(Dis)connecting Klein + Moriyama

William Klein, New York, 1954-55 The photographs of William Klein and Daido Moriyama are currently on display at the Tate Modern. It is an enormous exhibition, covering a lot of space in the galleries with several hundred photographs on display. The size of the exhibition is appropriate for two artists who were, and still are,…

Seeing For Others

Fatma Bucak, Omne Muem, Nihil Muem II, 2012. Image copyright belongs to the artist. Edited by the London based photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg, Seeing For Others brings together the work of 21 individuals studying photography at the Royal College of Art between 2011 and 2012. The concept for the book is at once simple yet…

Interrogating the ‘Shuttered Society’

Support this blog to help us keep going, and going, and going ….. Christian Borchert, Familie W. (Schutzpolizist, Montiererin) – Family W. (Policeman, Factory Worker), Berlin 1983 The exhibition ‘Geschlossene Gesellschaft’, literally translated as the closed or the shuttered society, is a survey of art photography in the German Democratic Republic 1949-1989 currently on display…