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July 2020

PICTURE INDUSTRY: A PROVISIONAL HISTORY OF TECHNICAL IMAGE 1844-2018

Spanning from the late 19th century to the present with images produced for scientific and artistic contexts, Picture Industry includes the work of more than 70 artists and practitioners. An essential anthology of historical and theoretical texts, it reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as a scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on
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November 2021

I can’t stand to see you cry

"A year and change into father's diagnosis, his nightly calls began to become more frequent. My sister and I, his youngest children, spent countless hours in his room caring for him as his body gave up. Many nights we'd leave his room both knowing his condition was getting much worse, but we chose to say nothing of it." I can't stand to see you cry is an exploration of Texas and the surrounding states, as
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March 2021

The Afterlife Of The Photographic Subject – In The Photographs Of Nan Goldin And Julia Margaret Cameron

The concept of this work is an African vision of afterlife known as Sasa and Zamani. Sasa refers to the period during which the deceased is survived by people who knew him or her in their lifetime, while in the Zamani period, everyone who knew the person has died. Marwan T. Assaf examines the photographs of the departed through the prism of Sasa and Zamani with a focus on the works of the artists Nan
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April 2024

Corale Preci. Un libro

Corale, now a cultural association, began its activity in 2017 as an informal group operating in the Preci area since after the 2016 Amatrice earthquake, with the support of the Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria and the support of the Preci municipality. Preci is the other protagonist of this story. A town in Umbria, at the gateway to the Monti Sibillini Park and on the border with Marche. Some 15 hamlets are united under the name 'Preci', but it is P
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October 2020

Portfolio!

Portfolio! is a sequence of photographs, be it a coherent project or a simple collection. The personal figure of each author is revealed not only in the technical and operational skills, but in the conception of their sequence, in the choice of photos, in their arrangement, in the preparation of the work and in the textuality that surround it. Creating photographic sequences and reading them are basic experiences and skills for both professionals and ent
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October 2020

Togliatti. La fabbrica della Fiat

August 21, 1964: Palmiro Togliatti dies. August 28, 1964: the city of Stavropolsul-Volga, a thousand kilometers south-east of Moscow, is renamed Togliatti. April 22, 1970: on Lenin's 100th birthday, the first Zhigulรฌ car comes out of the AutoVAZ in Togliatti; in 1976 the units produced will be three million: the great leap forward of Soviet motorization. Between 1966 and 1970 there is an Italian epos: to build the gigantic production plant in Togliatti - a factory twice the size of Mirafiori, in a city born toget
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