Manchester City supporters performing the ‘Poznan’ It marked a bizarre moment in the nail-biting final match of the British Premier League season. Adopted from the fanatical supporters of the Polish football club Lech Poznań, Manchester City fans started to do the so-called ‘Poznan’: a type of dance in which fans hold on to each others’…
Boris Savelev, Speaking Lady, 1988 It is perhaps Boris Savelev’s first career as a scientist that makes his photographs look as if they don’t immediately fit into a history of representation. Born in Russia in 1947, Savelev chooses subjects which initially appear to be scattered, even accidental: the faint silhouette of a man riding on…
Laurel Nakadate, Oops!, 2000 The noughties are commonly described as a decade in which celebrity culture proliferated, a decade which saw a massive increase in the commodification of sexualized imagery, also the decade of voyeurism via TV shows such as Big Brother. The American video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate, born in 1975 and raised…