Mexico : The Factory of Dreams by Stefan Ruiz | La Lettre de la Photographie

by Mário Pires 22.05.2012 Photography Now

See on Scoop.it – Photography Now For the past eight years, Stefan Ruiz has gained special access to Mexico’s Televisa studios, known as “The Factory of Dreams,” where nearly fifty thousand hours worth of telenovelas (soap operas) are produced and exported annually to more than… See on www.lalettredelaphotographie.com

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What, Oh Where is The Real Thing?

by Mário Pires 22.05.2012 Photography Now

See on Scoop.it – Photography Now Many years ago I was asked by Town & Country magazine to photograph an elderly Lady Caroline Blackwood at her home in Sag Harbor, Long Island. See on rodneysmith.com

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What, Oh Where is The Real Thing?

by Mário Pires 22.05.2012 Photography Now

See on Scoop.it – Photography Now Many years ago I was asked by Town & Country magazine to photograph an elderly Lady Caroline Blackwood at her home in Sag Harbor, Long Island. See on rodneysmith.com

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Modular Cameras Will Continue to Revolutionize the Photo Industry | Chase Jarvis Blog

by Mário Pires 21.05.2012 Photography Now

See on Scoop.it – Photography Now Who says a camera has to have a static body design? Not RED, not GoPro, and now not Digimo, whose Camera Concept is a modular wonder of design. Will the legacy manufactures figure it out? See on blog.chasejarvis.com

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Takuma Nakahira CIRCULATION : DATE, PLACE, EVENTS

by Mário Pires 21.05.2012 Photography Now

See on Scoop.it – Photography Now Automne 1971. Un an après la parution de son programmatique For a Language to Come, Takuma Nakahira était invité à participer à la 7e biennale de Paris. See on deslivresetdesphotos.blog.lemonde.fr

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The Environmental Portrait in Koyaanisqatsi at Visual Culture Blog by @MarcoBohr

by Mário Pires 21.05.2012 Photography Now

See on Scoop.it – Photography Now In Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, a group of middle-aged Las Vegas waitresses look straight into the camera as they are captured in time lapse. This brief scene in Koyaanisqatsi adds to the film’s complex montage of visually arresting sequences that explore the condition of late capitalism. See on visualcultureblog.com

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5. Toward a Museum of Convention

by Mário Pires 21.05.2012 Photography Now

See on Scoop.it – Photography Now Last week’s post concerned itself with the academy as a mode of distribution for aesthetic discourse and how the inclusion of art within higher education has the potential to shift the understanding of intellectual research and debate, specifically… See on blog.fotomuseum.ch

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