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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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…
When Jacob Aue Sobol was 20 years old his father was killed in an accident, aged just 40. As Jacob turned 40 himself, he began to reflect on the body…
During the 1980s by the Siberian artist Nikolay Bakharev worked as a mechanic and communal services factory photographer in the USSR. To supplement his income he would solicit work as…
Contrarily to the majority of encyclopedic approaches initiated in the second half of the 19th century, constructed on the principle of the collection and classification of different preexisting data, images…
In most of the societies in the coastal region between Ghana and Nigeria, funerals represent one of the most important events in social life. They respond to the need to…
Peter is an approach to Russia, a nation at once so old and so young, established as it now exists only twenty-five years ago, in 1991, out of the dismembered…
Ellen von Unwerth’s puckish humor pervades the pages of Heimat (home in German), an enchanted tour around Bavaria. The renowned fashion and music photographer revisits her childhood homeland to shoot…
Magma is an invitation to an internal journey, basically composed of self-portraits and landscapes. Its title here is just the right metaphor. This work is a narrative construction, a stroll…
After World War II the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) in San Francisco hired renowned photographer Ansel Adams to establish one of the first fine art photography departments in…