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Book Review: Old Is New by Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tomoyuki Sakakida
The firm New Material Research Laboratory (NMRL) was founded in 2008 by Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) and Tomoyuki Sakakida (born 1976) and is guided by the idea that “The oldest things are the newest.” Since I’m at a loss what this exactly means, I turn to the press release that informs me that “Sugimoto and
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Location: Online Type: Architecture, Book Review, Landscapes
Book Review: Sea Level by Mandy Williams
Sea Level is a series of images made in Worthing, England where Mandy Williams lived as a teenager. Making images in familiar places is prominent in her work, and the diaristic nature of the project is both a comment on the sense of place she experiences, as well as the overlaid ideas of the appreciation,
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Location: Online Type: Black and White, Book Review, Landscapes
Book Review: The Plain by Melanie Friend
I do not find these photographs especially well-crafted, do not deem the framing very appealing but, nevertheless, I feel drawn to them because wide open spaces attract me. In other words, I do not think you can do much wrong when photographing open landscapes. Such was my take after a first and rather casual look
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Landscapes
Book Review: Crown Ditch & The Prairie Castle by Kyler Zeleny
“Some use empty or banal to describe the prairies, I use the term sublimely banal. The writer and prairie son Wallace Stegner once called the emptiness of space on the prairies “almost frighteningly total.” The place I grew up could be argued to be the last ‘proving ground’ of colonial settlement, as such, it is
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Landscapes, Prairies
Book Review: Grönland by Ulrike Crespo
Grönland (Greenland) is a tome in German and English by Ulrike Crespo (1950-2019) whose background in art history, archaeology and psychology seems to have influenced her photographic work. To me at least, the cover and pic number 6, for instance, look as fascinatingly indecipherable as our unconscious. What attracted me first and foremost to this
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Landscapes
Book Review: Kingdom of Sand and Cement by Peter Bogaczewicz
Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis, have experienced profound change in less than a century as they transitioned from living in traditional mud buildings to commencing work on the world’s tallest skyscraper. Kingdom of Sand and Cement by Peter Bogaczewicz explores the challenges Saudi Arabia faces today as it rapidly transforms from a conservative and tribal desert culture to
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Landscapes
Book Review: Project Cleansweep by Dara Mcgrath
Dara Mcgrath, an Irish photographer interested in the transitional lives of spaces (those places where a relationship is created between architecture, history, landscape, built environment; and a dialogue of absence rather than presence), took more than 8 years to bring to end this project. At the end of 2011 McGrath, through a newspaper article, discovered
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Documentary, Landscapes
Simone Mizzotti @ Torrefazione Vittoria
Simone Mizzotti: Panoramica 21st February/11th April, 2020 “Panoramica is the overview of Simone Mizzotti’s photographic activity and its phases; Panoramica is the vision of the landscape, the theme that binds all these images. Landscape is that set of things that brings together and unites everything we live and breathe; and the initial quote is not
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Location: Online Type: Exhibition, Landscapes
Interview with photographer Mehrdad Fathi
F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? Mehrdad Fathi: In high school I was interested in filmmaking and cinema, so I chose photography to get into cinema, to get to know the image. But I was fascinated by photography and
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Location: Online Type: Featured Photographer, Interview, Landscapes
Interview with photographer Ellen Jantzen
F-Stop Magazine: The Portfolio 2019 issue of F-Stop Magazine features your project “ Mid+West,” can you tell us about this project? What led to this work? Ellen Jantzen: After spending most of my adult life in California, I moved back to the St. Louis area in 2009 to help both my husband’s mother and my
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Location: Online Type: Featured Photographer, Interview, Landscapes
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