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berlin, palast der republik (1978)

February 13, 2015 by slow shimo

  Photography in East Germany, because of its status as applied art, was not as heavily subject, like painting or sculpture, to censorship by the GDR. Thus, many photographers- Arnold Fischer, Evelyn Richter, Maria Sewcz, Sibylle Bergemann, Gundula Schulze, among others- were able to develop an independent practice that focused less upon the interests of the state and more on the medium’s possibility of working as an alternative network of information. Berlin Palace of the Republic, taken by Bergemann in 1978, […]

Categories: artstatic, word attic • Tags: contemporary art, photography

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sugimoto: the undecidability of seascapes

February 13, 2015 by slow shimo

Searching for the Lacanian Real within the frames of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes (1980-2002) is as quixotic as the transubstantiation of the same through language. In his photographs nothing deviates from the studium. Stark in appearance and deceptively simple in composition, they are exercises in technical prowess, systematic restraint, and meticulous planning. However, to say that I experience his images with an average affect from an acquired training is untruthful. There is, undoubtedly, a pierce—a puncture—that occurs in my encounter with the […]

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