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The work of Frances Dal Chele in Turkey is tinged with documentary formalism. It follows her discovery of a rapidly developing country experiencing considerable social upheaval. Each step corresponds to…
When I was working in Paris, I had a beautiful leather camera case made. It looked like a diplomat’s briefcase. With a necktie on, and if my suit fit, I…
In a small and delicate book with a cover soft like a jewel case, Andres Gonzalez has compiled photographs from indeterminate places and indefinite times. Space and temporality spread out…
Fashion photographs are part of our visual culture. Each image tells a story and invites us to engage with it in a pleasurable way, but it also encapsulates something of…
This book is a portrait of a lively and dynamic city, Tokyo, which the photographer Michaël Guez shot day and night, and from every angles. The artist offers viewers a…
Bibiana is eleven and lives in Tanzania. She was born an albino, a genetic disease. Her skin, lacking pigment, is highly sensitive to the sun. In a country where it…
This is the photographer speaking: “The meaning of art is not authenticity but the expression of authenticity. Truth alone can neither justify nor excuse it. Since the object itself is…
“Advertising is, after all, artificial truth,” writes Steven Heller in the introduction to Advertising From the Mad Men Era: The Sixties (Taschen). This is the second in a two-volume slipcased…
It is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts. For almost a hundred years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, a border region with an Armenian majority . The…