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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf(...)
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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf(...)
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The color black: Antinomies of a color in architecture and art
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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf Loos to Norman Foster, Hans Holbein to Derek Jarman. Alongside these renowned touchpoints, Mostafavi draws on a little-known and highly distinctive text by the Marxist German art historian Max Raphael, based on a collection of historic paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Contemporaneous with the evolution of black paintings by New York's Abstract Expressionists, Raphael's essay offers a drastically contrasting approach to the same multivalent subject. The book is completed by Rapahel's luminous essay, published in its entirety for the first time in an English translation by Pamela Johnston, as well as conversations with Swiss architect Peter Märkli, whose work with the colour black is informed by Raphael's writings, and Theaster Gates. By juxtaposing the present with the recent and distant past, this book provides a many-layered reading of the colour black ? and of colour more widely ? in relation to contemporary architectural thinking and practice.
The color black: Antinomies of a color in architecture and art
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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf Loos to Norman Foster, Hans Holbein to Derek Jarman. Alongside these renowned touchpoints, Mostafavi draws on a little-known and highly distinctive text by the Marxist German art historian Max Raphael, based on a collection of historic paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Contemporaneous with the evolution of black paintings by New York's Abstract Expressionists, Raphael's essay offers a drastically contrasting approach to the same multivalent subject. The book is completed by Rapahel's luminous essay, published in its entirety for the first time in an English translation by Pamela Johnston, as well as conversations with Swiss architect Peter Märkli, whose work with the colour black is informed by Raphael's writings, and Theaster Gates. By juxtaposing the present with the recent and distant past, this book provides a many-layered reading of the colour black ? and of colour more widely ? in relation to contemporary architectural thinking and practice.
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septembre 2024
septembre 2024
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se(...)
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se(...)
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Sergio Larrain, la photo perdue
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se consacrer à la méditation, au yoga et à l'écriture. Larrain resta connecté au monde de la photographie en maintenant une multitude de relations épistolaires, avec la singularité qui le caractérise. Ce livre, écrit aux confins du cercle familial, explore les clairs-obscurs de sa biographie. Sergio Lorrain, la photo perdue est le sixième titre de la collection TXT, dirigée par Agnès Sire.
Sergio Larrain, la photo perdue
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se consacrer à la méditation, au yoga et à l'écriture. Larrain resta connecté au monde de la photographie en maintenant une multitude de relations épistolaires, avec la singularité qui le caractérise. Ce livre, écrit aux confins du cercle familial, explore les clairs-obscurs de sa biographie. Sergio Lorrain, la photo perdue est le sixième titre de la collection TXT, dirigée par Agnès Sire.
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septembre 2024
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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See/ Saw: Looking at photographs
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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janvier 2023
janvier 2023
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité(...)
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité(...)
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Traverser l'invisible: Énigmes figuratives de Francesca Woodman et Vivian Maier
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité de pellicules non développées laissées derrière elle dans un anonymat presque total. En marge des mouvements artistiques qui leur Étaient contemporains et dont elles sont restées éloignées, elles semblent aussi avoir inventé des images en marge du temps. Qu’elles l’aient fait au XXe siècle n’est pas anodin. Elles héritent d’une histoire double que cet ouvrage formule et parcourt.
Traverser l'invisible: Énigmes figuratives de Francesca Woodman et Vivian Maier
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité de pellicules non développées laissées derrière elle dans un anonymat presque total. En marge des mouvements artistiques qui leur Étaient contemporains et dont elles sont restées éloignées, elles semblent aussi avoir inventé des images en marge du temps. Qu’elles l’aient fait au XXe siècle n’est pas anodin. Elles héritent d’une histoire double que cet ouvrage formule et parcourt.
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octobre 2022
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Europa : l'esprit des villes
Europa : l'esprit des villes
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De Barcelone à Saint-Pétersbourg en passant par Paris, Prague ou Vienne, quarante et un photographes de nationalités et d'horizons divers offrent leur vision de la ville européenne. Du classicisme dérivé d'Atget aux tentatives numériques actuelles, les différents courants de la création photographique contemporaine interrogent la diversité de la cité européenne, révélant(...)
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De Barcelone à Saint-Pétersbourg en passant par Paris, Prague ou Vienne, quarante et un photographes de nationalités et d'horizons divers offrent leur vision de la ville européenne. Du classicisme dérivé d'Atget aux tentatives numériques actuelles, les différents courants de la création photographique contemporaine interrogent la diversité de la cité européenne, révélant(...)
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octobre 2004, Lyon
octobre 2004, Lyon
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Europa : l'esprit des villes
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De Barcelone à Saint-Pétersbourg en passant par Paris, Prague ou Vienne, quarante et un photographes de nationalités et d'horizons divers offrent leur vision de la ville européenne. Du classicisme dérivé d'Atget aux tentatives numériques actuelles, les différents courants de la création photographique contemporaine interrogent la diversité de la cité européenne, révélant ses blessures, ses déséquilibres et son étrange beauté. Un large et fascinant panorama que viennent éclairer les textes d'écrivains, universitaires et journalistes. " Europa, l'Esprit des Villes " accompagne la manifestation éponyme, organisée en septembre 2004 dans le cadre de la 11e Biennale de la Danse de Lyon.
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De Barcelone à Saint-Pétersbourg en passant par Paris, Prague ou Vienne, quarante et un photographes de nationalités et d'horizons divers offrent leur vision de la ville européenne. Du classicisme dérivé d'Atget aux tentatives numériques actuelles, les différents courants de la création photographique contemporaine interrogent la diversité de la cité européenne, révélant ses blessures, ses déséquilibres et son étrange beauté. Un large et fascinant panorama que viennent éclairer les textes d'écrivains, universitaires et journalistes. " Europa, l'Esprit des Villes " accompagne la manifestation éponyme, organisée en septembre 2004 dans le cadre de la 11e Biennale de la Danse de Lyon.
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octobre 2004, Lyon
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Portraits d'arbres met en regard l’inventaire des “Vieux Arbres de la Normandie”, réalisé entre 1890 et 1932 par Henri Gadeau de Kerville, savant et photographe rouennais, avec les œuvres d’une vingtaine d’artistes contemporains parmi lesquels Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rodney Graham ou Nils-Sudo. Sous le terme de “portraits”, il s’agit bien sûr d’évoquer les formes de cet(...)
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Portraits d'arbres met en regard l’inventaire des “Vieux Arbres de la Normandie”, réalisé entre 1890 et 1932 par Henri Gadeau de Kerville, savant et photographe rouennais, avec les œuvres d’une vingtaine d’artistes contemporains parmi lesquels Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rodney Graham ou Nils-Sudo. Sous le terme de “portraits”, il s’agit bien sûr d’évoquer les formes de cet(...)
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Portraits d'arbres : Henri Gadeau de Kerville au regard de la photographie contemporaine
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Portraits d'arbres met en regard l’inventaire des “Vieux Arbres de la Normandie”, réalisé entre 1890 et 1932 par Henri Gadeau de Kerville, savant et photographe rouennais, avec les œuvres d’une vingtaine d’artistes contemporains parmi lesquels Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rodney Graham ou Nils-Sudo. Sous le terme de “portraits”, il s’agit bien sûr d’évoquer les formes de cet inventaire, mais aussi leur écho dans la représentation actuelle du paysage ou, par métaphore, dans celle de l’individu. L’arbre apparaît ici majestueux ou torturé, isolé ou noyé dans la végétation, comme autant de figures ouvertes à nos sentiments et notre imagination.
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Portraits d'arbres met en regard l’inventaire des “Vieux Arbres de la Normandie”, réalisé entre 1890 et 1932 par Henri Gadeau de Kerville, savant et photographe rouennais, avec les œuvres d’une vingtaine d’artistes contemporains parmi lesquels Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rodney Graham ou Nils-Sudo. Sous le terme de “portraits”, il s’agit bien sûr d’évoquer les formes de cet inventaire, mais aussi leur écho dans la représentation actuelle du paysage ou, par métaphore, dans celle de l’individu. L’arbre apparaît ici majestueux ou torturé, isolé ou noyé dans la végétation, comme autant de figures ouvertes à nos sentiments et notre imagination.
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janvier 1900, Liège
janvier 1900, Liège
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During the 1970s, the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys granted money to photograph American cities at the bicentennial and years that followed. In “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s”, Mark Rice brings to light this long-neglected photographic endeavour. From 1976 to 1981, the NEA supported more than seventy projects(...)
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During the 1970s, the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys granted money to photograph American cities at the bicentennial and years that followed. In “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s”, Mark Rice brings to light this long-neglected photographic endeavour. From 1976 to 1981, the NEA supported more than seventy projects(...)
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Through the lens of the city : NEA photography surveys of the 1970s
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During the 1970s, the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys granted money to photograph American cities at the bicentennial and years that followed. In “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s”, Mark Rice brings to light this long-neglected photographic endeavour. From 1976 to 1981, the NEA supported more than seventy projects that examined a wide range of people and places in America. Artists involved included such well known photographers as Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, and Joel Meyerowitz and many photographers who became widely known after their work with the surveys, such as Robert Adams, Joe Deal, Terry Evans, and Wendy Ewald. Rice argues that the NEA Photographic Surveys drew from two wells: a widespread sense of nostalgia and an intense public interest in photography. Looking at the works from eight key cities-Atlanta, Buffalo, Durham, East Baltimore, Galveston, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Venice-the book uncovers marked differences as well as startling similarities in the concerns manifested by different photographers in far-flung places. Although the surveys are interesting both for their artistic merits and for their place in the history of American photography, they are equally important as a documentation of bicentennial-era America and a close examination of American cities. A major shift in the ideals of civil engineering and urban planning was underway in the 1970s. At the same time, ideas and theories about photography were changing along with our notions of what the city could and should be. These surveys, capturing American cities in a fascinating period of flux, show us American photographers matching artistry to subject matter in new and exciting ways.
Through the lens of the city : NEA photography surveys of the 1970s
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During the 1970s, the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys granted money to photograph American cities at the bicentennial and years that followed. In “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s”, Mark Rice brings to light this long-neglected photographic endeavour. From 1976 to 1981, the NEA supported more than seventy projects that examined a wide range of people and places in America. Artists involved included such well known photographers as Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, and Joel Meyerowitz and many photographers who became widely known after their work with the surveys, such as Robert Adams, Joe Deal, Terry Evans, and Wendy Ewald. Rice argues that the NEA Photographic Surveys drew from two wells: a widespread sense of nostalgia and an intense public interest in photography. Looking at the works from eight key cities-Atlanta, Buffalo, Durham, East Baltimore, Galveston, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Venice-the book uncovers marked differences as well as startling similarities in the concerns manifested by different photographers in far-flung places. Although the surveys are interesting both for their artistic merits and for their place in the history of American photography, they are equally important as a documentation of bicentennial-era America and a close examination of American cities. A major shift in the ideals of civil engineering and urban planning was underway in the 1970s. At the same time, ideas and theories about photography were changing along with our notions of what the city could and should be. These surveys, capturing American cities in a fascinating period of flux, show us American photographers matching artistry to subject matter in new and exciting ways.
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janvier 2005, Jackson, Mississippi
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Gardens have inspired artists for hundreds of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographers ranging from Eugène Atget to Edward Steichen were drawn to gardens for their beauty and their metaphorical associations. A century later, in the mid-1980s, an unusually large number of artists returned to the garden as a subject for their photography. This lovely(...)
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Gardens have inspired artists for hundreds of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographers ranging from Eugène Atget to Edward Steichen were drawn to gardens for their beauty and their metaphorical associations. A century later, in the mid-1980s, an unusually large number of artists returned to the garden as a subject for their photography. This lovely(...)
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novembre 2004, New York
novembre 2004, New York
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Contemporary photography and the garden
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Gardens have inspired artists for hundreds of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographers ranging from Eugène Atget to Edward Steichen were drawn to gardens for their beauty and their metaphorical associations. A century later, in the mid-1980s, an unusually large number of artists returned to the garden as a subject for their photography. This lovely book devoted to the garden photography of contemporary artists accompanies an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts. The photographs—by Gregory Crewdson, Len Jenshel, Erica Lennard, Sally Mann, Catherine Opie, Jack Pierson, and other acclaimed artists—demonstrate a remarkably wide range of artistic responses to the garden. Whether presenting it as a haven of tranquility and lyrical beauty or drawing on it as a dark visual metaphor for the manipulation of nature, these photographs express the artists' investigation of the forms, atmosphere, and symbolism of the garden. Essays by Thomas Padon, Robert Harrison, Ronald Jones, and Shirin Neshat bring historical and contextual insight to the fascination many contemporary artists have with this popular subject.
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Gardens have inspired artists for hundreds of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographers ranging from Eugène Atget to Edward Steichen were drawn to gardens for their beauty and their metaphorical associations. A century later, in the mid-1980s, an unusually large number of artists returned to the garden as a subject for their photography. This lovely book devoted to the garden photography of contemporary artists accompanies an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts. The photographs—by Gregory Crewdson, Len Jenshel, Erica Lennard, Sally Mann, Catherine Opie, Jack Pierson, and other acclaimed artists—demonstrate a remarkably wide range of artistic responses to the garden. Whether presenting it as a haven of tranquility and lyrical beauty or drawing on it as a dark visual metaphor for the manipulation of nature, these photographs express the artists' investigation of the forms, atmosphere, and symbolism of the garden. Essays by Thomas Padon, Robert Harrison, Ronald Jones, and Shirin Neshat bring historical and contextual insight to the fascination many contemporary artists have with this popular subject.
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novembre 2004, New York
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Aleksandr Rodchenko : experiments for the future. diaries, essays, letters, and other writings
Aleksandr Rodchenko : experiments for the future. diaries, essays, letters, and other writings
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First puyblished in Russian in 1996, this book presents a great variety of texts spanning Rodchenko's adult life, including unpublished material.
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First puyblished in Russian in 1996, this book presents a great variety of texts spanning Rodchenko's adult life, including unpublished material.
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novembre 2004, New York
novembre 2004, New York
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Aleksandr Rodchenko : experiments for the future. diaries, essays, letters, and other writings
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novembre 2004, New York
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Boring postcards
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Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography and contemporary art. Some accuse him of cruelty, but many more appreciate the wit and irony with which he tackles such subjects as bad taste, food, the tourist, shopping and the foibles of the British. Parr has been collecting postcards for twenty years, and here is the cream of his collection – his boring(...)
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Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography and contemporary art. Some accuse him of cruelty, but many more appreciate the wit and irony with which he tackles such subjects as bad taste, food, the tourist, shopping and the foibles of the British. Parr has been collecting postcards for twenty years, and here is the cream of his collection – his boring(...)
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Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography and contemporary art. Some accuse him of cruelty, but many more appreciate the wit and irony with which he tackles such subjects as bad taste, food, the tourist, shopping and the foibles of the British. Parr has been collecting postcards for twenty years, and here is the cream of his collection – his boring postcards. With no introduction or commentary of any kind, Parr’s boring postcards are reproduced straight: they are exactly what they say they are, namely boring picture postcards showing boring photographs of boring places … presumably for boring people to buy to send to their boring friends. All of them are shot in Britain, taking us on a boring tour of its motorways, ring roads, traffic interchanges, bus stations, pedestrian precincts, factories, housing estates, airports, caravan sites, convalescent homes and shopping centres. Some attempt to idealize their subjects, only to fail dismally. Others lack any apparent purpose or interest … but the resultant collection of photographic images is wholly compelling. Boring Postcards is multi-layered: a commentary on British architecture, social life and identity, a record of a folk photography which is today being appropriated by the most fashionable photographers (including Parr), an exercise in sublime minimalism … and, above all, a richly comic photographic entertainment
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Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography and contemporary art. Some accuse him of cruelty, but many more appreciate the wit and irony with which he tackles such subjects as bad taste, food, the tourist, shopping and the foibles of the British. Parr has been collecting postcards for twenty years, and here is the cream of his collection – his boring postcards. With no introduction or commentary of any kind, Parr’s boring postcards are reproduced straight: they are exactly what they say they are, namely boring picture postcards showing boring photographs of boring places … presumably for boring people to buy to send to their boring friends. All of them are shot in Britain, taking us on a boring tour of its motorways, ring roads, traffic interchanges, bus stations, pedestrian precincts, factories, housing estates, airports, caravan sites, convalescent homes and shopping centres. Some attempt to idealize their subjects, only to fail dismally. Others lack any apparent purpose or interest … but the resultant collection of photographic images is wholly compelling. Boring Postcards is multi-layered: a commentary on British architecture, social life and identity, a record of a folk photography which is today being appropriated by the most fashionable photographers (including Parr), an exercise in sublime minimalism … and, above all, a richly comic photographic entertainment
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Publication:
février 2004, London
février 2004, London
Sujet:
Théorie de la photographie
Théorie de la photographie
