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One day in 1973, acting on a whim, Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr, final year photography students at Manchester Polytechnic, attended a Granada TV open day to view the newly reconstructed set of Coronation Street. There they learned that location filming of the popular soap opera was shortly to end. This was because wholesale regeneration of Salford’s housing stock was(...)
Daniel Meadows & Martin Parr — June Street, Salford 1973
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One day in 1973, acting on a whim, Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr, final year photography students at Manchester Polytechnic, attended a Granada TV open day to view the newly reconstructed set of Coronation Street. There they learned that location filming of the popular soap opera was shortly to end. This was because wholesale regeneration of Salford’s housing stock was sweeping away the ranks of Victorian terraced streets and their paving of stone setts, the very features which defined how a TV audience expected ‘the north’ to look. If the drama were to continue to look like itself, exterior scenes would henceforth be shot only at the studio. This discovery inspired Meadows and Parr to go looking for a former classic ‘Street’-like location to document before the bulldozers moved in. They settled on June Street in Ordsall, twenty houses which were still fully occupied. Over eight weeks or so, using the college Hasselblad and a bright photoflood lightbulb (screwed into the ceiling socket), they photographed each household — adults, children, dogs, cats, the budgie and, in one case, a tortoise — sitting together in their front rooms. When it was all done, they invited everyone to take part in a group photograph.
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Habitante no. 7
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Retropéleriner : l'écrivaine française Laure Limongi nous entraîne dans les pas du saint médecin italien Giuseppe Moscati (1880-1927) à travers Naples. Scroller l'antespace : l'architecte Clara Baudy nous parle de la façon dont l'architecture domestique se réinvente dans un quasi-mouvement esthétique au filtre de l'algorithme d'Instagram. Intranquille à Clichy :(...)
Habitante no. 7
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Retropéleriner : l'écrivaine française Laure Limongi nous entraîne dans les pas du saint médecin italien Giuseppe Moscati (1880-1927) à travers Naples. Scroller l'antespace : l'architecte Clara Baudy nous parle de la façon dont l'architecture domestique se réinvente dans un quasi-mouvement esthétique au filtre de l'algorithme d'Instagram. Intranquille à Clichy : Soline Nivet enquête sur la vie des hôtels de Clichy, du confinement aux Jeux Olympiques. Dans l'hémicycle (Livecam) : le chercheur Dennis Pohl analyse l'entrée progressive du public au sein du parlement européen à travers la TV puis l'internet.
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Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. In this book, curator Barbara London traces the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art - from analog to digital, small TV monitors to wall-scale projections, and clunky(...)
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Video/Art: the first fifty years
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Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. In this book, curator Barbara London traces the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art - from analog to digital, small TV monitors to wall-scale projections, and clunky hardware to user-friendly software. In doing so, she reveals how video evolved from fringe status to be seen as one of the foremost art forms of today.
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Vivere l'Architettura, is a photographic journey across contemporary architecture and unusual Roman town-planning sets, written and filmed between 2007 and 2010, and broadcasted by the TV station "Roma Uno": The modern and contemporary city with its new middle and working-class suburbs, the schools and the universities, the work, trade and leisure places have their(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
February 2012
Roma : living in contemporary architecture
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Vivere l'Architettura, is a photographic journey across contemporary architecture and unusual Roman town-planning sets, written and filmed between 2007 and 2010, and broadcasted by the TV station "Roma Uno": The modern and contemporary city with its new middle and working-class suburbs, the schools and the universities, the work, trade and leisure places have their presence in this richly illustrated book. Historical sites are not featured in here but the most recent architecture from the last 50 years, including the recent art museum by Zaha Hadid, MAXXI.
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KesselsKramer: A new kilo
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A new kilo collects five years of work from communications agency KesselsKramer. It is the slightly lighter follow-up to 2 kilo, which showed the work of the company’s first ten years. This book picks up where its predecessor left off, with the last five years worth of KesselsKramer’s existence detailed down to every last flyer, sticker and T-shirt. Also featured are(...)
KesselsKramer: A new kilo
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A new kilo collects five years of work from communications agency KesselsKramer. It is the slightly lighter follow-up to 2 kilo, which showed the work of the company’s first ten years. This book picks up where its predecessor left off, with the last five years worth of KesselsKramer’s existence detailed down to every last flyer, sticker and T-shirt. Also featured are mammoth TV and cinema commercials, advertisements that look less like ads and more like short films, and a bunch of websites, designs and assorted category-defying oddities.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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No Is Not an Answer presents Marie-Louise Ekman’s art. As one of the most influential artists in Sweden in the postwar period, Ekman was both part of Swedish pop and the rebellious underground in the ’60s and ’70s. She created a unique body of proto-feminist work, which draws equally from the playful imagination of a young woman and popular culture in the social welfare(...)
No is not an answer : on the work of Marie-Louise Ekman
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No Is Not an Answer presents Marie-Louise Ekman’s art. As one of the most influential artists in Sweden in the postwar period, Ekman was both part of Swedish pop and the rebellious underground in the ’60s and ’70s. She created a unique body of proto-feminist work, which draws equally from the playful imagination of a young woman and popular culture in the social welfare state. She has directed more than a dozen films, TV series, and plays, and since 2009 she has been the director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
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This book explores the increasing use of experimental interactive design in our living and working environments. Responsive environments - by definition spaces that interact with the people who use them or pass through them - have in a very short space of time become ubiquitous. From an installation in a London shopping centre that registers the presence of passers-by(...)
Responsive environments : architecture art and design
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This book explores the increasing use of experimental interactive design in our living and working environments. Responsive environments - by definition spaces that interact with the people who use them or pass through them - have in a very short space of time become ubiquitous. From an installation in a London shopping centre that registers the presence of passers-by with patterns of coloured light and sound, to an interactive artwork in the boardroom of the TV channel Five, the projects featured in this book engage with our wishes and bodily sensations, fusing inventive design with interactive media and technologies.
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Essays against everything
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Mark Grief examines the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of pop music, the rise and fall of the hipster, the uses of reality TV, the impact of protest movements, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life how to(...)
Essays against everything
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Mark Grief examines the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of pop music, the rise and fall of the hipster, the uses of reality TV, the impact of protest movements, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life how to find a philosophical stance to adopt toward one’s self and the world. Mark Greif manages to revivify the thought and spirit of the greatest of American dissenters, Henry David Thoreau, for our time and historical situation.
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Photographs by Homma Takashi. Roppongi Hills is one of Japan's largest integrated property developments, located in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. Constructed by building tycoon Minoru Mori, the mega-complex incorporates office space, apartments, shops, restaurants, cafés, movie theaters, a museum, a hotel, a major TV studio, an outdoor amphitheater, and a few parks. The(...)
March 2006, Tokyo
Six strata : Roppongi Hills defined
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Photographs by Homma Takashi. Roppongi Hills is one of Japan's largest integrated property developments, located in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. Constructed by building tycoon Minoru Mori, the mega-complex incorporates office space, apartments, shops, restaurants, cafés, movie theaters, a museum, a hotel, a major TV studio, an outdoor amphitheater, and a few parks. The centerpiece is the 54-story eponymous Mori Tower. Mori's stated vision was to build an integrated development where high-rise inner-urban communities allow people to live, work, play, and shop in close proximity to eliminate commuting time. Seventeen years in the making, the complex opened to the public on april 23, 2003.
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Published in Icelandic in 1994, ''Under the Wings of the Valkyrie'' is the work that established Sjón's literary career. Short and intense, the story unfolds through a letter from Icelandic architect Fridjón B. Fridriksson to his wife, revealing his lifelong obsession with German militant Gudrun Ensslin, of the Baader-Meinhof gang. He first glimpsed her on TV as a child(...)
Under the wings of the Valkyrie
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Published in Icelandic in 1994, ''Under the Wings of the Valkyrie'' is the work that established Sjón's literary career. Short and intense, the story unfolds through a letter from Icelandic architect Fridjón B. Fridriksson to his wife, revealing his lifelong obsession with German militant Gudrun Ensslin, of the Baader-Meinhof gang. He first glimpsed her on TV as a child and now Ensslin lingers in his dreams and has become the defining fixture of his psyche. To break free from Ensslin, and salvage his marriage, Fridjón resorts to drastic measures. Disturbing yet captivating, ''Under the Wings of the Valkyrie'' blurs the lines between passion and madness, fantasy and reality.
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