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Photography

Thinking with the eyes

PROFILE: Chantal Akerman opens a cinematic space without demands for productivity. Her idiom is that of the auteur, where she has full artistic control over and ownership of the films. In her cinematic philosophy, time is a form where time seemingly stands still. And what does Christine Smallwood say about her work? MODERN TIMES has been on exhibition – and has read.
Terje Dragseth -

The story of the moral victors?

ARCHITECTURE: o Leading figures in the campaign to preserve the Y-block have now published a 431-page book of commitment, and often anger. The international reaction to Norway's demolition drive prompted much reflection at the time.
Sverre Følstad -

A detective journey around the photo studios of the past

PHOTOGRAPH: Cultural researcher Özge Baykan Calafato has collected a fascinating photo archive by trawling Istanbul's markets for antiques and rarities. With a selection of these photographs, she analyzes the relationship between population and state ideology during the establishment of the secular republic of Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s.
Nina Trige Andersen -

It lurks fearfully over everything

PHOTO: There are many associations that arise in the encounter with Kjell Karlsen's photographs: some stanzas of a poem, fragments of a film scene, popular culture, fine culture, dreams and fantasies. At the same time, the images give a sense of a post-apocalyptic dystopia, where everything familiar has disappeared.
Sverre Følstad -

Iconic paintings and photographs

Role models: In public Latin America, the addiction heroes Bolívar and San Martin or Che Guevara and Evita are either idolized or satanized through paintings and photographs. This book takes a closer look at why.
Rune V. Harritshøj -

Weird Norwegian history: 29 thought-provoking interviews

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.
Ellen Lande -

Photography in a climate time

Copenhagen Photo Festival: Photography can capture nature, document it, but also process nature. Showcase the being, the exotic, the disappearing in a special way.
Steffen Moestrup -

Absorbed by the exterior

PHOTO: Photographer Helmut Newton's controversial cult status persists long after his death.
Melita Zajc -

Japanese women's views on life, gender roles and society

PHOTO: Japanese women struggle between traditional gender roles, an expectation of work effort and reproduction while maintaining the role of "good wife, wise mother".
Patricia Sequeira Brás -

South African identity

PHOTO: South African photographer Santu Mofokeng recently died at the age of 63. His image essays from the time during and after apartheid, however, live on.
Nina Beach -

A desire for materiality

PHOTOGRAPH: Can a photo hit us? Or can it show limitations imposed on the individual by familial and societal expectations?
Nina Beach -

To tell something important about others

PHOTOGRAPHY : World renowned photographer Fred Baldwin has published his memoirs at the age of 90. Is this a peculiar insight into a person who, through everything and everyone he meets, first and foremost sees himself?
Nina Trige Andersen -

Skinless exposure

Anorexia: shameless uses Lene Marie Fossen's own tortured body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self portraits – relevant both in the documentary self Portrait and in the exhibition Gatekeeper.
Ellen Lande -

The photo model that would not be filmed

SKY LENSELUS: The camera-dependent photo model is now shredding the son's worn-out documentary, while criticizing the image-driven model industry she has had as a livelihood.
Astra Soldiers -

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.
João Vilela Geraldo -

The explosive power of the snapshot

ABOUT THE PHOTO BOOK: An intense and multifaceted conversation in several layers about the photo book, which with its contextual premise heightens the snapshot.
Ellen Lande -
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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