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Robots: The 500-year Quest to Make Machines Human
In 2017 the Science Museum in London opened a temporary exhibition on robotics that featured a unique collection of more than a hundred objects focusing on humanoid robots from the sixteenth century to the present day. This exhibition, developed by the Science Museum’s curator of mechanical engineering, Ben Russell, and his team, ran from 8 February to 3 September 2017 and will be traveling internationally after its closure in London. It is divided into five sections (“Marvel,” “Obey,” “Dream,” “Build,” and “Imagine”), which are presented in a chronological sequence in five separate rooms. The exhibition team unfolds the narrative of the five sections using five different historical periods and locations. The designer’s concept corresponds to this order of topics by implementing a consecutive itinerary. In accord with the exhibition’s title, it constructs a narrative about mankind’s quest for humanlike machines. The curators start in the sixteenth century, when European thinkers increasingly thought of humans and indeed the universe itself as machinelike. They follow it with an exploration of the Industrial Revolution and the complex systems of machinery within which humans became embedded. They explore the continuing fascination with the creation of humanlike machines in the present day and finish the narrative with questions about how people can live together with this kind of robot.
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ReGeneration3
ReGeneration3' brings together fifty artists with twenty-five different nationalities, representing some forty art institutions. Their work is distinguished by their multidisciplinarity, ranging from printing and photographic series, artists'; books, multimedia installations, videos, projections, films and performances, to on-site installations. The format of the book devoted to 'reGeneration3' takes the ever-growing popularity of the photography book into account. The book is designed by graphic artists from the SUPERO studios and co-produced by Skira editore. It testifies to the museum's interest in artists'; books and to its commitment to giving priority to the image. The integration of augmented reality in the two versions of the book; French and English & allows access to the video and multimedia works presented in the exhibition. The texts can be found at the end of the book. They include a postface by Tatyana Franck, the presentation of this new edition by Anne Lacoste, and biographical and descriptive notes concerning the works of the 50 artists chosen, written by Lydia Dorner, Emilie Delcambre and Saida Bondini. Exhibition: Musâee de l'Elysâee, Lausanne, Switzerland (29.05-23.08.2015).
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Wolfgang Tillmans 2017
This new publication, accompanying an exhibition at Tate Modern, examines Tillmans's evolving practice showcasing his photography but also his video, digital slide projections, publications and recorded music. Mark Godfrey gives an overarching view of Tillmans's practice, from the physical materiality of the work, to space and installation, to his use of abstraction. Tom Holert focuses on Tillmans's relationship with politics and society, with particular emphasis on events of the last 15 years and the way Tillmans uses images and methods of distribution to examine global concerns such as migration and identity politics. Wolfgang Tillmans is the first photographer to win the Turner Prize (in 2000), his practice is characterised by constant investigation into the boundaries of the photographic medium and a preoccupation with the process of photography itself.
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The photographer in the garden
From famous locations to the simplest home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to vintage family snapshots, 'The Photographer in the Garden' traces the garden's rich history in photography and delights readers with spectacular images. Picture commentaries by Sarah Anne McNear and an informative essay from curator Jamie M. Allen broaden our understanding of photography and how it has been used to record the glory of the garden. The book features photographers from all eras, including Anna Atkins, Karl Blossfeldt, Eugلene Atget, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Stephen Shore, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Collier Schorr.
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Eugene Richards : the run-on of time
The first publication to situate the work of Richards in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice. Eugene Richards (b. 1944) is a documentary photographer known for his powerful, unflinching exploration of contemporary social issues from the early 1970s to the present. This handsome book is the first comprehensive and critical look at Richards's lifelong achievements. Reproduced in tritone and color, the extraordinary images in this volume explore complicated and controversial subjects, including racism, poverty, drug addiction, cancer, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the erosion of rural America. The authors of the book situate Richards's work in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice, following in the tradition of W. Eugene Smith and Robert Frank.
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The itinerant languages of photography
The Itinerant Languages of Photography examines photography's capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across other media, such as art, literature and cinema. Taking its point of departure from Latin American and Spanish photographic archives, the volume offers an alternative history of photography by focusing on the transnational dimension of technological traffic and image production at a time when photography is at the centre of current debates on the role of representation, authorship and reception in a global contemporary culture. Featuring images that converse across temporal, political and cultural boundaries by artists such as Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, the book argues that the photographic image comes into being only as a consequence of reproduction, displacement and itinerancy. Exhibition: Princeton University Art Museum, USA (07.09.2013-19.01.2014).
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