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Joshua Lutz Interview

Joshua Lutz, Sunrise over Saint Francis, 2012 Marco Bohr: In September 2012 you published a photobook titled ‘Hesitating Beauty’ which I reviewed in a previous blog post. The book is a haunting...

Jun 10, 2013 Like

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The Woman in the Red Dress

Taken from Occupy Gezi Facebook page. Also used by Reuters A woman in a red dress sprayed with what appears to be pepper spray in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. The image vividly illustrates the popular...

Jun 3, 2013 Like

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Darkened Days by Simone Kappeler

Simone Kappeler, Trinity College, 11.10.2011 Darkened Days, a series of black and white photographs by the Swiss artist Simone Kappeler, is currently being shown at the Douglas Hyde Gallery – a...

May 21, 2013 Like

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Anthropocene

Please ‘like’ my article Dreamscapes: The Fantastical Photographs of Lieko Shiga published on TIME Magazine’s LightBox Blog. David Thomas Smith, Three Gorges Dam, Sandouping, Yiling, People’s...

May 7, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Fragments of Division

From the series Quiet Transfer II, 2011 Rachel Cunningham’s photographs interrogate the political, cultural and religious tensions in Israel and Palestine. While representing the remnants of an...

Apr 16, 2013 Like

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Joachim Brohm’s Peripheral Photographs

Bochum, 1983 Joachim Brohm’s exhibition Places & Edges – the artist’s first solo show in the UK – is currently on display at Brancolini Grimaldi in London. It brings together three bodies of work...

Apr 9, 2013 Like

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Review of the Format Photography Festival

Darek Fortas, from the series ‘Coal Story’, 2011 The overriding theme of this year’s international photography festival Format, currently on display at various locations in Derby and beyond, is...

Mar 21, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Trauma and Memory in the works of Kirk Palmer

Kirk Palmer, War’s End: An Island of Remembrance, 2012 (production still) War’s End: An Island of Remembrance is Kirk Palmer latest film installation which interrogates the atomic bombings of...

Mar 11, 2013 Like

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Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard

Lisa Barnard, from the book Chateau Despair, 2013 Lisa Barnard’s new photobook Chateau Despair was born out of a commissioned photo-project in which she documented the abandoned Conservative...

Mar 4, 2013 Like

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The Family Photograph in a Globalized World

John Clang’s photographic project ‘Being Together’ critically interrogates the family photograph in an increasingly globalized world. As a resident of New York, Clang made a recording of his family...

Feb 25, 2013 Like

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Hesitating Beauty by Joshua Lutz

The photobook ‘Hesitating Beauty’ interrogates the complex family history of the American photographer Joshua Lutz. More specifically, the main subject of the book is Lutz’ mother who suffers from...

Feb 18, 2013 Like

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Wooing the Spectator in Juergen Teller’s Photographs

Juergen Teller, Vivienne Westwood No. 3, London, 2009 Juergen Teller’s exhibition, simply titled Woo! is currently on display at the ICA in London. The photographs span a period of over 20 years,...

Feb 11, 2013 Like

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The Go Daddy Ad Ritual

Much like the half-time show, or the mandatory dosage of American patriotism, the commercial ad break has become a highly anticipated ritual in the proceedings of the Super Bowl. While the opposing...

Feb 4, 2013 Like

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Olivia Arthur’s Jeddah Diary

Olivia Arthus, Jeddah Diary, 2012 Olivia Arthur’s photobook Jeddah Diary is a fascinating insight into the role of women in Saudi society. Photographed over a period of two years, Arthur reveals...

Jan 14, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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‘Right of Way’ by Marco Bohr

Marco Bohr, Commonwealth Ave and Parkes Way, 2011 Marco Bohr’s new photographic project Right of Way addresses the failures of a modern project and the clash between urbanity and nature....

Dec 18, 2012 Like

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What is Art Photography?

Thomas Struth, National Gallery 1, London, 1985 Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present is currently on display at the National Gallery in London. The lack of natural lighting and the dark...

Dec 14, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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The Disappearance of Darkness

Robert Burley, Darkroom, Building 3, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2005 The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era by the Canadian photographer Robert Burley is a carefully...

Dec 7, 2012 Like

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(Dis)connecting Klein + Moriyama

William Klein, New York, 1954-55 The photographs of William Klein and Daido Moriyama are currently on display at the Tate Modern. It is an enormous exhibition, covering a lot of space in the...

Dec 3, 2012 Like

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Kim Jong Il Looking at Things

From the introduction to the book Kim Jong Il Looking at Things published by Jean Boîte Éditions in Paris: ‘Kim Jong Il looking at things’ is the eponymous title of a photoblog that took the...

Nov 26, 2012 Like

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Tokyo Photography Map

SCAI the Bathhouse Gallery as listed on the Tokyo Photography Map After launching our popular London Photography Map, I am pleased to introduce the Tokyo Photography Map which lists photobook...

Nov 23, 2012 Like

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Call for Photography Map Administrators

I am pleased to introduce you to our newest feature on Visual Culture Blog: the London Photography Map. The map lists bookshops, libraries, museums, public and private galleries where you can view...

Nov 19, 2012 Like 2 people like this

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Back in Austin and just layin’ around …

The downfall of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has taken up a new dimension, namely, it has taken up a visual dimension. This became most apparent on November 10 2012 when Armstrong tweeted a...

Nov 12, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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The Representation of Post-Tsunami Landscapes

Naoya Hatakeyama, Rikuzentakata, July 2004 © Naoya Hatakeyama Naoya Hatakeyama, Rikuzentakata, April 2011 © Naoya Hatakeyama Watching the BBC News in the aftermath of the 2011 Earthquake and...

Nov 5, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Obama’s Moment of Compassion

Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The most evocative photograph to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – a photograph meanwhile reproduced all over the world – captures Barack Obama hugging...

Nov 1, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Seeing For Others

Fatma Bucak, Omne Muem, Nihil Muem II, 2012. Image copyright belongs to the artist. Edited by the London based photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg, Seeing For Others brings together the work of 21...

Oct 29, 2012 Like

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Interrogating the ‘Shuttered Society’

Christian Borchert, Familie W. (Schutzpolizist, Montiererin) – Family W. (Policeman, Factory Worker), Berlin 1983 The exhibition ‘Geschlossene Gesellschaft’, literally translated as the closed or...

Oct 26, 2012 Like

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Marco Bohr, from the series Daigo Archive, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, 2008. Dear Readers, This month two years ago I started this blog. I am nostalgically looking back at my first post on the...

Oct 17, 2012 Like

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Dinh Q. Lê’s Erasure

Fill out our online survey. Dinh Q. Lê, Erasure, 2011, detail (video still). Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Dinh Q. Lê’s ‘Erasure’ is an interactive sculptural exhibition...

Oct 15, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Joshua Lutz Interview

The Woman in the Red Dress

Darkened Days by Simone Kappeler

Anthropocene

Fragments of Division

Joachim Brohm’s Peripheral Photographs

Review of the Format Photography Festival

Trauma and Memory in the works of Kirk Palmer

Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard

The Family Photograph in a Globalized World

Hesitating Beauty by Joshua Lutz

Wooing the Spectator in Juergen Teller’s Photographs

The Go Daddy Ad Ritual

Olivia Arthur’s Jeddah Diary

Top Ten Posts of 2012

‘Right of Way’ by Marco Bohr

What is Art Photography?

The Disappearance of Darkness

(Dis)connecting Klein + Moriyama

Kim Jong Il Looking at Things

Tokyo Photography Map

Call for Photography Map Administrators

Back in Austin and just layin’ around …

The Representation of Post-Tsunami Landscapes

Obama’s Moment of Compassion

Seeing For Others

Interrogating the ‘Shuttered Society’

Support the Visual Culture Blog

Dinh Q. Lê’s Erasure

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