#8 Landscape
Landscape can be conceived as the scenery of an escape from the city, as the post-industrial arena of contemporary quests for connections between modern-day layers of civilization and the underlying notions of romanticism, or as a natural backdrop for the projections of the self. In recent decades, landscape photography has seen the return of new conceptual approaches. These post-conceptualist efforts now regard photography as the final product. Their interventions into landscape are not huge or dramatic, yet they are intended to convey more than a mere aesthetic experience. Often they play a game with the viewer, yet this is a game the meaning of which the viewer must put into question, in order to get through to the next level of the artist’s strategies.
#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
- Nicolai Howalt & Trine Sondergaard
- Sarah Pickering
- Steffi Klenz
- Bill Finger
- Juliane Eirich
- ––– Events
- Month of photography in Paris and Paris photo 2006
- Month of photography in Bratislava 2006
- Photokina and the international photo scene in Cologne
- ––– History
- On the waves of photogeny
- Josef Pirka - A Forgotten Czech Photographer
- ––– Portfolios
- Pavel Baňka
- Elina Brotherus
- Jan Ságl
- Jiří Šigut
- Magdalena Jetelová
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
