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“Postiche” the adorning of one’s manly jowls with patchwork or quilted beards (often handed down through the generations!) “Postichery” is actually the invention of Julian Wolkenstein, who teamed up with Paul Sharp to stage this act of bold fakery – presenting their “historical findings” in a faux-exhibition catalogue from the imaginary Museum of Helsinki. Julian calls his work a “metafiction…sitting on the knife’s edge of believable/unbelievable.”
The geographic coordinates ”69.13 ° N 51.06 ° W” mean on the globe the exact position ofthe fjord Sermeq Kujalleq west Greenland. Along the bay, where men live, the houses andwooden churches decline their facades red or brown, the boats waiting to be repaired, theplants have settled.
Facing the sea, man contemplates the ice blocks that slide slowly to the surface during the melting of the ice. It’s summer. Around him, in the silence of the North, the space is hugecrack in the blocks that break off and sink into the water. Only the man to dream this white desert where the heart of an endless sky rightful echo a thousand times repeated falls. The summer is ending soon. Beneath the surface of the gray horizon, where sea and sky merge, water noise may be ice begins to form again, the elements that continue their slow evolution. In the distance, behind the facade of the houses, the man looks his ships breakthe ice and get lost on the horizon.
Facing the sea, man contemplates the ice blocks that slide slowly to the surface during the melting of the ice. It’s summer. Around him, in the silence of the North, the space is hugecrack in the blocks that break off and sink into the water. Only the man to dream this white desert where the heart of an endless sky rightful echo a thousand times repeated falls. The summer is ending soon. Beneath the surface of the gray horizon, where sea and sky merge, water noise may be ice begins to form again, the elements that continue their slow evolution. In the distance, behind the facade of the houses, the man looks his ships breakthe ice and get lost on the horizon.
In this series, I see the decay of the Arctic world: in a soft light, diffused and virginal, thetraditional ways of life give way to a consumer society. The sketch of shapes and colorsthen puts highlight a dazzling show the irreparable damage that result: the living mute, climate change, the ice break up. In a slow torpor, Earth and Man crack, it’s a white deathannounced.
Vitus Saloshanka:
Every time I thought more in my country, I pass a border. A boundary that separates two worlds have long been. Previously she was a part of the Iron Curtain and now a unified force barrier between Europe and the East. It must be mentioned that the next checkpoint is located further east at the first Russian-Japanese border. Why should I not be surprised that in conversations about my background, the ”white” before “Russian” is often ignored.
The urban landscapes that form the core of my book ”Dreamland”, are a variety of old andnewly created habitats, and describe new social structures and contradictions in what is now Belarus - a country that is due to the tense political External Relations for the Western media largely closed.
The focus of my analysis is a conflict with the often bizarre architecture of the suburbanlandscape. These newly-trained aesthetic of private living space bears the traces of time of rapid socio-economic development of the country in recent Jahrzennten and in search of lost cultural identity in today’s Belarus.
Evgenia was born in Siberian town Tiksi in Russia.
She received BA degree in art management from International University in Moscow. In 2009 graduated from International Center of Photography Photojournalism and Documentary Program. She now works as a freelance photographer between Russia and New York.
For Bush Compulsion: A Primitive Breakthrough in the Modern Mind, Emmeline de Mooij has joined her force with mixed-media artists MELANIE BONAJO and ANNE DE VRIES. They explore man’s primitive and violent human instincts, and the performing of certain rites by spending days in the woods, naked, using masks, fetish objects and adornments to recall the society they have left behind.
Angela is a precocious athlete. Making her first motions in water when she was just 4 years old, she became a professional at 15 and the year after she swam across the Strait of Messina. Because of her robust build, she is driven by her coaches to undertake a very strict dietetic regime: To win you have to give up food, they say. And she begins to eat secretly. At 18 she already weighs 70 kilos. Today, Angela is an obese woman, struggling with her body and her loneliness.
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Noemie Goudal studied graphic design and illustration before getting into photography, and perhaps that’s still evident in her work. As this image shows, her speciality is creating fantastical scenarios, part natural and part artificial, which test the viewer’s perceptions. “I wanted to mix the two worlds to see how they interact,” she tells BJP. “I wanted to see how much you can enter either the make believe or the real.”
Ethel Granger had the smallest waist of any woman ever, but it was not necessarily by choice. Her husband, astronomer William Arnold Granger, was tired of his wife’s shapeless 1920s dresses and requested that wear corsets and more figure-flattering garments. According to Vogue Italia, he thought, “if she can outshine other members of her sex in some way, this is a victory worth any amount of suffering.” Granger eventually convinced his wife to wear corsets every day, and even while sleeping. Slowly her waist transformed from 24-inches to the insanely tiny size of 13 inches—the smallest waist ever recorded by The Guinness Book of Records.
Graciela Iturbide has solidified her place as one of the most important contemporary Mexican photographers, who images reveal her love of Mexico and its people. Most recently, Iturbide has expanded her work to other cultures. This can be seen in her images of the American South in which she focuses on the effects of modern culture on the landscape. Whether at home or in foreign lands, Iturbide’s work explores cultural identity and the ways people adapt to modernization.
The Book Club is pleased to invite you to a very special exhibition launch from talented photographer, Mila Nesterova who will be exhibiting a series of large-scale fashion and still life prints and light boxes. Presented in two parts, BIOLUMINESCENCE is a powerful and exhilarating study of experimental ultraviolet lighting effects. It includes fashion and still life images, the latter being shown for the very first time. Taking from what the French call ecrire avec lalumiere translated as writing with the light, Mila Nesterova calls herself an ‘explorer of light’.
LOOKING at the debut issue of Garage, one of the most intriguing magazines to come along in years, it is not entirely clear whether this is a fashion magazine that takes more than a passing interest in art, or an art magazine that knows its stuff about fashion. The magazine, created by Dasha Zhukova, a former [...]
LOOKING at the debut issue of Garage, one of the most intriguing magazines to come along in years, it is not entirely clear whether this is a fashion magazine that takes more than a passing interest in art, or an art magazine that knows its stuff about fashion. The magazine, created by Dasha Zhukova, a former editor of Pop, and named after the contemporary art center she opened in Moscow in 2008, includes collaborations between prominent figures of both worlds and blurs the boundaries to such a degree that even the artist Dinos Chapman said his work in the magazine could be described as “a full-blown fashion shoot.” Working with the photographer Nick Knight, Mr. Chapman created a creepy dollhouse in which a puppetlike version of the model Lily Donaldson wears designer duds from Marc Jacobs
and Mary Katrantzou.
One of the more provocative covers (there are three versions) shows a Hedi Slimane photograph of a lower half of a nude model, whose crotch is covered by a green butterfly sticker created by Damien Hirst. The sticker peels off (inspired by the Velvet Underground album art by Andy Warhol) to reveal a butterfly tattoo, also of Mr. Hirst’s design. “It is so very, very different from other magazines,” said Garage’s art director, Mike Meiré, who is also the art director of the influential German magazine 032c. The masthead also includes Shala Monroque as creative director and Joan Juliet Buck as an editorial consultant, and style-world contributors like Giovanna Battaglia.
