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what is it all about?

good question:

…independently produced and published photo books have gained prevalence over the past years, and have proven themselves to be an effective way to disseminate photography. While making photo books may have become easier than ever, making excellent photo books is as difficult and challenging as it ever was. Book Case Study is a three-day workshop focusing on the independent photo book. During an intensive program participants will study existing book designs, look for designs that push the envelope, and find ways to move beyond ‘gallery show on paper’ type publications, specifically tailored to the photography in question…

m / 04-11-2010 10:12 - tags: ,  

back to the future

a really nice set of modernist nostalgia from the aptly-named retrofuturs

(via ‘mc de waal’ once again, thank you!)

m / 03-11-2010 10:29 - tags: , ,  

details in reverse

…it is up to the viewer to explore his own projections and transform his own disillusion into an analytic quest for the true nature of the photographic semblance portrayed in Detail in Reverse. To this end, the artists really offer more than enough clues in the form of tapestries which bring optical illusion and the reversal of handicraft as a counterpoint to the fore. In point of fact the secret encased in the images does not lie so much in seductive aesthetics as in their traceability back to the photographic process. So, in the reflection of each independent vase-baluster, the lens can be seen to function as a valve into which the spirit of each photographic image is blown. But, as soon as the photo has been taken the valve can open again, allowing the entire set to empty itself, like some balloon. The image however has been captured and can never escape…

a new exhibition due to open this coming saturday in amsterdam, featuring the new photography project (with a twist) by the ever-original scheltens & abbenes

m / 01-11-2010 16:54 - tags: , ,  

random pantone photo

amsterdam has gone all PMS 109C.

m / 31-10-2010 12:57 - tags: ,  

bowery & other butterflies

currently on show in gallery eduard planting in amsterdam:
a stunning series of portraits of iconic performance artist mister
‘leigh bowery’ by british photographer (and assistant to erstwhile-legend richard avedon) ”fergus greer’, eat your heart out lady gaga…

m / 28-10-2010 14:44 - tags: , ,  
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