“Women photographers” is the title of the box set published by Contrasto Editions dedicated to the great female authors who have made the history of photography. Three volumes for an extraordinary journey that allows you to retrace the entire history of photography through the female gaze. Women photographers, a catalog of the most significant authors […]
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On September 18, 2021, the exhibition “Being Human. Great female photographers tell the world”, where 30 female photographers will exhibit their works. The appointment goes on until January 30, 2022, in Forlì (Cesena), at the Museo di San Domenico. Walter Guadagnini took care of the idea and the realization in collaboration with Monica Fantini and
Photography is an artistic and design practice that allows not only to create artificial worlds, but also to know and deepen social, political and expressive introspectives. It can be a mirror of a reality that we intend to analyze, a document of emotional spheres or even a residue of a future still unexplored. “Le Fotografe”
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The Siena International Photo Awards is one of the photo contests with the highest international participation. In fact, almost 50,000 images were submitted by professional and amateur photographers from 156 countries worldwide. The winners of the Siena Drone Photo Awards were announced, with the Norwegian photographer Terje Kolaas coming out on top with a photograph
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If it was perfectly plausible in the 19th century to keep photographs of deceased loved ones, the same cannot be said for today. One artist who has measured himself against the relationship between art and death is Andres Serrano. Of Honduran and Afro-Cuban descent, he studied art at the Brooklyn Museum and Art School from
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The eleventh edition of the international visual narrative festival Cortona On The Move will take place from July 15 to October 3, 2021. The festival focuses on a wide range of storytelling tools, starting with photography as the basic grammar of visual language and welcoming stories that include video, sound, text and other installation and
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No matter what year you were born, unless you’re part of the Alpha generation (those born in 2010 or later), you’re bound to remember the cover of Nirvana’s most popular album, Nevermind. Cover story Nevermind is a cult album released in 1991 by Nirvana that contains memorable tracks such as Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come
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A picture is worth more than a thousand words and this great value almost always has to do with emotional impact. Photography is in fact able to convey emotions, some immediate, others less explicit. Looking at an image, however, is not the same thing as taking it. A photograph is the final product of a
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The importance of photos Never before has taking photographs, capturing moments to make them infinite, become more important than in recent years. An act as natural as picking up the phone and taking a photo, making a video is part of our everyday life. So much so, that when the space on our phone becomes
Victorian-era post-mortem photographs are a strange mix of charm, mystery, and the macabre, offering a way to preserve the memory of a deceased person. This is, in fact, a photographic practice that developed in the Victorian era and fell into disuse around the 1940s. Before the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, the only way
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