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Questions and Answers about photographic publications
A discussion with Pavlos Pavlidis and Evi Karagiannidi from Voyage Visuel radio show Your love for books, your experience and knowledge will help us discuss about photographic publications today, I shall say better to reflect on their future from the perspective of the photographer, but also of the reader. The truth is that the photographer’s …
THE MAP OF IMAGES
No doubt, we live the era of images. From the theological way of thinking of the Middle Ages, we moved on to the Renaissance’s transformative and anthropocentric representation to be led to the pagan vertigo of the twentieth century and the impending online globalization. It might be worthwhile to examine how the worldview of each …
Results of Open Call “Inwards” | Future Exhibition
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John Pfahl (1939 – 2020)
It is with great sadness that I heard about John Pfahl’s recent departure (April 15, 2020), a victim of several ailments and COVID-19. I met John Pfahl for the first time at his Buffalo home in the Fall of 1996. My conversation with him was part of my research on American contemporary landscape photography. We …
André Kertész | A window with a view
This picture was taken by André Kertész in 1915 in Esztergom, Hungary. It depicts two soldiers on Easter day cracking their eggs during World War I. He is 21 years old and serves his military service. Though this picture may not be one of his best, it showcases a quality of the photographer more aptly …
The form as a means of contradicting ourselves in art
The form is the fundamental question at issue in any endeavour to create a work of art. It is about the style one chooses to build a world, with aspirations for a structure which will reverse their skepticism so as to nurture the values that reorganize chaos in sacred order. In other words inhabit a …
Questions and Answers on the history of American landscape photography.
Bruno Chalifour (Ph D., photo-historian and photographer) is answering Luminous eye’s questions regarding the presentation of his thesis “Le Paysage de la Photographie Américaine de Paysage 1960-1990” A “new genre” in American landscape photography, New Topographics” was inspired by a word of Greek origin “topography.” Why? And who funded the exhibition? The title was the …