Photography is a beach | issue#1

Street view – The meta-photography by Michael Wolf

Street view – The meta-photography by Michael Wolf

In Street View – as in the other works of the macro-series “Life in cities” – there’s a striking conscious lightness with which Wolf frames very heavy themes, thanks to a deep awareness of the medium that leads him to undertake courageous and unconventional solutions. The taste for irony and the freedom to experiment are for Wolf the Socratic artifices towards a curious and irreverent exploration of new horizons of photography meant as a tool for reading the present

David McEnery – Humour, please!

The taste of the paradox, the sense of irony, the ability to grasp the unintentionally ridiculous situations of everyday life: the inimitable English humor, which invites a smile with a slight detachment, almost as if the absurd were part of normalcy. The English photographer David McEnery (1936-2002) has interpreted this spirit in a wonderful way, with a special grace: his photographs are masterpieces of irony, often of comedy. Some small gags for images.

Erik Kessels – 24 Hours in Photos

There is no doubt that today we are inundated with an overwhelming iconographic tide. It is exactly to give the sense of this new coexistence with images, that Erik Kessels creates an extremely significant installation in 2011, entitled 24 Hours in Photos. The artist downloaded and printed, in 10×15 postcard format, all the photographs that had been uploaded on the Flickr image sharing platform over a day.

Kensuke Koike – An eccentric alchemist game

Kensuke Koike – An eccentric alchemist game

Starting from vintage photographs that he finds in flea markets or in abandoned archives, Kensuke makes completely new images, cutting, overlapping, and overturning pieces of photos that fit together like pieces of a puzzle.