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20 avril 2012

Variation with August Sander's characters

Obsession.. I cannot stop working with these pictures. With and without the background, with and without the characters. The idea was to go on with the presence of the absents. The absents being the characters which have been taken off the photographs...

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Tags: August Sander, collage, photomontages

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24 février 2012

Kodak: the end of an era...

Strange to recall, Kodak was the Google of its day. Founded in 1880, it was known for its pioneering technology and innovative marketing. “You press the button, we do the rest,” was its slogan in 1888. By 1976 Kodak accounted for 90% of film and 85% of...

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Tags: photography, analog, digital

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6 février 2012

A conversation with Bob Stein from The Institute for the Future of the Book, By Sarah Gottlieb

(extracts from The Form of the Book Book) By created blogs related to books, Bob Stein and is team creates a conversation between the writer and the reader. "Reading and writing have always been social experiences but when frozen into print these relations...

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Tags: book design, short essays

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6 février 2012

Book design research

Le Corbusier as Book Designer: Semi-Modernity a la francaise by Catherine de Smet Le Corbusier -Charles-Edouard Jeanneret- produced thirty-five books which he authored, laid out, chose the format and the paper. Le Corbuser and Amedee Ozenfant founded...

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Tags: books, Le Corbusier, graphic designer

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30 janvier 2012

Grids and dictionary

Notes from the introduction of Lucienne Roberts in GRIDS, Creative Solutions for Graphic Designers From the beginning of printing until the Industrial Revolution, the book was the primary output of printing. Apart from verse, type was generally set in...

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Tags: book design, grid

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24 janvier 2012

From the absence to the presence...

Create a living memory from August Sander's characters. Taken out from their context they are trully present. I just wanted to create different scenarios with these beautiful men and women, Parents and children, husbands and wives... I did not want to...

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Tags: photography, August Sander, Michael Somoroff

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17 janvier 2012

Auguste Sander 1876-1964

Voir, observer, penser: la profession de foi d'un photographe Auguste Sander took 40 000 photograph whose 30 000 have disappeared following a bombing of Koln, during WWII. His photographs have perfect qualities such as the study of the reality, the authenticity...

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Tags: photography, August Sander, black and white, nostalgy, sociology

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13 décembre 2011

Mademoiselle Jeanne

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Tags: old postcards, story book

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23 novembre 2011

From August Sander to Michael Somoroff: Absence of subject

Reading with great interest the project of Michael Somoroff of reappropriating August Sander's photographs ( People of the Twentieth Century) in Eyemazing Nov. 2011, opened my curiosity . I found the project very poetic, nostalgic and pure. Michael Somoroff...

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Tags: appropriation, photography, August Sander, still life

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22 novembre 2011

Interdiction d'afficher: loi du 29 juillet 1881

Thank you to Jacques Mahe de la Villegle and Mimmo Rotella for each delightful minute I spent in the compay of their work. After weeks of work, brain-storming and stress... The essay is in its box. The research was fascinating and I enjoyed the time spent...

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Tags: books, Rotella, Villegle, research

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