Paul Graham, 23rd Street, 2nd June 2011, 4.25.14 pm, Diptych from The Present The Present is the third in Paul Graham’s trilogy of projects on America beginning with American Night in 2003 and followed by A Shimmer of Possibility in 2007. While the previous projects focused on people who are socially and economically on the…
Woman in the Dunes, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964 Shoji Ueda, untitled, 1950 The history of Japanese cinema and photography is, as in most cultural contexts, deeply interconnected and related. In the post-war period a number of important films make direct or indirect reference to photographic movements. For instance, the existential meditation on sand and desire in…
Eva Stenram, Drape I, 2012 Eva Stenram’s new series ‘Drape’ is collection of vintage pin-up photographs manipulated and re-printed by the artist. The original photographs depict women situated within a domestic setting, standing or sitting in front of a window. The photographs appear aged: they are black and white, in square format, while the dated…