Tag Archive: Black and White
How wonderful!, I thought when glancing through the pages of this book and experienced what I do not recall to have ever experienced when spending time with a photo book showing people: I liked every single one of these photographs, without any reservation. That might have to do with the fact that the ones portrayed […]
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Oliver Raschka, trained in economics and psychology, lives in Stuttgart, Germany. As a photographer he is essentially self-taught, in addition, he attended numerous workshops with renowned photographers. The world ain’t enough… documents the first ten years of his two sons. The black and white photographs show them at home and at play, at sporting events […]
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Thinking of the circus automatically makes me feel sawdust, smell the odour of animals and imagine people who are constantly on the road. In my youth, the ones travelling with the circus did spell freedom and independence for me – a romantic myth, of course. This book, however, “doesn’t try to paint a nostalgic fantasy, […]
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This book starts and ends with an illustration of the American chestnut tree. I grew up in central Indiana in the 1970s and 80s. There was an American chestnut tree in our side yard, and it eventually declined in health and was cut down. This is only one example of the kind of species or […]
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Sarah Hadley interweaves the concept of memory with images that evoke a sense of the past, a place and a time particular to the Venice, Italy of her youth. But the idea of place is secondary to the concept of time. Time lost with a parent, time that now only exists or which can only […]
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Dominique Pierre-Nina: BEYOND THE SQUARE 26 February to 8 March 2020 “The evocative, dreamy and nostalgic quality of his collection are reminiscent of photography giants like Ansel Adams and Herb Ritts. Dominique has chosen to present all the photographs in a square format, inspired by his love of the famous Hasselblad camera, which shoots 6×6 […]
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Justyna Badach: Asymmetric Warfare Feb. 21, 2020 – April 18, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 from 6-9pm Artist Talk with Special Guests: Feb. 21 at 6pm Asymmetric Warfare presents the work of Justyna Badach, who examines how modern-day military propaganda shapes our perceptions of war and conflict. Using her computer as a camera, […]
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RENÉ BURRI: Les Allemands 4 march – 18 April 2020 OPENING on Tuesday 3rd of March from 6.30 pm ” René Burri joined Magnum Photo a decade after Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, Robert Capa and Georges Rodger founded the legendary agency in Paris and New-York in 1947. He became a member in 1959. Around the […]
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The apparition of these faces in a crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” (1913) From a 2013 interview between Waltz Books publisher Mary Goodwin and Keliy Anderson-Staley, she said, “I think any portrait can make us think about mortality and transience, but this process—because in a […]
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SEBASTIÃO SALGADO: Gold January 31 to March 14, 2020 Opening Thursday, January 30 OF 18H At 8:30 p.m. Polka Galerie 12 Rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris, France
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