Tag Archives: Rebecca Solnit

Azoulay on Citizenship & Photography

September 16, 2012
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Rineke Dijkstra, Rebecca Solnit & Iceberg Economies

May 25, 2012

Photograph © Rineke Dijkstra, from Portraits. “Tecla, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 16th 1994“ “The official economic arrangements and the laws that enforce them ensure that hungry and homeless people will be plentiful amid plenty. The shadow system provides soup kitchens, food… Continue reading →

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Solnit on Landscape

April 6, 2012

“Every love has its landscape. Thus place, which is always spoken of as though it only counts when you’re present, possesses you in its absence, takes on another life as a sense of place, a summoning in the imagination with… Continue reading →

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One off: Richard Rothman.

March 23, 2012

“Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. There are objects and people that disappear from your sight or knowledge or possession; you love a bracelet, a… Continue reading →

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Perec on Space

February 22, 2012

“To cover the world, to cross it in every direction, will only ever be to know a few square metres of it, a few acres, tiny incursions into disembodied vestiges, small, incidental excitements, improbable quests congealed in a mawkish haze… Continue reading →

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Fraser on the New Middletowns

February 11, 2012

“In cities as diverse in location and rich in industrial heritage as New Haven, Connecticut, and Birmingham, Alabama, university-hospital complexes have supplanted factories as the dominant actors in their local economies. While labor markets in the factory cities of old… Continue reading →

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Paglen on Black sites, Secrecy, Geography and Visibility

December 28, 2011

Trevor Paglen, the author/photographer/critic and cultural geographer, here gives a lecture at Google’s campus on his work in the book “Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World“. His work is a fascinating and wilfully diverse… Continue reading →

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Detroitism, and Marchand & Meffre

August 25, 2011

 Ruins have long been a mainstay of documentary photography just as they have been a perennial destination for tourism. Photography’s long and complex relationship with history, as borne out in the field of documentary photography and its attendant critical writings,… Continue reading →

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Lewis on Cultural Landscape

August 8, 2011

“Why do we build domes and spires on public buildings, but rarely on our houses? Why did lightning rods suddenly appear on the American scene, and then disappear except as antiques? Why do we plant our front yards to grass,… Continue reading →

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