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#14 Commerce

Commerce is a theme that has undergone marked development both in the field of gallery photography (photographs as a collector commodity) and also mainly in that of commissioned photography, tied mainly to the production of product catalogues, design of architecture and to advertisement and fashion.  In both latter cases the certain controversy of this theme is much stronger/more marked.  Advertisement, or fashion is according to some, who under their breath disdain their commercial colleagues, a „perfumed carcass“ (as Oliviero Toscani called it) and for others it is, to the contrary, „a true art, speaking to the broad masses.“  In this issue of Fotograf we would like to contribute to the discussion of where commercial liability and creativity begin and end, and how the fields of fine art and applied photography can influence, or be tolerated by, certain creative artists.

#39 delight, pain — Profiles

Jeremy Shaw

Jeremy Shaw’s profile could easily be presented as the trajectory of a succesful artist in which long-term themes are convincingly developed, the productive complexity of their elaboration increases, and in which exhibitions in the world’s leading institutions increase as well as the works represented in their collections…

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#39 delight, pain — Profiles

Zara Pfeifer

The Viennese housing complex Alterlaa can certainly be seen as an embodied form of utopian architecture. We can find this monumental project, designed in the 1970s by Harry Glück, in the 23rd district, in a peaceful area on the outskirts of the city…

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#39 delight, pain — Profiles

Paul Maheke

“There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise”, begins a seductive essay by Audre Lorde. “The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling…

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#39 delight, pain — Wanted

Marie Tomanová

It Was Once My Universe is the story of a homecoming after a decade in the United States. The family farm – a dream house, a refuge for the imagination in exile – has become a foreign and uncanny world apart, moving in its own time field…

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#39 delight, pain — Profiles

Julie Béna

Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading…

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