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João Vilela Geraldo

Geraldo is a Portuguese cultural worker and curator.

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PHOTO ART: Over the course of thirty years, large museums have gone from being underfunded, sleepy places to audience magnets and economically important tourist attractions. We find a counterweight in small museums – such as those mentioned in this essay from Greece. What you choose to present to others matters less than where you choose to do it.
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Dialogue between sculpture and photography

DISPLAY: Peter Lindbergh's photographs of Alberto Giacometti's small, secret sculptures – put together in an exhibition: Showing intimacy is a challenge. You come as a visitor, an intruder…
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"Why do you read so much?"

PHOTO: We do not need bookstores just to buy books… Photographer Horst Friedrichs has photographed places that are filled with books.
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ITALY: a strange and surreal case of subtle surrender

PHOTO: Is Italy Europe's most extraordinary and ordinary country? Maria Vittora Trovato takes pictures of its shadow pages.
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Blind doña Maria sees a borderless landscape

BOOK: The book Doña Maria und Ihre Träume offers an exceptional journey through Venezuela's rugged and mysterious desert landscape with a touch of magical realism.
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