Joachim Schmid and his archive. To be seen in the Photographers Gallery in London.
Author: Michael Schultze
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Wonderfull quote from likewise wonderfull PETER SCHJELDAHL:
“So-called modernism was a productive mental illness, perhaps, with heroic symptoms. (This would make so-called postmodernism a secondary malady, like a disease that a disease germ gets. I can’t stand these puffy labels, which substitute for thought.) One symptom is a belief that by changing how the world is commonly seen, you change the world. You don’t though. You only render yourself and your followers arrogantly impervious to inconvenient varieties of always uncontrollable, humbling fact. Modern art spewed self-crippling delusions, some fabulous.”
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Thinking about sculptural photography, Christa van der Niet has got a very dutch aproach towards things and their absurd or sublime beeing.
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David Maljkovic, Frustrated painter or something about painting, 2003 -
Good book dealing with the concept and design of diagrams:
“What is to be sought in designs for the display of informaiton is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual accesss to the subtle and the difficult – that is, the revelation of the complex.”
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“Doing art political, not doing political art”
lecture of Thomas Hirschhorn about his project Musée Précaire Albinet at the Walker Art Center
Heart of Darkness: Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, Thomas Hirschhorn – Walker Art Center exhibition, October 21, 2006-January 14, 2007 here
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Wim Wenders talking about the specifity and the loss of places in movies
Although Wenders is not precisely one of my heroes, I tend to come back to him… Mh, naybe one has to rethink the concept of aestheteicism.
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Alec Soth photographing Chan Marshal (aka Cat Power)
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Linn Schröder, more here