#6 The Recycle Image
The appropriation of photographs, simple or sophisticated, stylized in the format of family or personal album, is generally well-received by larger audiences. It carries the delightful moment of informality or “naiveté”, which makes them acceptable to many of those who are bored by the excessive sophistication of postmodernism. Many artists currently recycle either amateur photographs or images notorious from the media. Others work with the family album format, historical photographs, or use various methods of recycling existing photographs. The multiplicity of approaches in this form of working with photography prompted the decision to make it the subject of the present issue of Fotograf Magazine.
#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
- Endcommercial
- m+m
- Zbyněk Baladrán
- G.R.A.M
- viktor kopasz
- ––– Theory
- tailor-made intimacies
- quoting as a way of legitimizing artwork
- ––– Events
- the 2005 international festival of photography in łodź
- the 2005 bratislava month of photography
- arles 2005
- ––– Reviews
- the union of european photography festivals
- nobuyoshi araki: tokyo flowers
- kolín 06/2005 in brief
- gerald slota: found
- a unique exhibition
- karel císař: what is photography?
- ––– Action
- Taťjana Medvecká: Interview with Michal Pechouček
- ––– History
- storm in a glass-house
- photograph with an enigma
- ––– Portfolios
- sultan & mandel
- Annu Matthew
- stefan hunstein
- Jaroslav Rössler
- ––– Tendencies
- markéta kinterová
- jan čihák interviews hannah guy
- hannah guy
- kathrine thurlow
- ondřej brody
- xavier gautier
- richard wiesner
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
