Search Results for "britain"
April 15, 2016
...om around the world hoping to make their way across the English Channel to Britain, where, at least for a while, it was easier to work without papers. The camp is the subject of Henk Wildschut’s exhibition “Calais – From Jungle to City” at FOAM Amsterdam, on view until June 5. Wildschut became interested in how people live while their lives are in flux in 2005, after he was sent to cover the earthquake in Pakistan. There, he writes in a statement,...
February 19, 2016
...e 2012, is called Penny Penny Day, and its origins are attributed to Great Britain’s Guy Fawkes Day (possibly born of the custom of asking for a “penny from the Guy,” though upon asking Katlehong residents, Casino was unable to confirm). Casino adds that today, people in the township also associate Penny Penny Day with the gay rights movement. “No one knows when or why precisely it mutated to this, and that makes it even more interesting from my p...
April 7, 2015
...lison’s photographs, playground landscapes from schools all over the world—Britain, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Kenya and the U.S., among many countries—are filled with young people who are fully engaged, oblivious to the camera. The images are scenic and delightful, illustrating both the common activity of recreation and the differences in the places children have available to them. Some are wooded, others paved and urban. Some look posh, others hardsc...
June 30, 2014
..., 1990 and 2010. © Irina Werning/Courtesy teNeues Riff Raff, London, Great Britain, 1976 and 2011. © Irina Werning/Courtesy teNeues Leanne, New York, USA, 1982 and 2011. © Irina Werning/Courtesy teNeues Tomasz and Mira, Sosnowiec, Poland, 1980 and 2013. © Irina Werning/Courtesy teNeues Cover of Irina Werning's "Back to the Future." © Irina Werning/Courtesy teNeues We’re all aware of getting older and may obsess over how our bodies gradually change...
January 9, 2014
...he Kremlin for a book of travel photos he hoped to sell to patrons back in Britain who would never glimpse such architecture in any other medium. In the early twentieth century when Paul Strand created a formal, geometric study of rooftops in New York City, he was determined to establish photography as an art form on par with painting, which at the time had turned to abstraction. “In Focus: Architecture” also includes a study of a water tower by B...
December 11, 2013
...f the past three years,”Pierdom” is a comprehensive and stunning survey of Britain’s 19th century “pleasure piers.” With “Pierdom,” UK-based photographer Simon Roberts has turned his camera to the specific architectural remnants that bear witness to leisure of the past. Built along the coastline of Britain, these piers were originally constructed as landing docks for pleasure steamers, but progressively catered to the needs of seaside day-trippers...
October 2, 2012
...© Helen Sear Helen Sear is recognized as one of Britain’s most important contemporary artists working today. An actively producing artist for some 30 years, her new work—Sightlines and Pastoral Monuments—forms her 3rd solo show at the Klompching Gallery and is accompanied by the retrospective monograph entitled Helen Sear: Inside The View. The exhibition continues through to October 26th. -courtesy Klompching Gallery © Helen Sear...
May 2, 2012
...and the way they construct their image in the eyes of ‘the other’.” Great Britain and Argentina have long disputed ownership of the Falkland Islands. The 1982 war began on April 2 when Argentina invaded the islands to assert its control. Britain fought back, defeating Argentina and regaining control of the islands after 11 weeks of fighting. The submarine HMS Conqueror sunk the The General Belgrano, an Argentine cruiser, on May 2nd. This resulted...
October 21, 2011
...ajevo, Bosnia and Herzogevia (April 5, 1992- February 29, 1996). Battle of Britain, Dover Coast (July 10, 1940-October 31, 1940) Siege of Leningrad (St.Petersburg), Russia (September 8, 1941-January 27, 1944) Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy (January 17-May18, 1944) Battle of Gallipoli, Anzac (April 25, 1915-January 9, 1916) Battle of Vittorio Veneto, Italy (October 24-November 3, 1918) Battle of Kursk, Prokhorovka (July 12, 1943) Battle of Sevastop...
August 26, 2011
...he spent eight years traveling to farms, towns, and temples in Peru, Great Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean, New England, and Kentucky in pursuit of dry stone walls. The photographs portray the wall in landscape, the wall in abstract form, and the return of rocks to nature. Cook is fascinated with the juxtaposition of stones and geometric composition, as well as with the resonance among walls of different cultures. The walls were photographed b...
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