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The Art of Louis Sabattier I: 1897 – 1904
The trained history painter Louis Sabattier was one of the most interesting press illustrators of the late 19th century. None of the numerous accredited special artists managed to catch the tense atmosphere of the spectacular trials against Alfred Dreyfus and Émilé Zola in a comparable subtle way. Many of his soft focussed photo-paintings for the […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage IV: Inner Africa
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. 6) Inner Africa For Smith, the street cries pictures had a decisive advantage in comparison to the costume book. It was a speaking medium associated with the acoustic notion of original sound meant to suggest directness and authenticity. Every vendor was attributed a unique […]
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The Cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. London 1839 , Posthumous Edition
“Now as the Cries of London are sometimes the topic of conversation, the author of the present work is not without the hope of finding, amongst the more aged as well as juvenile readers, many to whom it may prove acceptable, inasmuch as it not only exhibits several Itinerant Traders and other persons of various […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage III: The Cries of London
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. 5) The Cries of London In Great Britain, the years after Waterloo were characterised by a deep economic depression. Big cities were flooded by jobless persons, war invalids and discharged soldiers. While visiting London in 1820, Théodore Gericault captured the descending social misery in […]
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Katerfamily
Henrieke Ribbe belongs to the very few real masters in the empathic art of portraiture. Her documentation on the Berlin club Kater Holzig was created in 2013/14. Together with her fiancée Jake Basker (aka Jake The Rapper), then a resident DJ at Kater Holzig, she came up with the idea to paint the people behind […]
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The new flesh / Das neue Fleisch, Turkish and Kurdish butcher shops in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Xiaopeng Zhou, born in 1985 in Guangzhou, has studied art the the Academy of his hometown until 2008, but is now living in Germany and about to complete his Master exam at Academy of Art Berlin-Weissensee. The pictorial is an excerpt from his 76-part series of reportage drawings created within four weeks – starting from […]
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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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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.
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Suzanne von Borsody, Hamburg 18.02.2009 , Ernst Deutsch Theater ( Stück: Spurensuche) (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
The series of drawings was made by the Korean artist Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi in the course of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project. Here she records the activities of the noted German actress Suzanne von Borsody behind the scenes of the Ernst Deutsch Theatre in Hamburg.
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Graphic echolocations of societal relevant spaces – In conversation with Jan Rothuizen on his soft maps and reports.
Dutch artist Jan Rothuizen has developed a very special and entertaining kind of topographical journalism, which allows him to leave the usual platforms of the art circuit behind. MePri: You have been making this kind of supra-factual or “soft”- cartographies since 2005 in various international megacities: Guangzhou, Cairo, Beirut and in your native town Amsterdam. […]