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Self-staging as an artistic strategy

Randi C. Solheim -
PHOTO: Frida Kahlo was at the center of a sophisticated international circle of artists, actors, diplomats and film directors. In Mexico, she was early on a tehuana – a symbol of an empowered woman who represents a different ideal of women than that rooted in traditional marianismo. But can we also see the female stereotypes 'whore' and 'madonna' in one and the same person?
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Weird Norwegian history: 29 thought-provoking interviews

Ellen Lande -
BOOK: Queer icons deals with a generation that lived with the fear of AIDS, exclusion and criminalization – and not least with the pain from the lack of role models.
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An Italian photo cavalcade

Camilla Shams -
PHOTO: It would be almost fifty years before Paolo di Paolo's daughter found the pictures his father had taken, and confronted him with his hitherto unknown past as a (Italian) celebrity photographer.
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ASIA: "We are the ones who are far away, while they are in the center"

Anders Dunk -
TECHNOLOGY: According to Kevin Kelly, technology writer, photographer and publicist, the best thing you can do sometimes is slow down technology.
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Dialogue between sculpture and photography

João Vilela Geraldo -
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?"

João Vilela Geraldo -
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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PHOTO / Frida Kahlo was at the center of a sophisticated international circle of artists, actors, diplomats and film directors. In Mexico, she was early on a tehuana – a symbol of an empowered woman who represents a different ideal of women than that rooted in traditional marianismo. But can we also see the female stereotypes 'whore' and 'madonna' in one and the same person?




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