PHOTOTALK WITH GEOFFROY MATHIEU
BY STEVE BISSON1. Tell us about your approach to photography. How it all started? What are your memories of your first shots? I began to be seriously interested by photography in college. With my old...
View ArticleSITES OF MEMORY
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica19.07.2014 - 06.09.2014Sites of memory are fundamentally remains, the ultimate embodiments of a memorial consciousness that has barely survived in a historical age that...
View ArticleMICHELANGELO ANTONIONI'S FILM CLASSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Blow-UpFotomuseum Winterthur13.09.2014 - 30.11.2014The cult film ‘Blow-Up’ by Michelangelo Antonioni (1966) occupies a central position in the history of film as well as that of art and photography. No...
View ArticlePHOTOTALK WITH DUSTIN SHUM
BY STEVE BISSON1. More than one year from the start of The Salt Yard, tell us about this experience and your curatorial approach? The Salt Yard is run under the condition of scarce resources. It’s...
View ArticleJOSEF KOUDELKA THROUGH GREEK AND ROMAN VESTIGES
Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana20.05.2014 - 03.09.2014Josef Koudelka, one of the world’s most acknowledged masters of photography, a member of Magnum Photos and the winner of prestigious photography prizes,...
View ArticlePURE PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE SOUTHEAST MUSEUM
PICTORIAL AND MODERN PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTIONSoutheast Museum, 12.09.2014 - 14.12.2014The evolution of photography as an art form has been influenced by countless...
View ArticleJONI STERNBACH AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW YORK SUBWAY 1975-1980
THE PASSENGERSRick Wester Fine Art, New York06.09.2014 - 25.10.2014Joni Sternbach, known internationally for her extensive documentation of surfers and surf culture using the archaic wet-plate...
View ArticleNG SAI KIT: AN EXPANDED DEFINITION
BY STEVE BISSONSome say that if art could be explained in words it would have no reason to exist. Whether we like it or not, I believe that an art work cannot be read without taking into account the...
View ArticleRUSSIAN SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS
UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR18th September – 21th Semptember 2014 will take place Third International Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam, which is focused on undiscovered photography talent and unseen work by...
View ArticleWAWRZYNIEC KOLBUSZ
SACRED DEFENSESacred Defense is a story of producing artificial war images, from raw materials used in their making to their social reception. It not only traces the existing modes of construction of...
View ArticleKEMPENAERS: ENJOY THE PROCESS
Breese Little, Londono19.09.2014 - 25.10.2014Jan Kempenaers: Enjoy the Process is a substantial mid‐career survey of Jan Kempenaers’ new and recent work. BREESE LITTLE will present a focus on the...
View ArticleIGOR OMULECKI AND THE FAMILY TRIPTYCH
BY JAKUB ŚWIRCZFamily Triptych is a one-of-a-kind work, its constituent parts revealing only now, when arranged next to each other, the laborious process of change that has been taking place in Igor...
View ArticlePHOTOTALK WITH JIEHAO SU
BY STEVE BISSON1. Tell us about your approach to photography. How it all started and memories of your first shots?Photography to me initially was a way to escape from reality, or more precisely, to...
View ArticleHIDDEN ISLAM BY NICOLO' DEGIORGIS
BY COLIN PANTALLThere are millions of Hindus, Christians and Buddhists working in Saudi Arabia, but not one recognised church, temple or chapel to accommodate their beliefs. You can’t send a card at...
View ArticlePHOTOTALK WITH MARTIN CREGG
BY STEVE BISSON1. Can you briefly describe your career - how did you get to St Kevin’s College of Further Education, Dublin? What directed you towards a teaching career?My teaching career began in...
View ArticleHOME IN THE BLOCKS. A HONG KONG STORY
BY DUSTIN SHUMWalking by a newly built public housing estate one day, I saw families happily moving into their new flats. The smiles on their faces were a stark contrast to how I felt thirty years ago...
View ArticleNATURAE HUMANAE. THE NEW BOOK BY GIANLUCA GAMBERINI
BY STEVE BISSON«What should I use my eyes for? To look at what?» This is the question Monica Vitti asks herself in Antonioni’s movie Red Desert, in her role as the neglected wife of an industrial...
View ArticlePHOTOTALK WITH RACHELE MAISTRELLO
BY LUCIA PEDRANA1. Tell us about your background: training, projects, your own way to approach photography.I got BFA at IUAV in Venice and I spent time in Annette Messager’s studio in Paris before...
View ArticlePETROCHEMICAL AMERICA: PROJECT ROOM
RICHARD MISRACH AND KATE ORFFThe Pomona College Museum of Art presents the traveling exhibition Petrochemical America on view from September 2 to December 19, 2014. Organized by Aperture Foundation,...
View ArticlePHOTOTALK WITH MIRCEA NICOLAE
BY STEVE BISSON1. Let’s start from the beginning. How did you come to the visual arts? Where have you completed your studies? How did your educational path affect your research?In 2002, I wrote my BA...
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