#1 Face
Two types of absence are visualised in the meeting of the face with photography and of photography with the face: one is inherent to photography, and the other belongs solely to the face. The first is the Barthesian absence of the moment of taking the photograph that is lost in the instant when the light drafts the image in the photosensitive emulsion. From then on, the photographic image only stubbornly repeats this single, but inevitable and unquestionable assertion: this object has been here, but its reality consists precisely in that it is unreachable – it is a moment which has been and will never repeat itself again.
#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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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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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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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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Content
- ––– Profiles
- Jolana Havelková
- Dita Pepe
- Lily Almog
- ––– Events
- Photographic Encounter in Arles
- Leica Gallery Prague
- The Network Conference and the 7th Summer School of Photography in Poprad
- Encontros da Imagem 2002 in Braga
- Fourth Photo Biennale in Moscow
- Photo Espaňa 2002 in Madrid
- The Manfred Heiting Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
- Ninth FotoFest in Houston
- ––– Reviews
- Fototorst
- An Anthology of Five Generations of Slovak Photography
- Czech Photographic Avant-Garde 1918-1948
- A History of Photographic Portraiture
- Around Photography with Susan Sontag
- ––– History
- 1936: Photography and /history/ Structuralism on a Date in Prague
- ––– Portfolios
- Ivan Pinkava
- Fazal Sheikh
- Jitka Hanzlová
- Torben Eskerod
- Karel Novák
- ––– Survey
- Milena Slavická
- Tomáš Pospiszyl
- Tomáš Pospěch
- Martina Pachmanová
- Petr Nedoma
- Josef Moucha
- Jan Mlčoch
- Pavel Liška
- Karel Císař
- Vladimír Birgus
- ––– Tendencies
- Karin Müller
- Jan Freiberg
- Boris Missirkov & Georgi Bogdanov
- Vojtěch Vlk
- Jesper Alvaer
- Matthew Monteith
- Tomaž Gregorić
- Tereza Severová
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
