My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect
moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole
process is when everything comes together and there is
that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant,
my life makes sense.”Gregory Crewdson
Autor: Julia Schiller
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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
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Photographs Not Taken
Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers‘ essays about failed attempts to make a picture.
Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph—camera, lens, film—and instead make a photograph using words, to capture the image (and its attendant memories) that never made it through the lens. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind the image. (mehr …)
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Clare Gallagher | Domestic Drift
Domestic Drift is concerned with everyday life – the ordinary activities, states of mind and conditions of existence that fill time outside the moments of drama and spectacle. It examines the sense of ordinariness inherent in the repetitive, habitual work of home while trying to appreciate the experience as simultaneously mundane and precious. (mehr …)
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Yoshi and Tamara Kametani | The Switzerland of America
The Switzerland of America (2010) challenges the notion of a true visual representation of a place. The collection of images that makes the project was taken in the state of New Jersey. (mehr …)
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Andrew George | Unfiltered
With these portraits, I am interested in uncovering a facade of identity. It is fascinating to consider the intricate variety of traits that we as individuals choose, or unconsciously adopt, in creating the persona that appears to be our “identity.” (mehr …)
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Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
April 10–17, 2012
MoMA New York /
The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floorElectronic music luminaries Kraftwerk will be celebrated at Museum of Modern Art with Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, a retrospective performed live on eight consecutive evenings.
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Saul Leiter – Retrospective
Feb 3 – April 15, 2012
Deichtorhallen Hamburg / House of Photography»Leiter is a rare artist, one whose vision is so encompassing, so refined, so in touch with a certain lyrical undertone, that his best photographs occasionally seem literally to transcend the medium.«
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Rineke Dijkstra – A Retrospective
February 18 – May 28, 2012
SFMOMA„In works of classical simplicity and remarkable psychological depth, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra presents a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Whether adolescents, soldiers, or new mothers, Dijkstra is fascinated by people in states of significant transition. (mehr …)
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MoMA | Millenium Magazines
February 20–May 14, 2012
MoMA NYC
Organized by Rachael Morrison and David Senior, MoMA Library„This survey of experimental art and design magazines published since 2000 explores the various ways in which contemporary artists and designers utilize the magazine format as an experimental space for the presentation of artworks and text.
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Alireza Abbasy | Portraits of professions
November 2011, Esfahan, Iran.
It’s an ancient and prosperous city with a population of 3.5 million, and used to be the capital of the country for a few centuries. The city is proud of its contributions to the Iranian society and culture, proud of the exceptional novelists, poets, musicians, and composers who grew up in, and were nurtured by city of Esfahan. (mehr …)