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April 2022

Fish story

Completed between 1989 and 1995, Fish Story saw Allan Sekula’s career-long pursuit of a contemporary ‘critical realism’ reach its most complex articulation. Fish Story reconstructed a realist model of photographic representation, while taking a critical stance towards traditional documentary photography. It also marked Sekula’s first sustained exploration of the ocean as a key space of globalisation. A key issue in Fish Story is the connection between containerized cargo movement and the growing internationalization of the

May 2023

Right to believe (Deluxe edition)

Right to Believe by Fyodor Telkov, a Russian photographer, describes some religious communities of the Old Believers. Russian religious movement that opposed the choices of Orthodoxy in their own country by continuing to practice the ancient practices of the Russian Church prior to the coming into force of the reforms by never rejoining the official Orthodox Church. More than 80 photos show how strong and profound is their right to believe in the ancient practices.

October 2022

Pasolini con Lacan. Per una politica tra mutazione antropologica e discorso del capitalista

The book is not simply a comparison of Pier Paolo Pasolini's thought with that of Jacques Lacan, but stems from the idea that these two protagonists of 20th-century culture are inscribed in a converging symbolic constellation. Hence the critical references to other authors such as Deleuze and Guattari, Magatti, Negri, Recalcati and Zizek. The themes of Pasolinian anthropological mutation and Lacanian capitalist discourse describe and trace a horizon of 'practices' that dislocate the political at the leve

March 2024

Foam Magazine #65: Talent

Foam Magazine Talent 2024-2025 brings together 20 innovative voices in photography from around the world. The selected artists create thoughtful reflections on our times: some allow us to see the world as it was through its archives, others bear witness to today's socio-political affairs and still others take a step into the future by inviting new technologies into their practice. In addition to the portfolios, this Talent Issue will also feature conversations between Korea

February 2021

SAMPLE

The term 'sanpuru' in Japanese indicates the faithful reproductions of dishes on a restaurant menu. From the shop windows, where they are exposed to the eyes of future and hungry customers, these fantastic imitations question us about the nature of the copy. In a sequence that alternates snapshots with photographs taken with a large format camera, the book offers a reflection on photographic genres, in particular still life. In the end, these food samples

December 2020

Sweet Sun Speaking Similitude

Since 2001 Prinz Gholam have been dealing with the self and the body as cultural constructs in their performative work. In the actions they perform together, the two artists succeed in revealing and breaking through the postures of our iconographic heritage that are consciously or unconsciously inscribed in us. Their artistic practice is laid out in this artist’s book—which follows in the spirit of the self-published booklets that Prinz Gholam have printed in rec