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September 2024
FEW LITTLE THINGS
Arcangeli of these little things cannot say, stop them in images, points of view in the inner space this can do; space inhabited by signs, symbols, allegories that it is virtuous play to make them converse or conflate so that they begin to speak to us in a language before the word: never stable, opening to further meanings. (A.C.)
Arcangeli's latest work published with Grani edizioni consists of a series of im
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October 2019
DECONSTRUCTING OSAMA: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CASE OF MANBAA MOKFHI
In November 2006 Al-Zur (the Qatar-based news agency) photojournalists, Mohammed ben Kalish Ezab and Omar ben Salaad, pulled off one of the most stunning scoops in the annals of investigative journalism. Ben Kalish and Ben Salaad followed the trail of Dr. Fasqiyta-Ul Junat, a leader of Al Qaeda's military wing. This is how Joan Fontcuberta's latest fiction project starts. A complex and ironic vision of how Western World envisages the arabic world. Photography and deception m
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December 2020
A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World
To what extent can we trust photography and science? Robert Zhao Renhui explores these questions in A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World, which appears to be an authentic catalogue of plants and animals but is in fact entirely fictitious. Renhui’s guide ostensibly “documents” 55 different animals, plants and environments that have been manipulated by man but do not appear to be, and examines the myriad ways in which humans are alt
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November 2020
Rock/Music Writings
Rock/Music Writings collects Dan Graham’s influential writings about rock and roll music and its cultural impact. First published in 2009, Rock/Music Writings includes thirteen essays written between 1968 and 1988, most of which were originally printed in small magazines or journals, including Extensions, Fusion, REAL LIFE, and ZG. Graham was a friend and supporter of many musicians active in the No Wave scene that was centered around New York City in the late ’70s. In
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