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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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Examples of handdrawn photo-views and photo-graphic hybrids [Handdrawn Photo-Views by Louis Glaser] (Recommended by Ben Katchor)
Souvenir postcards are a major source of visual documentation, in some cases the only surviving images of places and things.There are several souvenir albums online published by Louis Glaser from Leipzig in the last decades of the 19th century. The Catskill archive explains that these views were made to simulate photographs in texture and tone, […]
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“I took with me a painter” – Archaeologists, artists, draughtsmen and photographers in excavation.
After a conversation on archaeology and drawing, which took place in the MePri in 2006, this rather historical contribution is a second inquiry in the relationship between art, visual documentation and archaeology. I. Drawing an excavation In a series of drawings of the archaeological work at the ancient hill of Munbaqa in Syria I tried […]
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Jan van der Heyden – Vedutismus und Pyroreport. (Ausstellungsbesprechung)
No translation yet. Die Ausstellung „Jan van der Heyden, painter and inventor“ im Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2. 2. – 30.4. 2007)Möglicherweise hat es eines derart exklamatorischen Obertitels wie „Braand /Fire!“ bedurft und eines nicht minder sensationistischen Vergleichs des Subjekts der Ausstellung mit Leonardo da Vinci, um über die obligatorischen Amsterdam-Pauschaltouristen hinaus noch weitere Besucher in die […]
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On Luis Camnitzer’s etching cycles, especially “Agent Orange “(1983-84)
At the end of the 1960s, the Uruguayan sculptor, graphic artist and art critic Luis Camnitzer (born 1937 in Lübeck), living in exile in America, founded the New York Graphic Workshop together with his colleagues Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo. The aim of this venture was to remove the aura of elitism from artistic […]
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Tinted India. Day & Son and the Photolithographs in “Tent Life in Tigerland”
In his 1888 collection of stories bearing the somewhat excessive title „Tent Life in Tigerland. Being Sporting Reminiscences of a Pioneer Planter in an Indian Frontier District“, we find former Australian Minister of Education James Inglis looking back to an adventurous stretch of his life as an indigo planter in the mangrove forests of Northern […]