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December 2021
Périphérique
The first full presentation of Bourouissa’s important series revisits and contextualises the artist’s theatrical images of marginalised lives in Paris’ outskirts. In this breakthrough series of photographs, Deutsche Börse award-winner Mohamed Bourouissa chose to appropriate the codes of history painting by staging scenes with his friends and acquaintances in the Paris banlieues where they used to hang out. Confrontations, gatherings, incidents, looks, and frozen gestures all suggest a palpable tension. Invoking Del
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April 2020
PHOTOGRAPHY AGAINST THE GRAIN
Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula was originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984. Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective model of progress. Sekula taught at California Institute of Arts (CalArts) from 1985 until his death in 2013, and from that insider's positio
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October 2023
Testo tossico. Sesso, droghe e biopolitiche nell’era farmacopornografica
One's own body as a field of experimentation and reflection is the philosophical premise of Paul B. Preciado, which is given substance in one of the most daring and radical texts in contemporary philosophy. 'Toxic Text' was published in Spain in 2008, then in France and America. The Italian edition builds on these three editions with updates and modifications. 'Toxic Text' stems from Paul B. Preciado's desire to self-administer testosterone outside the medical-legal protocol of sex change. The account of
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October 2020
La fotografia come arte contemporanea
This book describes and illustrates the vast repertoire of modalities that the contemporary artist uses to produce art through photography from the 1980s to today. Documenting the work of more than 170 internationally established artists alongside those of the younger generation, from Andreas Gursky to Nan Goldin, from Richard Billingham to Yinka Shonibare and Gregory Crewdson, from Wolfgang Tillmans to Lue Delahaye and Allan Sekula, from Sophie Calle a Cindy Sherman and Gillian Wearing ... Organized by them
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April 2024
Neither Magazine Vol. 1
A groundbreaking new magazine of contemporary photography from South Asia emphasises the diversity of photographic practices, beyond stereotypes and labels.
Emerging out of the recent pandemic, Neither is interested in creating a space for new and experimental photographic practices emerging out of South Asia and from the diaspora. However, our ultimate aim is to avoid labels based on region, nation or identity, and so this publication is neither this, nor that. It offers no grand
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