Stephan Tillmans

Posted by Fabio 30 March 2011

The Luminant Point Arrays by photographer Stephan Tillmans, show tube televisions in the moment they are swithed off. The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. The breakdown of the television picture discribes the breakdown of the reference. The product is self-referential photography. read more

Vivian Maier

Posted by Fabio 29 March 2011

Vivian Maier was an American amateur street photographer who was born in New York but grew up in France, and after returning to the U.S., worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago. Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by a local historian, John Maloof, in 2007.

ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI

Posted by Fabio 28 March 2011

In 1999, Alessandra Sanguinetti began working on a series of photographs documenting the lives of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda on their family’s farm outside Buenos Aires. Cultivating an intimate relationship with the pair, Ms. Sanguinetti collaborated with the girls for the next nine years, constructing images inspired by the dreams, fantasies, and fears that accompany the psychological and physical transition from childhood to adulthood.

Arab World Revolutions

Posted by Fabio 25 March 2011

An Extraordinary and unique insight into the life of American war photographer John Moore. Moore’s latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya – might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview after sneaking out of Benghazi, Libya en route back to his home in Denver. Directed by Mike Fritz.

Garry Winogrand

Posted by Fabio 24 March 2011

Born in New York City, Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984) began photographing while in the United States Air Force. He studied painting at City College of New York in 1947 and photography at Columbia University, New York City, in 1948. In 1949 he attended a photojournalism class at the New School for Social Research, New York City, and from 1952 through 1969 worked as a freelance photojournalist and advertising photographer. read more

Polly Borland

Posted by Fabio 22 March 2011

A leading portrait photographer before moving to the UK from her native Australia in 1989, Polly has earned her reputation for specializing in stylized portraiture and off-beat reportage. She shoots regularly for numerous UK and US publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Independent and Dazed and Confused.

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Toshio Shibata

Posted by Fabio 21 March 2011

Toshio Shibata explores the delicate balance and powerful juxtapositions between the landscape and the infinite ability of man to impose structure on that landscape. Seen through Shibata’s large-format camera and wide-angle lenses, colossal industrial structures confuse our sense of mass and volume, and our ability to orient the subject in relation to human scale.

Lynn Silverman

Posted by Fabio 18 March 2011

Born in 1952, Photographer Lynn Silverman received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and her MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths’ College in London, England. She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Australia, and the United States. In addition to publishing four books, her work may be found in public collections in the Australia and Great Britain. She currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

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