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Donovan Wylie: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010

Donovan Wylie: the Maze prison Photo: MAGNUM PHOTOS / DONOVAN WYLIE I was delighted to see the work of Donovan Wylie again. I first saw his project ‘The Maze’ at a lecture he gave years ago at my university. The course was outstanding and had some fantastic connections due to the quality of the lecturers [...]

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When in Rome, visit Elliott Erwitt’s Rome

Elliott Erwitt’s Rome @http://www.museodiroma.it Posted via web from roomnoir’s posterous Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d106').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

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Monday Essential Photography Reading- New Topographics

Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape © Lewis Baltz / from LACMA Lewis Baltz (United States, b. 1945). “South Corner, Riccar America Company, 3184 Pullman, Costa Mesa,” from the series “New Industrial Parks,” 1974. Gelatin silver print; 6 x 9 inches. LACMA traces photography’s New Topographics movement -News Article from the LA Times If you are [...]

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Paris Photo

http://www.parisphoto.fr/ Hope to see you there. It have not seen an exhibition since Perpignan, I am having withdrawal symptoms. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d72').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

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Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives

Exhibition on at the Wellcome Collection- 26 November 2009-6 April 2010. I am really looking forward to this – scientific photography from the 1900s is fascinating. With hindsight its easy to ask”what were they thinking?”, but a lot of these ideas have stuck around in modern times and contribute to the way we see identity. This [...]

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