Nadav Kander began a three year survey of secret Soviet scientific cities and missile test sites when he learned of the existence of two “closed” cities on the border between Kazakhstan…
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The imposing steps of what looks to be a large municipal building bear the poignant message of the South African women who marched on Pretoria in 1956 against the law…
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From the early 1950s to the early 1970s, the most beautiful woman in the world was French. Some thought her lips unbearably pouty, her voice nagging, her legs like a…
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Since the 1980s, AIDS has killed more than 20 million people worldwide. But at the beginning of the epidemic, the American government and the media regarded the disease as a…
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) remains one of the most significant names in the history of photography, despite the fact that his career was cut short by his death in Brixton aged 34.…
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The Night Climbers of Cambridge is a book that documents nocturnal and illegal climbing on historical buildings in Cambridge organised by students in the 1930s. The book is a real guide…
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Leandro Erlich is famous for misappropriating the usual elements found in urban surroundings in order to create illusory installations altering the spectator’s perception. Bâtiment is a faithful reproduction of a 19th century Parisian…
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Watching You Watch Me is a series of portraits of passers‐by looking at themselves in a mirror. Taken without them being aware, thanks to a system of windows transformed into a…
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Born in Havana in 1947, Mario Algaze is master of his craft, on par with such giants as Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and the legendary Manuel Alvarez-Bravo. In 1960, Algaze and his…
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Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets…
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