[TOC] foam #23, summer 2010 - Table of Contents

CONTENTS :
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Interview Pages 22-26 : Raymond Depardon: under the spell of the city. by Michel Guerrin
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THEME : CITY LIFE
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Theme introduction Pages 27-34 : Whose City? By Marcel Feil
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POTFOLIO OVERVIEW
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Mohamed Bourouissa ~ Périphéries. Text by Val Williams
Peripheries focuses on the suburbs of Paris. Bourouissa quickly gained recognition for his filmic photographs - carefully staged studies of the tension and power relations afflicting young people in the suburbs.
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Takashi Homma ~ Tokyo and My Daughter. Text by Marc Feustel
With Tokyo and my Daughter, Homma interweaves pictures of his studio, his dog and of himself with fragments of a young girl's life in the city.
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Nontsikelelo Veleko ~ Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder. Text by Mark Sealy
In the last couple of years Veleko has been attracting a great deal of attention with her striking work entitled Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder, a depiction of South African street style. Defying the clichés of what life can be like in South Africa, Veleko captures young people dressed in unique outfits, often with handmade elements.
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JH Engström ~ La Résidence. Text by Nan Goldin
During two separate stays in Brussels, the Swedish photographer JH Engstrom captured the inhabitants, the loneliness and the special atmosphere of the city.
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Otto Snoek ~ Millionaire. Text by Aaron Schuman
Snoek has lately been focusing on the identity of European citizens. For the series Millionaire, he has been travelling to millionaire fairs around Europe, catching the very peculiar and tense atmosphere of these parties.
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Bertrand Fleuret ~ Landmasses and Railways. Text by Adam Bell
Landmasses and Railways is a fictional journey without text through a retro-futuristic city with medieval elements, inspired bythe visual world of Tarkovsky, Chris Marker and the atmosphere of the novels of Kafka.
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Reinier Gerritsen ~ The Europeans. Text by Jörg Colberg
In 2005 Gerritsen began his long-term project The Europeans, travelling in 25 European countries, observing and photographing the anonymous masses on the streets.
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Joel Sternfeld ~ iDubai. Text by Chris Wiley
iDubai investigates consumerism and capitalism plus the theoretical implications of the proliferation of mobile phone cameras around the globe. In Dubai, Joel Sternfeld used his iPhone camera to get beyond mass-media images of the Emirate.
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Photobooks Pages 196-199. Texts by Sebastian Hau
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Exhibition programme.
Pages 203-216 Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin ~ Pretty Much Everything Photographs 1985-2010
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