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Yesterday Leica presented their new limited edition sets created in collaboration with Hermès. The exclusive M9-P Edition Hermès and the M9-P Edition Hermès – Série Limitée Jean-Louis Dumas incorporate Veau Swift calfskin leather in ocre, supplied by Hermès for the leathering of the silver-chromed version of the Leica M9-P camera as well as the shoulder strap included in the set.
Arjan Benning (1972) works for various advertising agencies, cultural institutions, museums and magazines worldwide. In his work it’s remarkably that he often seeks the border where authenticity and amazement are close together. He is a staged photographer by who form centainly figures as content. He is committed to a laxity in the staging.
“Home” by Columbian artist Miler Lagos is a seven foot tall igloo-shaped sculpture made out of books. The sculpture was on display last Fall at the MagnanMetz Gallery in New York City.
Arjan Benning (1972) works for various advertising agencies, cultural institutions, museums and magazines worldwide. In his work it’s remarkably that he often seeks the border where authenticity and amazement are close together. He is a staged photographer by who form centainly figures as content. He is committed to a laxity in the staging.
Check out these rope masks by Bertjan Pot. Beautiful and scaring the crap out of you at the same time! Although seemingly these masks tell stories, this again started out as a material experiment. I wanted to find out if by stitching a rope together I could make a large flat carpet.
Car Crash Studies, a thought provoking photographic study of cars that have been involved in severe and potentially fatal accidents. The series moves between documentation and abstraction. While the car crash studies are typographical in nature, seeming in some instances to be closer to sterile accident report photographs, the subject matter most obviously begs the viewer to confront the human fear of trauma and death.
A personality is as unique as each one of us. But, what happens when we start to mimic aspects of other people? Do we lose ourselves? It seems possible that we are always picking up habits of others and constantly adapting to our surroundings. In this series entitled Mimicry, photography team GiesenLeenders (Maurits Giesen and Ilse Leenders) work together to explore and visually discuss these interesting concepts surrounding identity.
A collection of images of the seductive and mythological snake. Mark will be publishing a book about this series in the fall of 2012.
Please "share it" and leave a message to win 1 of this books with a ORIGINAL SIGNATURE! This booklet ( 32 pages, full color, hardcover, 9 x 12 cm ) was released by “Büchergilde Gutenberg”. It is based on the lyrics “Where are all the flowers gone” by Pete Seeger and is illustrated by Lars Henkel.
In April Hatch and Ink-a-zoid present a group exhibition of contemporary illustration. The following Berlin based artists will show their current work in the holy halls of the stickermuseum: