“Bibliomania: A Preface to CHRONOVISOR” opens Friday @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Chunking Books
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Rare books, visual culture. Rare Book Dealer & Publisher Based in Bilbao and run by Sören Schuhmacher Latest catalog on #chrismarker https://chunkingbooks.com
RIP Ben Morea. This Chris Marker film shows the time Morea and others broke into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest. vimeo.com/239333605
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of what became known as The March on the Pentagon October 21, 1967 Washington, DC Here's a description of this film from Fandor's site On October 21, 1967,...
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Helmut Herbst (1969) “The one-hour 35mm film DEUTSCHLAND DADA was made in 1968/69 in the form of a dada alphabet. [...] Outstanding: the statements & performances of the Dadaists Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck & Hans Richter who were still alive at the time.” www.ubu.com/film/herbst_...
How Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard, other legendary filmmakers managed to fund their art.
How Legendary Filmmakers Funded Their Creative Lives
The Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman wasn’t born into any special artistic lineage. Growing up, she was, in the words of a friend, “a lower-middle-class nobody whose father owned a clothing store.…
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"The hulking older brother to Polaroid’s iconic folding SX-70, the Instant Land measured 64x105x150cm, weighed ~90kg + [printed] 50 x 60cm photos in 60 secs. Rather than taking it out into the 🌍, one needed to bring the 🌍 to it. Ghirri happily obliged, bringing with him suitcases full of props..."
Last chance to see: rare, giant Polaroids by Luigi Ghirri
A 90kg Polaroid camera demanded that Luigi Ghirri brought the world to the photo studio. With the help of his trusty suitcase full of props, he wasn't far off
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"...what a 'museum of errantry' might be: not encyclopedic, not chronological, not something that promotes a fixed vision of culture, not a monument to a past..., but a constantly shifting archive [of] communication across borders + language barriers, of mvmnt that doesn’t seek to claim territory."
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"Mordant and confounding, this one-of-a-kind portrait of five individuals who attend two-to-five film screenings per day has achieved cult success for its brazen exploration of cinephiles’ most compulsive tendencies." Screening free for the week @ Le Cinéma Club
CINEMANIA a film by ANGELA CHRISTLIEB & STEPHEN KIJAK
Five movie-obsessed individuals in New York detail their compulsive watching habits and moviegoing rituals.
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Cindy Sherman: Retrospective. Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. photoblog1965.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/c... #photobooks #photography #photo #fotografie #blog #portraitphotography 📷 📸 #cindysherman
Enjoyed listening to Arnaud from The Everyday Press and Hlib from Biblioteka talk about artists’ books, libraries, and the politics of publishing! monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Art books at the Warburg Institute and Tate - Monocle
We explore the genre of art books at a new exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute, which explores art publishing and...
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A collection of the Letterform Archive's ephemera — from chopstick wrappers to transit tickets to product labels to punk flyers to calendars
Ephemera
Letterform Archive’s collection of ephemera aims to outlast its impermanent nature and provide endless design inspiration.
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Paul Lukas shared a nice write-up about the show:
Finally, a Museum Exhibit of Trade Catalogs!
I’ve collected vintage trade catalogs for years. Now they’ve gotten the museum treatment at one of America’s most famous institutions.
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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.There's a really lovely little exhibition of trade catalogs up in the Met Museum's Watson Library through Monday! From decorative glass to tile patterns to cake decorations to art supplies to marching band uniforms to (new to me!) bereavement stationery www.metmuseum.org/home.asp/exh...
The legacy of visual symbolism carries through Thread Memory, where archival material isn’t neutral; it’s radically local. Images are drawn not from state institutions or foreign-held collections “like the Library of Congress”, notes the curator but from families.”Palestine through Palestinian eyes”
In Thread Memory, photography of Palestinian tatreez resists forgetting - 1854 Photography
Making use of the Palestine Museum’s large digitised collection, Rachel Dedman curates photographic context to visual heritage not “limited to colonial collections”
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film strips from “Broadway by Light,” William Klein's first cinematic project in 1958.
It pays to be a nudge. My obit of Mario Vargas Llosa — in all his literary complexity and right wing facho tendencies — is up. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89: Nobel laureate from Peru was the last of 'El Boom' novelists
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday.
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‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs - The esteemed film director began as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris – a exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet now presents her as a part of the city’s creative history www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
This exhibition looks wonderful. (In the '70s I lived one street away from Varda's atelier & shopped at the rue Daguerre market, but never knew she was there, alas.)
J.A.Tallon@tallon.bsky.social · last yr.‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs - The esteemed film director began as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris – a exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet now presents her as a part of the city’s creative history www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
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Submissions are open for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and b…
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A very timely long read, with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/4fWX6pR
The last days of Walter Benjamin
Hounded by the Nazis, the great philosopher took his life in 1940, leaving several mysteries unanswered
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In 2021, Comme des Garçons worked with Chris Marker’s archive to create limited-edition catalogs and installations in NYC and London. Curated by Rei Kawakubo, the project wove together Marker’s photography, films, and text, drawing from the Cinémathèque française and his Staring Back exhibition.
We are excited to announce that Inpatient Press has joined the MIT Press as a distributed partner! To celebrate this news, we sat down with founding editor Mitch Anzuoni to discuss his work and publishing philosophy: https://buff.ly/49nuK6h #publishingnews
A conversation with Mitch Anzuoni, editor of Inpatient Press
We speak with Mitch Anzuoni of Inpatient Press, which joins the MIT Press this month as a distributed partner.
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A league of their own: Girl’s baseball team, coached by Tlingit photographer George Johnston. Photographed by Johnston at Nisutlin River, Yukon in 1941. From ‘Unter Der Mitternachts Sonne.’ BlanketToss Under Midnight Sun (German edition)
BOTD Jean Luc Godard! We remain in awe of his 15 feature run, 1960-7 More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/post... @szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/6212979/jean... @samadams.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2022... @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever
In a six-decade career that included "Breathless," "Week-end" and "Goodbye to Language," the unaccountably great and inventive artist always managed to tick off all the right people.
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The July 1960 issue of DU Magazine is dedicated to Jean Cocteau. For me, it feels like an early take on yellow press home stories—intimate glimpses with a touch of flair. What really draws me in is the assemblage of images on his desk, especially the many photos of Picasso.
The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.
A new installation lets you hear extinct and endangered animal sounds, thanks to Björk
The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.
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Luigi Ghirri's Omaggio a (Homage to) Walter Benjamin, was published in 1989 in the Italian design and architecture magazine Ottagono. The portfolio consists of sixteen plates of twenty-five color photographs of Paris taken between 1972 and 1987, edited and designed by Ghirri himself.
