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June 2020
THE HOUSE OF LIGHT AND ENTROPY
Formerly announced as Maps and Territories, this collection of essays written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the transformation of the notion and per
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December 2022
Sia lode ora a uomini di fama
In the summer of 1936, Fortune magazine sends a young writer, James Agee, and a photographer, Walker Evans, to Alabama to work on an article about "the daily life and environment of an average white farm family ttavoli." These are the last years of the Great Depression, but the stranglehold on cotton farmers shows no sign of loosening. Agee and Evans decide to immerse themselves in that world, to live in farmers' homes sharing every aspect of their exist
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February 2020
INFRASTRUCTURES
Infrastructures is a research-based photo project about the Russian and post-Soviet political economy, created in 2016-2019 by Sergey Novikov and Max Sher. Using documentary and staged photography, as well as writing, they look at and reflect on the political and cultural significance of both the physical infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, pipelines, etc., and 'infrastructure' of thinking and discourse that historically underpin the functioning of the State and power.
The 360-page book consists of 50 chapters, each
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November 2019
AGARTHI
When walking along the shores of Lake Bolsena one is made aware of its distinctive and particular ambience.The water with its many colors and sounds, all of which play a crucial part in the natural cycle of the lake, its flora and fauna. The lake, a fascinating and mysterious place, over which many myths and legends hover.
There are several stories about people going missing on the lake, and never found. The most rec
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