Visions, Decoded #09 - Richard Mosse: The Beasts of All Colours
«Our instinct for colour becomes acuter, even though we have learned to see the dignity in masses of light and shade, or to appreciate the r
The Art of Seeing #08: The Nude in Photography
(για ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ) Since the ancient years, the ‘nude’ in art constituted a distinct category of artistic expression. The earliest versions of art that depicted a nude human body had as a theme the representation of heroes, Gods, mythical figures and generally characters intended to surpass the common aspects of human dimension. They were featuring an ideal form of the human body. In order to achieve this, the artist was trying to create a distance between the viewer
Book Talk: 'Homes Sweet Homes'
HOMES SWEET HOMES (για ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ) Photographer: Sophia Tolika The title of Sophia Tolika's book 'Homes Sweet Homes' gives away the sweetness of the photographer's eye towards her subject – the word sweet has not been chosen by chance –which is her direct familiar environment, her home and the homes of friends and relatives that she captures in her images, but also her friends and relatives themselves and especially children in their tiny, ordinary candid moments of
