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West Bank wall graffiti – UPDATED

December 26, 2008December 31, 2008 mo

a bansky painting from a slide show on spiegel online/ another row of images on the theme can be looked up at reuters.com In the West Bank, Israel’s security barrier has started to resemble the western side of the Berlin Wall. The Israeli side is bleak and clean, but on the Palestinian side graffiti can […] Read More

â€œitâ€™s not the gaze, but the lookâ€ – Female Icons

December 21, 2008December 23, 2008 mo

What makes a woman an icon? is an art project by De Geuzen which explores the constitution of a woman as an icon: The aesthetic of this project’s archive reinforces the idea that an icon or representation is in itself a way of seeing. Seeing the symmetrical grid of images almost evoke a sense of […] Read More

CitÃ© Soleil / City of the Sun

December 20, 2008December 20, 2008 mo

The winning photo for 2008 comes from 21-year-old Belgian photographer Alice Smeets, the youngest person ever to win the competition. The picture comes from a slum in Port au Prince called the “CitÃ© Soleil,” or “City of the Sun.” (via spiegel / unicef link) Read More

December 4, 2008December 20, 2008 mo

These two articles focusing on Jean-Luc Godardâ€™s Histoire(s) du cinÃ©ma are the openers of the recent screening the past issue, as in the issue before an international poll has selected Godardâ€™s Histoire(s) (along with Gilberto Perezâ€™s The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium) as the most significant publications in our field in the past decade: […] Read More