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Photography

Currency of visibility

PHOTOGRAPH: Hannah Starkey's retrospective photo book depicts a maturing journey in women's eyes.
Ellen Lande -

The river as the life blood of the city

PHILIPPINES: A photo book shows us how the world looks to many. A garbage dump. A mockery of human dignity. A ruined ecosystem. Can the power of the photo assist us in the desire for change?
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Camera women in the firing line

PHOTOGRAPH: A diverse selection of skilled war photographers is highlighted in oblivion in two new exhibitions at the Preus museum: War Time (1935 – 1950) and Lee Miller.
Ellen Lande -

Mafia power

Ny Tid met the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia during the Berlinale for a conversation about her photographic work and the Italian mafia today.
Astra Soldiers -

The knot in the heart

Photographer Eugene Richards has documented fates in crack environments, at emergency rooms and mental hospitals for well over 50 years. What has driven him?
Truls Lie -

The fools in the streets of New York

Helen Levitt's exhibition shows how life in New York City's streets in the nineteenth century could be fun and fun – especially for the little ones.
Pinar Ciftci -

Photographic turning operation

All her life she has been her world-famous father's favorite object. What happens when master photographer Raghu Rai's daughter points the camera lens at her father?
Ellen Lande -

The importance of photography

Does photo art have the potential to change society and politics?
Truls Lie -

Photography for change

Dorothea Lange and Vanessa Winship's joint exhibition in London show political photography from two very different eras – how much is still the same. 
Hanne Ramsdal -

From the darkness of the soul

Internationally, he is considered a legend, but in Norway few have heard of war photographer Stanley Greene, who died earlier this year.
Kaisa Ytterhaug -

Burning banalities

Christina Hagen makes a sharp stance on political correctness – but the confusion of style expressions clashes with criticism.
Steffen Moestrup -

The silence as it happens

Mustafa Saeed's subdued portraits raise the question of whether we have passed the most dramatic imagery of distress.
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Intimate portrait of an iconic photographer

The name Robert Mapplethorpe probably gets most people thinking about New York's bohemian life of the 1970 century, controversies and his homoerotic BDSM photographs that upset the public.
Bianca-Olivia Nita -

The aspiring street photographer

Chinese Fan In photographs capture the lives, dreams and hard work of individuals in an expanding metropolis.
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Photo book – an expanding language

The photo book fills a void that the digital viewing space cannot fill, and therefore becomes even more important for a generation flooded with images.
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The living image as recognition

The use of photography and film for ethnographic purposes is nothing new. But vivid images are more than just entertainment and storytelling.
Steffen Moestrup -
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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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