The history of a photograph: The kiss in the middle of street riots
Vancouver, Canada, 2011. A Stanley Cup ice hockey game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins turned the city’s streets into a real battlefield. Vancouver officials said…
Art Dedicated to Joy: Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book
Motto: When you ask a person to jump, their attention is mostly directed to the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears. …
The “Water Mirror” from Bordeaux – tribute to the waters and sky of the Mediterranean
Mirroir d’Eau (Water Mirror) is a spectacular art installation created in 2006 by Jean-Max Llorca, Pierre Gangnet and Michael Corajoud, which alternates a mirror effect and artificial fogging…
Five photos, five stories with extraordinary women
The baroness and the Mercedes Here is the Prussian baroness, Gisela Josephine von Krieger, with the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Roadster and above, the Hindenburg, the famous Zeppelin. The…
History in photographic images or how nostalgia can become delicious (2)
You begin to squeeze your eyelids until it hurts, until you feel drops of the sweat of your soul appear. And then the memory turns into 100 labyrinths, then…
EcoArt 2023: photography between heaven and hell
Motto: Man, this possessed king, as Pascal calls him, is condemned to slip over things. There is an essential difference between knowing and naming, even if the latter…
O frământată romanţă postmodernă: Jeff Koons şi Ilona Staller (Cicciolina) – A turbulent postmodern romance: Jeff Koons and Ilona Staller (Cicciolina)
A turbulent postmodern romance: Jeff Koons and Ilona Staller (Cicciolina) What can contemporary sculpture and porn movies have in common? It can intensify the desire for freedom and…
Metamorphosis, in contemporary artistic visions – Metamorfoza, în viziuni artistice contemporane
One of the great advantages of global connectivity is the ease of traveling to a space where the intellectual and artistic productions of millions of people are exhibited.…
Critical approach to contemporary society through photography – Abordare critică a societăţii contemporane prin fotografie
The 20-year-old photographer from Alcala (Spain), Carlos Ladrón de Guevara, is an enthusiast who is now launching his project, „El Avance de la Regresión”. His cultural concept wants…
Those who do not believe in tears or a disease called war (Cei care nu cred în lacrimi sau despre o boală numită război)
Motto: Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. (George Santayana) August 1968, February 2022, two moments of historical turning point, events that radically change…