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Saul Leiter and Robert Weaver, an artistic dialogue
„We shared a lot of ideas and we liked a lot of the same things. (…) We had quite a bit in common beside from the fact that we were friends.“ (Saul Leiter) I: Street Scenes in Slumberland. II: On Robert Weaver. Alexander Roob in conversation with Saul Leiter. III: Robert Weaver: The Vogelman Diary […]
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Robert Weaver VII: The Woolworth – Motion
What´s Come Over Old Woolworth? (Fortune, January 1969) “There are assignments for `Fortune´, where I am realistically and symbolically going up the corporate ladder at Woolworth´s. It starts with the stockboy, and I use chairs as a metaphor for power. The chairs become more and more elaborate as we go to top. The drawings where […]
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Comics as reports, a selection # 1 (MePri-News 4/9/09 – 25/1/12)
4.9.2009 Josh Neufeld´s Hurricane Katrina Report Josh Neufeld is known as a long-time contributor to Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical “real life” series American Splendor. In his graphic novel A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge he tells the story of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath „from the perspective of real people still dealing with the storm each and […]
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Reportagedrawing in digital representation
In order to explore the options for graphic journalism in the digital area, Berlin based illustrator Bo Soremsky created an interactive court report on the legal proceedings against the popular weathercaster Jörg Kachelmann. Drawn reportages require an interesting topic which is told in an authentic and exciting way. Of course this can be achieved by […]
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Werner Pflaum and Peter Schlosser, Bad Gastein , Bad Gastein, Austria (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
In this adventurous episode of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi accompanies two Austrian hunters on their nightshift in a deerstand.
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Graphic reports from the modern wars in Afghanistan
25.1.2011 Ballpoint Memories from Afghanistan The English Russia blog presents an anonymous Ballpoint Soldier: “He was on a few wars, in Afghanistan, in Tajikistan and then in Chechnya. He got in real battles and lost many of his friends in action, that´s a true story true soldier. Everywhere he went he took one thing with […]
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Mysteries of the Central Station (exhibition review)
Not translated: Dass die Mysterien der Gegenwart am Hauptbahnhof stattfinden ist nicht erst seit Beuys und Stuttgart 21 klar. Zu Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wurde er als Emanation des technischen Fortschritts und Brennpunkt großstädtischer Betriebsamkeit wahrgenommen, als Zentrum eines halluzinogenen “Reichs der Kraft.” So lautete der Titel einer populären Publikation von Artur Fürst von 1926, […]
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Journal de L’expédition des Portes De Fer (1839 – 44)
The well-known writer and literary critic Charles Nodier, who was a close friend of the Duc d´Orleans, who had died shortly beforehand, was responsible for the text. The illustration work featured three of the most prominent exponents of artistic Orientalism, the two painters Adrien Dauzats and Gabriele Descamps and draughtsman Auguste Raffet. But the work […]
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CS-Report: Morning conference at The Guardian with Alan Rusbridger , London, 2002
Impressions of a morning conference in the editorial office of The Guardian with editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. The British journal shook the foundations of Rupert Murdoch´s News Corporation by uncovering the phone-hacking scandal and was named newspaper of the year at the 2011 Press Awards for its partnership with WikiLeaks.
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Ihlayel A.M. Megdad, Humsum 03.02.2009 , Krankenhaus Husum, Notaufnahme (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
In this episode of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi observes the daily routine of a physician in the emergency department of the city hospital Husum.