This month´ pictorial introduces a selection of visual notes by the Romanian artist Alex Bodea. Bodea works at the crossroads of visual art, poetry and journalism. Driven by a desire for eye witnessing and recording, she makes use of a language which is based on drawing and text, both of them stripped down to the […]

From 1 to 10 March, 2017, Theo de Feyter, the noted Syria specialist, archeologist and artist reporter accompanied a group of Dutch journalists, film makers and photographers in their journey through the war torn cities of Damascus, Homs and Aleppo. A selection of his drawings and gouaches is now available on his website. Theo de […]

By choosing the topic of Images and texts reproduced, the eleventh International Association of Word and Image Studies–conference aims to explore the impact of reproduction/reproducibility on artistic and literary creation, and on the textual and visual constructions of knowledge in the humanities. The conceptions and uses of reproduction have undergone radical changes in the last […]

Linda Kitson’s line drawings have recorded seminal moments in British history. This exhibition explores her work of the last 40 years including drawings of the 1982 Falklands War as the first officially commissioned female war artist to accompany troops into combat. It will also include her drawings behind the scenes at the BBC’s 50th anniversary […]

Damien Roudeau is a brillant  French graphic reporter with a special interest in the banlieu and the life of people that live in the marges of society. He published a dozen reportage notebooks. From March 2003 to July 2004, he spent one year in the community of street workers close to the Emmaus movement. In […]

Jean Cocteau, Le mot 1915 Edel Rodriguez, Der Spiegel, 2017

Winsor McCay, 1905

Feature: The creation of Science-Fiction out of the financial bubble / Technische Paradiese aus der Spekulationsblase. Theo Matejko, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, 1928 (MePri-Coll.) Pictorial: Gustave Dore´s works for “Journal pour Rire” (1847-51) – II Gustave Doré: Journal pour Rire, 1847 (MePri-Coll.)

Now, that photojournalism generates so many discussions about ethics, enforcement of stereotypes, manipulation, drawing reportage is called to rediscover itself. From the point of view of its means, it is capable of yet unexplored analytical depths. Its subjectivity exempts it from being irrevocably. The reader is aware that what is being revealed is an experience, […]

Das von Mathias Winzen geleitete Museum mit dem an die konkrete Prosa von Staumeldungen erinnernden Namen LA8 in Baden-Baden leistet seit nunmehr sieben Jahren in einer ununterbrochenen Folge spannender Themenausstellungen eine imponierende kulturhistorische Aufarbeitung des lange verdrängten und immer aktueller werdenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Daß diese Institution in ihrer Orientierung an Kunst und Technik nicht nur […]