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May 2024
THE ANEMONE, THE CLOWNFISH AND DR.SONG
"The Anemone, the Clownfish and Dr. Song“ is a dive down into the magical world of acrobatic fish, living hairdos and fathers that turn into mothers.
A beautiful story told by marine biologist and fish specialist Dr. Song.
This book is collaboration of Chinese marine biologist Song He and Swiss artist Nico Krebs, who became friends during an artist residency at Kaust University by the Red Sea.
Together with Graphic Designer Sarah Infanger and Illus
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December 2020
Greater Atlanta
Mark Steinmetz completes his powerful and moving trilogy, South, with Greater Atlanta. Photographing in Atlanta and its outlying regions, Steinmetz provides his testimony on contemporary American civilization. Combining portraits and landscapes, he weaves a symbolic and lyrical investigation that subtly questions notions of progress. He further develops motifs — on the automobile, on the telephone — that were first introduced in South Central, and catalogues car culture, fast food, convenience stores, and suburban sprawl. “South is an
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October 2020
Wüstungen
In Wüstungen, Anne Heinlein (b. 1977) and Göran Gnaudschun (b. 1971) delve deep into recent German history. Between 1952 and 1988, the authorities razed more than a hundred villages, farms, hamlets, and homesteads on East German territory near the border with West Germany. The structures were in the way of a clear field of fire, difficult to guard, or simply too close to the line of demarcation. The people who lived there were forcibly resettled, forever los
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April 2020
L’EDUCAZIONE INCIDENTALE
Family and school have always been considered the places par excellence where boys and girls, boys and girls, acquire an education. Colin Ward instead decides to explore a particular aspect of education that goes beyond these institutions: accident. Here then the urban streets, meadows, woods, spaces for games, school buses, school toilets, shops and craft shops are transformed into vital places capable of offering extraordinary educational opportunities. This informal education, aimed at creativity and res
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