The zeugme (or zeugma) is a figure of speech that associates two words with completely different meanings of a third, as in the famous “Dressed in simple probity and white…
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Many think slavery ended with the demise of the trans-Atlantic trade, but sadly, that’s far from true. An estimated thirty-six million live without dignity or rights and although slavery is…
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From Angelina Jolie and Brigitte Bardot to Baz Luhrmann and Antonio Banderas, photographer Douglas Kirkland has been chronicling the making of films for more than half a century through his…
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The West has grown fat, fat, fat and gluttonous. Post-WWII, it has devoured everything and spun a global web of consumer desire, shaping identity through materialism and media. More than…
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Revanchism is the political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country, often following a war or social movement. Extreme revanchist ideologues often represent a hawkish…
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To celebrate the 10th edition of “Photographs for everyone”, the auction house Millon and the expert Christophe Goeury are opening a window onto the world of 7th Art by offering…
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Using an 8x10” view camera, Jim Dow, who studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind and was also Walker Evans’s last assistant, painstakingly photographs the light, the atmosphere, the colors,…
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Currently on view at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London is Things in a room: an ethnography of the insignificant, Spanish artist Manuel Franquelo’s first solo show in the United Kingdom,…
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I met Micheline Gingras and Bruce Gilden in front of the garbage cans on Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights, one night around midnight. They were walking their dog, and…
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In Don DeLillo’s White Noise, the novel’s protagonist and his companion, Murray, with a habit of scrutinizing cereal boxes for semiotic clues, drive into the countryside. Passing five signs that…
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