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Cheap perfume and fried chicken (The economist)
AMID the fussy grandeur of the Metropolitan Museum of Art sits an unexpected show of photographs. “Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players” is a collection of Leon Levinstein’s black-and-white pictures of New York City from 1950 to 1980. They are raw and energetic, with rubbish-strewn streets, stooped old men, fat painted ladies and posturing youths in tight jeans. One photograph features a woman in a white party dress curled up on the beach, asleep and mysterious. Another sees two handball players snapped from behind, aloft and balletic. Continue reading
Exposed : Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera @ Tate Modern, London
From Cartier-Bresson via Helmut Newton to Alison Jackson: Simon Baker has 13 rooms of images we should not be seeing.
Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects.
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Interview of Ethan Levitas from Polka Gallery/Magazine
An excellent video presents the interview from Ethan Levitas who is currently having an exhibit at Polka Gallery in Paris. “This is just to say”, a long term series about where he lives, or using the subway as a subject. The series is intended to be rich and relevant, and a little wider than a story about New-York. The main subjects are subway trains, but Ethan presents pictures concretely, about what the themes are, and also metaphorically, to talk about what makes people similar and different. Continue reading