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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water Towers, grid of nine black-and-white photographs of water towers

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies, Anonymous Sculptures and the Düsseldorf School

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Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed water towers, blast furnaces and gas holders for forty years. A guide to their typologies, method, critics and legacy.

Categories Artists Tags 20th Century Photography, Black and White Photography, Conceptual Photography, Contemporary Photography

Exploring Shadows: The Magic of Ansel Adams’ “The Negative”

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Unlocking Shadows: Ansel Adams’ Masterpiece Revealed!

Categories History of Photography, Must read books for photographers, Theory of Photography Tags Analog Photography, Ansel Adams, Black and White Photography
Portrait of Sebastião Salgado in Rio de Janeiro, 2016

Sebastião Salgado: A Lyrical Witness of the Anthropocene

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Sebastião Salgado spent half a century turning gold mines, famine camps and rainforests into monumental black-and-white pictures. In the same years, he and his wife replanted a ruined cattle ranch … Read more

Categories Documentary Photography, Featured Artists Vol.2, History of Photography Tags Black and White Photography, Environment & Anthropocene

Flavie Guerrand

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I slid across the dancefloor This is a selection of photographs taken from the series « I slid across the dancefloor ». Took over the span of nearly 20 years, … Read more

Categories Documentary Photography, Featured Artists Vol.2, Fine Art Photography Tags Analog Photography, Black and White Photography

Kenny Ros

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This is an abstract interpretation, of a surreal, yet factual, story. The horror depicted in this presentation took place in Nazi camps  in Belgium, France & the Netherlands between 1940 … Read more

Categories Documentary Photography, Featured Artists Vol.2, Fine Art Photography Tags Black and White Photography, Conceptual Photography
Henri Van Lier, author of the essay on the photographic non-act, in a blue-toned front and profile portrait

The Photographic Non-Act: Henri Van Lier’s Essay Explained

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The photographic non-act is the idea, argued by the Belgian philosopher Henri Van Lier, that a photograph is not something a person writes or draws. It is an imprint that … Read more

Categories Indexicality in Photography, Ontology of Photography, Theory of Photography Tags André Bazin, Black and White Photography, Charles Sanders Peirce, Roland Barthes, Semiotics

Su Kui

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The System of Objects. Now that the abundance of objects has become an important feature of society, it is no longer people surrounding objects, but objects closely surrounding people. The … Read more

Categories Experimental Photography, Featured Artists Vol.1, Fine Art Photography Tags Black and White Photography, Chinese Photography, Conceptual Photography, Contemporary Photography, Staged Photography, Surrealism

Yana Kononova

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Lagoons, 2020. From late spring to early autumn, I go on lonely expeditions to Ros River – to the places of ancient igneous rocks outcrops dating back to prehistoric times … Read more

Categories Featured Artists Vol.1, Fine Art Photography, Landscape Photography Tags Black and White Photography, Conceptual Photography

Rogéiro Vieira

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“One of the five kids in the car in Rio, it could be me,Or Douglas who went to Jardim Brasil.It could be me.Another innocent killed at night and no one … Read more

Categories Documentary Photography, Featured Artists Vol.1, Portrait Photography Tags Black and White Photography, Conceptual Photography, Political Photography

Joseph O’Neill

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This photography portfolio titled “The Shape of Things” aims to open and expand your awareness of your urban environs. Living constantly busier lives we as urbanites forget to look around, … Read more

Categories Architectural Photography, Featured Artists Vol.1, Fine Art Photography Tags Black and White Photography, New York, Urban Photography
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