Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review
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Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review
unfeeling photographic technology, which perceptibly changes the act of reading and with it the reader's interpretation.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
Because of the Stonewall uprising, people saw homosexuals no longer as criminals or sinners or mentally ill, but as something like members of a minority group. It was an oceanic change in thinking.
Edmund White • The Stonewall Reader
In the old romance of the artist, any person who has the temerity to spend a season in hell risks not getting out alive or coming back psychically damaged. The heroic avant-gardism of French literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries furnishes a memorable pantheon of artists who fail to survive their trips to hell. Still, there
... See moreSusan Sontag • On Photography
social group. Their diverse, generally figurative artistic output shared an ability to trigger media “scandals.”
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
Using a Leica camera with a telephoto lens on a tripod, Horvat took several thirty-second exposures so that the architecture and some people would be still, and the moving crowd would blur. By using this technique, Horvat appears to underscore the physical movement and the transient nature of the environment as well as the moments spent within it. ... See more