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Monthly Archive for April, 2008
For the past seven years Sze Tsung Leong has been carrying out a still on-going project entitled “Horizons” depicting a wide variety of landscapes from around the world: locations range from Mexico City, to Iceland, to California, to Cairo. The horizon lies in the same position from photograph to photograph, thus creating the sense of a longer, wider landscape, despite them being from different parts of the world, and contain different subject matter, though photographs of cities really give the sense of the photographs being a multi-panel panoramic photograph of the same city.
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I really like the simple compositions and simple color palette in Matthieu Gafsou’s body of work “Surfaces.” The landscape is that of Tunisia, and the body of work treats the issues of a new tradition, culture, and architecture subverting those of former traditions.
All of the text on his website is in french, so unless you understand the language, you’ll have to plug it into Google Translate, though the text for Surfaces is in a jpg image, so it’s a little more complicated.
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This week I didn’t look for/at many photographers. I spent much of the time during my evenings trying to get through a paper called “The Machine in the Garden Revisited - American Environmentalism and Photographic Aesthetics” by Deborah Bright, whose writings I enjoy more than her photography, despite her images and the concepts behind the imagery being interesting in itself.
The Machine in the Garden is about the relations between landscape photography’s aesthetics and environmental politics. It was a pretty heavy read - I’ll have to sit down with it again on a day when I can read the whole thing at once. It was all very interesting nonetheless.
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