#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.
Taste Fotograf #36
#36 new utopias — Profiles
Hazel Larsen Archer
The photographer Hazel Larsen (later Larsen Archer) came to Black Mountain College as a student for the Summer Institute in 1944, where she took classes with Josef Albers…
#36 new utopias — Profiles
Nomadic State
Like every utopia, Nomadic State is a country you can’t find in one particular place. It is not located on an offshore platform or a small island bought by a billionaire longing for his private kingdom…
#36 new utopias — Profiles
Kiluanji Kia Henda
The nuanced work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda addresses the hopes of decolonizing Angola, Angola under socialism as well as the country’s present day, looking out to its possible futures—both global and retrospective ones…
#36 new utopias — Profiles
Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel
Unsettling questions and statements written on camping tents that are placed in the gallery or in public spaces have become one of the trademarks of the artistic dialogue with which Thierry Geoffroy addresses his audience…
#36 new utopias — Profiles
Apart
Literally overnight, all those meticulously scheduled plans for the next couple of months evaporated from our shared and personal calendars…
Content
- ––– Profiles
- Zuzanna Krajewska & Bartek Wieczorek
- René & Radka
- Dan Cermak
- ––– Theory
- Fashion photography - a strong genre
- ––– Events
- The 21st international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan
- Paris photo 2009
- ––– Reviews
- Miroslav Jodas: photographs 1961-2008
- In memory of Jan Reich
- Ladislav Sitenský's acquired muse
- Outside
- Vice
- Once upon a time in the east
- Traces and records
- ––– Action
- Adam Holý
- ––– Portfolios
- Tono Stano
- Daniel Stier
- Philippe Jarrigeon
- Pavel Mára
- Nadav Kander
- Fred Kramer
- ––– Tendencies
- Jan Malý
- Petr Willert
- Kamila Musilová
- Tina Tahir
- Bára Prášilová
- Jan Mahr
- Juliana Křížová & Jakub Vlček
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face
