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photography
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Artists Activists
Read more: Artists ActivistsArtistsActivists is a youth empowerment and advocacy organization started in 2011 by graduate students at Yale University. Through the various ArtistsActivists programs, artists and designers share their skills with young people around the world. Since more people are joining our…
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Project 562: Changing the way we see Native America
Read more: Project 562: Changing the way we see Native AmericaMatika Willbur was given a grant by Kickstarter (the worlds largest funding platform for creative projects) to travel around the U.S. for a year and photograph Native America. The goal of the 562 project is to change the way we…
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Photo Requests from Solitary
Read more: Photo Requests from SolitaryFeaturing photographs that represent a unique collaboration between men held in supermax prisons and the photographers who fulfilled their requests. Curated by Laurie Jo Reynolds, Tamms Year Ten, Jeanine Oleson, Parsons The New School for Design, and Jean Casella, Solitary…
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John Heartfield’s Anti-Nazi Photomontages
Read more: John Heartfield’s Anti-Nazi PhotomontagesJohn Heartfield began to make photomontages as a member of the Berlin branch of international Dada around 1920. Schooled in graphic arts and having worked briefly in animated film, Heartfield (who had anglicized his given name, Helmut Herzfeld, in 1917…
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American Prison Perpestives
Read more: American Prison PerpestivesWith American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions. There are many insightful conclusions…
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Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia
Read more: Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbiaby Pete Brook High above the Arizona desert in 2010, after a day of photographing housing developments, Christoph Gielen looked down from the helicopter upon Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The hexagonal arrangement of the prison site, to him, replicated the…
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Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage
Read more: Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage“On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric…
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Turning Art Into Activism
Read more: Turning Art Into ActivismBy David Gonzalez Leslie Thomas wants to shock you. She wants to anger you. And above all, she wants you to do something. She’s not talking about run-of-the-mill, “Hey buddy, watch your step” angry or TMZ sleaze shock. She’s talking…
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Face 2 Face
Read more: Face 2 FaceIn 2007, anonymous French photographer JR embarked on the Face2Face project – the largest unauthorized photo exhibition ever conceived. JR and his collaborator Marco engaged Israelis and Palestinians employed in the same profession to be photographed making funny faces. They…
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Women Are Heros
Read more: Women Are HerosFilm correlating to the project of the same name by JR – a french street artist who works with large scale photography and wheat-paste. External sources: http://www.womenareheroes-lefilm.com/site_womenareheroes/ http://vimeo.com/15686678