Richard Dyer, intellettuale statunitense, scrive nel 1979 l’articolo “In Defence of Disco”, pubblicato nel numero 8 del magazine “Gay Left”, un’apologia dettagliata della disco music, analizzata nelle sue caratteristiche sociali e stilistiche, descritta come portatrice di un nuovo erotismo sentimentale, più libero, quasi primitivo. Assistiamo al ribaltamento del binomio alto/basso, un vero e proprio sovvertimento …
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The Impossible Project started in October 2008 at the last preserved Polaroid plant in Enschede (The Netherlands) with the aim to save anlog Instant Photography from extinction; today it presented its significant result. After 17 months of research and development, The Impossible Project announced that it succeeded in its task of re-producing a new analog …
Gli scatti di Eleonora Scalise sono pagine strappate da tanti diari segreti, sono storie che profumano di realtà e concretezza. Poetiche e visionarie, combinano teatrini visionari con l’esigenza urgente di mettere del proprio e del vissuto. Tutti noi possiamo immedesimarci nei racconti di queste donne vere, con le loro passioni e i loro drammi. Le …
Artificial Smile is a collaboration between Stefan Stubbe and Andreas Schmelas realized in the summer semester 2009 at “Digitale Klasse”, University of the Arts, Berlin. The camera ‘Artificial Smile’ plays with the notion of perfection and auto-retouch. Created as a picture apparatus, it shows only smiling people’s picture to be taken, irrespective of their former emotional state. The team …
Amazing works from England. Born in Manchester, but residing in London, Gemma Booth photographer has photographed for big name clients such as American Eagle, Levi’s, ROXY, Carhart, Vogue, i-D, Nylon, and more. Nice use of sunlight, this work is a breath of fresh air and vintage look. Her new blog, GemBlog, has a collection of …
Photo © Justin Jin | courtesy of RVM One hundred pages, 16 x 24 cm in size, a cover encompassing front-to- back the magazine within the horizon of a single click: RearViewMirror – published by Postcart – is a new quarterly magazine dedicated to documentary photography. In the bulls’ eye of its target, RVM puts photojournalistic …
Vintage, elegance and ironic eroticism, that’s burlesque! From the great icon and most popular pin up Betty Page, during the mid century, to Dita Von Teese during these days. The italian photographer Cesare Cicardini celebrates the burlesque myth with a free exhibition in Milan at Mc2Gallery Contemporary art (from tuesday to friday, 10 – 13 …
Within the world of fashion photography, Wendy Bevan is an unexpected unique curiosity. Her rich and painterly works of art draw us into a world of ambiguity and uneasy narratives. Perusing her portfolio, one is led through a labyrinth of antique film sets in which dramatic silent performances are taking place, with disconcertingly beautiful femme …
For Lomographers worldwide the Lomo LC-A+ has always been worth its weight in gold. This is why the Lomographic Society International decided to bring the inner values of the Lomo LC-A+ to its outside and created the Lomo LC-A+ Gold. Entirely plated with 24 karat gold and wrapped in smooth leather with croco-stamping, this treasure is limited to …
Artist Yeondoo Jung takes children’s drawings and creates photographs based on them.
Winter is so yesterday. Pink is the new deal! Right on time for Valentines Day the Lomographic Society International created a new shiny outfit for the Fisheye 2 camera. Passionate pink, cool metal and a quirky fisheye won’t fit anyone but the Fisheye 2 Pink. Pink plastic passion: world’s only 35mm compact fisheye camera in …
Lauren Dukoff (born 1984) is one of the most promising young photographer of the last years. She learned photography from her father and got her start by documenting the musical career of long time friend Devendra Banhart. Chronicle Books published her first book Family in 2009. Family collects 100 of Dukoff’s portraits and candid images …
