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November 2021
Polder VIII – Tuindorp Oostzaan, Amsterdam
Tuindorp Oostzaan was the first real garden village in Amsterdam, intended to offer working-class families light, air and space and a decent accommodation. Each family has its own front door and a garden at the front and back. Located near the shipyards, but far from the city center. The village grew and the world changed. The Vegabuurt was added and in the 1950s Tutti-Fruttidorp and Tuindorp Oostzaan-West. New residents moved to Noord, thousands of peo
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November 2022
Phenomena
Sara Palmieri's PHENOMENA is a book that contracts time and redefines the space occupied by humanity in relation to nature, its scenarios of representation, imagination and control, breaking the boundaries of what is perceived real and allowing what is invisible to emerge. The work questions the hierarchies between humans and nature, discusses power relations, the manipulation of resources. Through a deep understanding of natural phenomena in relation to social ones, the photographer succeeds in constr
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November 2020
Some Los Angeles Apartments
Artist Eric Doeringer revisits each of the locations featured in Ed Ruscha’s 1965 Some Los Angeles Apartments and finds that most of the original buildings are still standing, albeit with some architectural updates. As with his other homage to Ruscha, Real Estate Opportunities, Doeringer presents his photographic documentation using the same format, layout, and deadpan humor as his artistic predecessor.
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December 2020
Graciela Iturbide, Des oiseaux
A figure in Latin American photography, Graciela Iturbide creates images that oscillate between documentary approach and lyricism. Off-center frames, graphic effects and powerful shadows create a poetic universe where the feeling of strangeness mingles with that of a harsh reality. The powerful balance of his compositions reveals skies saturated with birds, funny and unexpected situations where chickens wait quietly on market stalls, where pigeons quarrel with monkeys, elsewhere are moving clouds that resemble to rea
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