Paris based photographer Denis Darzacq recently completed a new series of photographs entitled ‘hyper’.
The series explores ‘the place of the individual in society’ a common theme in his work. the series may seem surreal and clearly a product of photoshop, however none of the works have been digitally manipulated.
Instead, darzacq recruited [...]
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The fast development of the digital camera in photography obviously doesn’t make Polaroid Camera lose its fans. Though it’s very hard to find Polaroid films now (especially in Indonesia), taking a portrait with a Polaroid camera and feeling the film comeout from the camera is still something that some people have a romantic nostalgia for. [...]
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Introduction
Loo, john, dunny, bathroom, lavatory, outhouse, WC, longdrop, commodities, powder-room, crapper, throne, porcelain god, washroom, toilet, can, urinal, facilities, pisser, comfort station, head, water-closet, little boys’ room, shitter, pot, nettie, bog, …So many names refer to the same mundane object. This boundless terminology reflects human beings’ natural fascination with the toilet. Taboo subjects that have [...]
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Turn a scanner into a camera that takes some pretty wild photos. An easy way to have fun with an old scanner!.
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Photojojo said:
We’re gonna call it now — the flatbed scanner’s headed the way of the landline, the fax machine, and (dare we say it) the polaroid.
Sure, it’s probably got a few more years in [...]
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Nobuyoshi Araki
Interviewed by Jerome Sans
Jerome Sans: Why call your book “Araki by Araki” when you have edited most of your own books yourself? Was there something special about this one?
Nobuyoshi Araki: I turned sixty at the end of the 20th century. In Japan, a sixtieth birthday, called the Kanreki, is a specific date representing a [...]
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One can understand here the emotion felt by the whole world on discovering photography: a dream becoming reality. This catalogue books tells a story that began officially in 1839 in Paris, and continues up to today’s conceptual photography. Straddling art and science, photography cannot be understood without an understanding of its technique. Each of these [...]
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I Hope You Are All Happy Now is a photography book by Nick Zinner, the guitarist for the New York indie-rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner is an accomplished photographer. He studied photography at Bard College and has released three separate collections of his work: No Seats on the Party Car (2001), Slept in Beds [...]
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