From the introduction to the book Kim Jong Il Looking at Things published by Jean Boîte Éditions in Paris: ‘Kim Jong Il looking at things’ is the eponymous title of a photoblog that took the Internet by storm. Created by João Rocha, an art director at an advertising firm in Lisbon, the blog is a…
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The most evocative photograph to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – a photograph meanwhile reproduced all over the world – captures Barack Obama hugging Donna Vanzant, a woman from Brigantine, New Jersey, who lost her livelihood in the disaster. Several different images of that encounter are in circulation,…
Follow this blog on bloglovin’. Mishka Henner, ‘Carretera de gandia, Oliva, Valencia, Spain’, 2011 Mishka Henner belongs to a small but growing group of artists who, instead of purely using the internet as a promotional tool for their work, appropriate photographic images circulating on the world wide web to create innovative artworks that question a…