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West Bank wall graffiti – UPDATED
a bansky painting from a slide show on spiegel online/ another row of images on the theme can be looked up at reuters.com
In the West Bank, Israel’s security barrier has started to resemble the western side of the Berlin Wall. The Israeli side is bleak and clean, but on the Palestinian side graffiti … -
“it’s not the gaze, but the look” – Female Icons
What makes a woman an icon? is an art project by De Geuzen which explores the constitution of a woman as an icon:The aesthetic of this project’s archive reinforces the idea that an icon or representation is in itself a way of seeing. Seeing the symmetrical grid of images almost evoke a sense of …
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Cité Soleil / City of the Sun
The winning photo for 2008 comes from 21-year-old Belgian photographer Alice Smeets, the youngest person ever to win the competition. The picture comes from a slum in Port au Prince called the “Cité Soleil,” or “City of the Sun.” (via spiegel / unicef link)
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Histoire(s) du cinéma
These two articles focusing on Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma are the openers of the recent screening the past issue, as in the issue before an international poll has selected Godard’s Histoire(s) (along with Gilberto Perez’s The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium) as the most significant publications in our field in the past …