Ape sep 2025 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provisoria is an alternative image archive curated by Ria Verhaeghe since the early 1990s, sourced from international newspapers. Organized by keywords, dates, and thematic groupings, the archive is an effort to explore a different dimension of photojournalism. The images-often dramatic, ambiguous, or unsettling-explore the raw and layered emotional dimensions of photojournalism. With over 60,000 images, the collection spans from the striking and dramatic to the ambiguous, grotesque, and unexpectedly tender. Three sections-Human Interest, Fusion and Mindwaves-offer insight into the archive's conceptual range. Fusion explores how we interpret images, grouping photographs by visual or symbolic qualities: featuring categories like shadows (simulacre), icons (icon), double images (glende), traces (trace), as well as those that are surreal (alien), aesthetically compelling (beauty), or energetically charged (move or MUD, for 'multi-use dimension'). Mindwaves, by contrast, is structured around formal visual qualities: packaging (emballage), texture (such as Fourche, Circle, Amorf, or Geometric), and connection (connection, including subcategories like Human, Realea, and Strip). The Human Interest section (Icarus, Verticals , WWEB and Trümmerfrauen) contains images and notes focused on human emotion, empathy, and compassion. This book presents a curated selection of over 3,500 images-a glimpse into a vast and richly layered archive that reimagines how we see, sort, and understand the photographic world. The project is supported by Be-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art in Waregem and Kortrijk. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beautiful-for whom Through Carla Rossi's lens, beauty is not a fixed idea but a performance, shaped, repeated, and refined in response to the gaze of others.In Bellissima, Rossi photographs Rebecca, a young contestant she met during the Miss Italia selections, tracing her journey from casting calls to national auditions and uncovering a system driven by spectacle, competition, and the tireless pursuit of a narrowly defined ideal of femininity.The images take shape like a choreographed sequence, where the frame becomes a stage for repetition, tension, and interruption. Each gesture-a hand on the hip, a forced smile, a sideways glance-reflects the visual grammar of Italian glamour shows, commercial spectacle, and fashion: codified, internalized, and tirelessly repeated. These movements are not spontaneous; they are learned through years of watching others perform them. By juxtaposing pixelated archival footage from Miss Italia broadcasts with her own staged portraits, Rossi examines how beauty is manufactured-by television crews, by audiences, by the women themselves. In a visual culture still shaped by patriarchal ideals, Bellissima reflects on beauty not as a static result, but as a process of reframing the self as visible, staged, and always up for negotiation-but only relevant as long as someone keeps watching. The project is supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adél Koleszár's Only Have Faith explores the violence that has plagued Mexico over the past two decades, contextualizing it within the broader role of photography in representing and perpetuating terror. The so-called war on drugs, initiated in 2008 and funded by the U.S., destabilizes communities to control resources, migration, and territories, leaving the population vulnerable. Mainstream media sensationalized violence for profit, turning photojournalism into a competitive industry, commodifying tragedy. Adél's work stands apart by focusing on landscapes, resilient individuals, and a stylistic evolution. She juxtaposes neglected infrastructure with nature's bounty, capturing the human cost through testimonies rather than graphic imagery. Adél's immersion in Mexico's culture transformed her approach, allowing her to delve deeply into the complexities of violence, reshaping her perspective. Her project, created in Veracruz, serves as a poignant reflection on the far-reaching effects of systemic exploitation under capitalism.…