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December 2020

Leila Jeffreys, Des oiseaux

Leila Jeffreys invites us in this book on a journey through tropical forests and jungles around the world, to meet amazing species of birds that she has been photographing since 2008: โ€œI have always noticed that many birds have particular expressions. To capture them, I had to find a way to photograph them in a way that brought out their own character. My favorite way to photograph them is to set up a portrait studio in
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December 2020

Conrad Mcrae Youth League Tournament

These photographs were taken by Ari Marcopoulos at the Conrad McRae Youth League Summer Tournament at Dean Street Playground in Brooklyn, NY, between 2014 and 2019. The yearly tournament began in the summer of 2000 in memory of Conrad Bastien McRae (1971-2000). McRae was an exceptionally talented basketball player, who had a successful career in Europe playing for teams in France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. He died in the summer of 2000 during practice at the Orlando Magic Cam
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February 2022

Deutsch – Young German Photography, Vol. 2

This second volume in the series "Deutsch" offers a glimpse into the conceptual oeuvre of the photographer Oliver Sieber. One body of work focuses on contemporary youth culture with its use of retro-style fashions, while another series depicts the unpopulated practice rooms of musicians.
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February 2019

SOBRAS

Geraldo de Barros (1923-98) is one of the major figures of the Brazilian artistic scene during the second half of the 20th century. He was an inventive and experimental artist with a diverse practice that included painting, photography and design, as well as being one of the founding members of concrete art in Sรฃo Paulo. Following a series of strokes, de Barros returned to photography at the end of the 90s. Revisit
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March 2021

Neighborhood Stroll

Neighborhood Stroll is a collection of photographs taken outside in Geetingโ€™s own neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Void of humans, the work dissects what theyโ€™ve left behind; a sky trapped by wires, an empty can of beer, a stop sign stripped of color, leaves atop a box of pasta, a window display in disarray. Though the work was made in the very recent past, this snapshot of the late 2010โ€™s in gentrified Greenpoint fee
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October 2019

WORLD WITHOUT US

The downfall of the world is probably one of the oldest human conceptions. Representations of the End are often embedded in religious narratives predicting an apocalyptic end in which only the righteous will survive the final judgment. Since the end of the Second World War, a major shift occurred. The apocalypse is no longer a punishment of the gods or of God, but it is man himself who has gained the expertise to exterminate
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