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Thursday, August 6, 2015
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Futuristic Collages
Art & Photography / AnOther Happy Monday
Futuristic Collages
Vintage imagery meets sci-fi visions in this week’s Happy Monday
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While at first glance they might just look like pretty compositions, Loli’s collages carry a deeper message, humorously revealed through her witty titles. From a woman kissing a gem-encrusted man in Gold Digging to an intergalactic feast in Roast with Mushrooms, a lady hoovering a beach in Dry Cleaning to a newly-wed couple driving off into a galaxy in Naive Honeymooners, the artist plays with puns and double entendres as she pushes us to fill in the blanks of the story with our imagination. (...)
Bruce Davidson: Los Angeles 1964
Art & Photography / In Pictures
Bruce Davidson: Los Angeles 1964
The acclaimed photographer's rejected project is finally published
Text Richard Assheton
In 1964 Esquire sent him west to photograph Los Angeles, in a series of images that has only just been published by Steidl, titled Los Angeles 1964. Without a strict memo or subject, Davidson wandered the streets, an Illinois-born New Yorker in the foreign world of the desert city. The work that Davidson brought back to Esquire was different to what they had expected. “The editor did not understand the pictures at all,” he says. “He gave them back to me and they stayed in my drawer until 1978.” (...)
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/7629/bruce-davidson-los-angeles-1964
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Saturday, August 1, 2015
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Chinese photobooks
In China, the Photobook
as Art and History
By Maurice Berger
On a fateful 2006 trip to a Beijing flea market, the photographers Martin Parr and Ruben Lundgren were fascinated by the Chinese photobooks they discovered. Soon, they became obsessed. Mr. Lundgren, who relocated there and became fluent in Mandarin, helped Mr. Parr make sense of the many volumes they began to systematically collect. By 2009, Mr. Lundgren’s Beijing apartment overflowed with books.
Their joint effort has resulted in “The Chinese Photobook” (Aperture), a rigorous exploration of the genre’s richness and diversity from the dawn of the 20th century to today...
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