de son œuvre.
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James Barnor : the roadmaker
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A partir d'un corpus d'images réalisées entre les années 1950 et 1980, en Angleterre et au Ghana, l'ouvrage présente le travail de J. Barnor, axé sur l'art du portrait et la photographie documentaire, tout en éclairant la notion d'afro-modernité que portent ses oeuvres.
James Barnor : the roadmaker
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A partir d'un corpus d'images réalisées entre les années 1950 et 1980, en Angleterre et au Ghana, l'ouvrage présente le travail de J. Barnor, axé sur l'art du portrait et la photographie documentaire, tout en éclairant la notion d'afro-modernité que portent ses oeuvres.
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Des portraits de membres de trois communautés d'Amérique du Nord (Amérindiens, Africains-Américains et Mennonites), réalisés en utilisant les codes de la photographie anthropométrique en usage dans le système colonial à la fin du XIXe siècle, qu'elle altère afin de les déconstruire. La photographe questionne la violence sociétale héritée de la hiérarchisation des races et(...)
We were never meant to survive / Nous n'étions pas censées survivre
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Des portraits de membres de trois communautés d'Amérique du Nord (Amérindiens, Africains-Américains et Mennonites), réalisés en utilisant les codes de la photographie anthropométrique en usage dans le système colonial à la fin du XIXe siècle, qu'elle altère afin de les déconstruire. La photographe questionne la violence sociétale héritée de la hiérarchisation des races et du passé américain.
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