Portraits of Soldiers Before, During, and After War

Photographer Lalage Snow, who is currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan, embarked on an 8-month-long project titled We Are The Not Dead featuring portraits of British soldiers before, during, and after their deployment in Afghanistan.

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Astronaut Suicides Neil DaCosta

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Anne Turyn - from 'Flashbulb Memories' (1986)

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Glitchball

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Harun Farocki — Ein Bild / The Image (1983)

Harun Farocki: Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals with culture, cars, a certain lifestyle. Maybe all those trappings are only there to cover up the naked woman. Maybe it’s like with a paper-doll. The naked woman in the middle is a sun around which a system revolves: of culture, of business, of living! (It’s impossible to either look or film into the sun.) One can well imagine that the people creating such a picture, the gravity of which is supposed to hold all that, perform their task with as much care, seriousness, a responsibility as if they were splitting uranium. This film, An Image, is part of a series I’ve been working on since 1979. The television station that commissioned it assumes in these cases that I’m making a film that is critical of its subject matter, and the owner or manager of the thing that’s being filmed assumes that my film is an advertisement for them. I try to do neither. Nor do I want to do something in between, but beyond both. (Harun Farocki, Zelluloid, no. 27, Fall 1988) VIA

Porn

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Cloud search-engine Amsterdam

BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 - Irina Werning

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...mais moi je voudrais porter l'etoile au front comme Asia sur son pied

...in Fear of a RED planet

Images from the secret STASI archives - Simon Menner

"Maybe the weirdest thing I came across so far - and I had no idea that something like this might exist - are the images of spies taking pictures of spies. Some small units within the Alied Forces were theoretically free to move within all of Germany. This was seen by both sides (east and west) as a wonderful opportunity for espionage. Whenever a small group of soldiers drove in their car through East Germany STASI agents tried to follow them. Both sides were fully aware that the other side was fully aware of their presence and this is exactly what these images show. An endless circle or awareness. I believe this is a wonderful allegory for the Cold War. Currently I am researching whether some of their counterparts still exist in western archives."

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Gatorade Shower

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MISS OF THE VILLAGE (AND HER STYLIST)

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Nostalgia for now

Nostalgia is a tricky thing. It’s not just that apps like Hipstamatic add a fade and a blur, and a single-color cast to a scene, imbuing it with more presence than perhaps it had claimed for itself. That’s all right, presence is absent, it lives in the mind’s eye, if at all. Imbue at will. Nostalgia’s trickiness is measured in the values embedded in the algorithms. That striped t-shirt on your back? That empty afternoon coffee mug? That corpse with the artfully lifeless fingers? All gesturing towards some time in the past when life was slower, when colors had time to fade, when transitions were softer and easier on the heart, when possibilities beckoned. Never mind that there was no time like that; or rather, that all times are. In our memories, it exists. And in our digital outputs.

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Agan Harahap - Superhero

Cherbourg-Normandy 1944

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James Nachtwey - War Photographer

tonight we saw a very impressive documetary about j.nachtwey. here + here

tasty flyer

flyer for an exhibition of stolen photography and portrait right which I visited last year.

the parking lot

How many ballons does it take to fill up a horse?

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