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30 janvier 2012

Grids and dictionary

Notes from the introduction of Lucienne Roberts in GRIDS, Creative Solutions for Graphic Designers From the beginning of printing until the Industrial Revolution, the book was the primary output of printing. Apart from verse, type was generally set in...

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Tags: book design, grid

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24 janvier 2012

From the absence to the presence...

Create a living memory from August Sander's characters. Taken out from their context they are trully present. I just wanted to create different scenarios with these beautiful men and women, Parents and children, husbands and wives... I did not want to...

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Tags: photography, August Sander, Michael Somoroff

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24 janvier 2012

Japanese photography at the end of the XIXth

The most poetic exhibition is in Venise, Palazzo Fianchetti (Campo Santo Stefano, 2842), the seat of the local institute of Sciences, literature and art, will host the exhibit called "La Fotografia del Giappone (1860 – 1910)", i.e. "The Photography of...

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Tags: photograph, hand-colourised, old japanese

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24 janvier 2012

Paths...

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Tags: photograph, venise

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17 janvier 2012

Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky is an architect and former member of the group Paper Architects operating in Russia in the 1980s, whose work centred around a refusal to take part in state sponsored architectural production of low-quality, standardised buildings. During...

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17 janvier 2012

Auguste Sander 1876-1964

Voir, observer, penser: la profession de foi d'un photographe Auguste Sander took 40 000 photograph whose 30 000 have disappeared following a bombing of Koln, during WWII. His photographs have perfect qualities such as the study of the reality, the authenticity...

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Tags: photography, August Sander, black and white, nostalgy, sociology

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12 janvier 2012

Fantasy photography

Postcards were the first medium to mass-distribute photography. "Fantasy" for funny, comic scenes created by hand at a time when digital camera and manipulation did not exist. The photographs and graphic designers used photographic techniques such as...

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Tags: black and white, comic, photomontage

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12 janvier 2012

Collector of images

Who is the artist today? How does the artist define himself? As a collector? like Rotella and Villegle (l'arpenteur de bitume/ asphalt surveyor) who are collecting urban comedy from the walls and gave their immortality in introducing them to the museums....

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