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Les ruines de l'économie immobilière américaine, par Edgar Martins
This is not a House formed part of an assignment for The New York Times Magazine, one that turned into an international controversy.
The US sub-prime mortgage crisis, which has its roots in the closing years of the twentieth century, became apparent in 2007 and exposed pervasive weaknesses as well as deep-rooted inequalities within financial industry regulation and the global financial system. In the winter of 2008, Martins produced a series of photographs that explored the collapse of the US housing market. He photographed abandoned ho...
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Peter Marlow - Point of interest
Peter Marlow is a Magnum photographer, joining the agency in 1980. One of the pre-eminent British photojournalists of his generation, Marlow has developed a parallel body of work over the course of twenty years. Point of Interest is a rigorous edit from several thousand images taken down to twenty seven colour works and ten small black and white prints.
This body of work has been made alongside major projects and is an oblique look at the world which never made it into his photojournalistic images. It is photojournalism turned inside out, where the geography of where he is in the world, and...
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Group Show at the Wrapping Project Bankside
Peter Marlow : British Magnum photographer, whose tense filmic night shots of the East End (1981 black and white vintage prints) recall the post war images of Bill Brandt.
Lillian Bassman : 92 year old black and white fashion photographer – Bassman’s stylized images recall fine pen and ink drawings and re-cast fashion photography as calligraphy.
Deborah Turbeville : 76 year old New Yorker – Turbeville’s striking narrative images capture the underbelly of Jean Rhys’s Paris, and Eastern Europe before the fall of the wall.
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Annabel Elgar at The Wapping Project Bankside
On April, 15th, will start the fifth exhibition at The Wapping Project Bankside with British photographic artist Annabel Elgar. The exhibition will show a survey of Elgar’s work to date, which " has something of the British gothic about it. Mythic, dream-like scenarios are painstakingly enacted but with their narratives tantalisingly out of reach".
The Wapping Project Bankside is London’s newest commercial gallery focusing on film and video work. Set up in October 2009 by the Director of the The Wapping Project, Jules Wright, the gallery represen...
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Deborah Turbeville - At The Wapping Project Bankside
One of the world’s most important female fashion photographers headlines her UK show with a tribute to Alexander McQueen.
The Wapping Project Bankside, a new gallery space adjacent to Tate Modern, will host a solo exhibition by Deborah Turbeville one of the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century.
A selection of 30 images will be on show at The Wapping Project Bankside, spanning Turbeville’s extraordinary career so far. Among the images is ‘Homage to Alexander McQueen', a personal expression of Turbeville’s bereavement at losing a friend and collaborator...
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