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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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13 décembre 2011

Mademoiselle Jeanne

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Tags: old postcards, story book

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6 décembre 2011

Georges Melies

The inventor of cinema. He was thanked by the Lumiere Brothers and recognised as the genious of films maker. Book Georges Melies by Elizabeth Ezra Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges...

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Tags: cinema, films, inventor, magician

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24 novembre 2011

Stefan Zweig, Irene Nerimovsky and Sandor Marai

I love these books for the cynical description of human relationships. Embers: Sandor Marai Describing the story of Embers is almost to do it a disservice. An elderly aristocratic general, Henrik, invites a childhood friend, Konrad, who disappeared 41...

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Tags: books, author, nostalgia

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23 novembre 2011

From August Sander to Michael Somoroff: Absence of subject

Reading with great interest the project of Michael Somoroff of reappropriating August Sander's photographs ( People of the Twentieth Century) in Eyemazing Nov. 2011, opened my curiosity . I found the project very poetic, nostalgic and pure. Michael Somoroff...

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Tags: appropriation, photography, August Sander, still life

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22 novembre 2011

Le livre de demain

La collection « Le Livre de Demain » (Arthème Fayard, Paris) à été publié en 253 volumes format grand in-8°, illustrés de gravures en bois originales, sous couvertures jaune, entre Janvier 1923 et le 2e trimestre 1947. Après c. 1950 Fayard a réimprimé...

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Tags: collection, old books

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22 novembre 2011

Hains, Rotella & Villegle

Villegle Travailleurs communistes, Hains Minuit, Mimmo Rotella Politique 97, Villegle London's tube

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Tags: Paris, Rome, affiches, lacerees, posters

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