Art history is filled with attempts to deceive the eye. Seeking mimesis, artists develop tricks to make the illusion perfect. This movement inspired Michael Augustin to bring together two separate worlds which…
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Following a trip to China, Cristina de Middel proposes a reinterpretation of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung–or the second top selling book after the Bible. In Party, her revised edition resembling a facsimile, De…
In the style of an anthropologist, the artist Hans Eijkelboom uses photography as a means to research appearances and identities. Intrigued by the evolution of consumer society and how it influences individuals,…
Nerhol is a pair of Japanese artists comprising Yoshihisa Tanaka and Ryuta Iida who were both born at the start of the 1980s. Misunderstanding Focus is a series of various portraits hollowed in…
In 1968, a youthful Paul Fusco covered Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral for Look magazine. Fusco boarded the train taking RFK’s body from New York to Washington, photographed the thousands of Americans paying…
Until October 2, 2014 the Savannah College of Art presents the exhibition Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country Photographs, 1972-2004. The exhibition moves beyond the singular image of the famous statue and…
German-born photographer Gerd Ludwig is the recipient of the 2014 Dr. Erich-Salomon Award, the lifetime achievement award of the German Photographic Association. In previous years, publications and respected photographers like Paolo Pellegrin,…
Thomas Sauvin is a French collector who moved to China in 2003. In an industrial zone north of Beijing there is a company that recycles silver nitrate. This sort of ‘silver…
Thomas Vanden Driessche is a photographer and a member of the collective Out of Focus. At the start of 2012, he discovered a photo booth not far from his place in Brussels.…