#16 Photography and Painting
Whereas, at the start of the 20th century photography had an indisputable complex from painting, at the end of the century the tide appeared to have turned. Many painters took up cameras and began to express themselves through photographs.
What is the actual bond between photographs and paintings and how does photography differ from its much older partner? To what limit should it go in an attempt to be as good as painting, or perhaps to exceed the latter artistically? Does this effort make any sense? Isn’t photography more powerful thanks to its authenticity, which allows it in contrast to other media to better accent elements such as ethos, spontaneity or the possibility of dissemination thanks to easy reproduction?
#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
- Ladislav Babuščák
- Jan Kuděj
- Vojtěch Fröhlich
- Tereza Příhodová
- Dryden Goodwin
- Tom Hunter
- Radka Salcmannová
- Jindra Viková
- Běla Kolářová
- Dianne Kornberg
- Michal Pěchouček
- Akira Komoto
- Georges Rousse
- Rafał Bujnowski
- Daniel Pitín
- Theodor Pištěk
- Tereza Kabůrková
- David Stecker
- Vladimír Jindřich Bufka
- ––– Theory
- Photography and Visual Experience
- ––– Events
- Sommes-nous?
- Paris photo 2010
- Rencontres d'arles 2010
- ––– Reviews
- The Metaphysics of the Window
- The Magic of Župník's Realism
- Two Gnomes
- Czech Photography of the 20th Century
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
