Taryn Simon: the woman in the picture
Uma entrevista com Taryn Simon sobre a sua mais recente exposição na Tate Modern.
She made her name with An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, published in 2007, a book that delves deep into a secret America in images that are often both detached and ominous: a nuclear waste storage facility in Washington State; a cryopreservation unit where bodies are frozen just after death; a bio-containment laboratory where deadly animal diseases are studied; a death row outdoor recreational cage; a cave where a sleeping black bear and its cubs are monitored by biologists studying hibernation.
Ursula von Rydingsvard no The Art Newspaper
Uma escultora que faz obras em madeira bastante originais.
Postcards from America
Cinco fotógrafos da Magnum embarcam numa viagem pela América e numa experiência documental. Estou curioso para ver o resultado final…
State of Grace: an interview with Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders é além de um cineasta bastante acima da média, um bom fotógrafo Aqui no BJP lê-se uma extensa entrevista com o director de filmes como “Paris, Texas” e “as asas do desejo” (um dos meus filmes favoritos). Tenho por aqui um livro dele com fotografias da América, estou com curiosidade de o ir rever…
Busker’s dilemma (busker’s delight)
Como habitual um pequeno post de Seth Godin, muito mas mesmo muito certeiro.
Once someone has stopped and started to listen, you have a choice. You can take that person on a journey, forego the next stranger and instead seduce the one you’ve got…
Or you can keep pushing for more attention from more people.
Both work. The challenge is in making a choice, your choice, a choice based on why you’re doing the work in the first place. It’s not up to them, it’s up to you.