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January 29th, 2010

Simon Duhamel: School Portraits

© Simon Duhamel

Simon’s image is part of a series of vintage-looking school portraits commissioned by Kaaz hair salon. This series won placement in the New Talent category in PDN Pix Digital Imaging Contest this year. See more from Simon and the other winners here.

January 28th, 2010

Visions of the Decade: Richard Misrach’s On The Beach (5 Photos)

ON THE BEACH Untitled #394-03, 2003All photographs © Richard Misrach

PDN readers voted Richard Misrach’s 2007 book On The Beach one of the most influential books of the decade in a survey conducted for our January 30th Visions of the Decade issue. Taken from hotel room windows in Hawaii over the course of three years from 2002–2005, Misrach’s large-format photographs of beach scenes were published by Aperture in a beautiful oversize book. (more…)

January 27th, 2010

After the Wall

Mig21

Mig-21, Mongolia. © Eric Lusito

Traveling through Russia and the former satelite states of the Soviet Union—from East Germany to Mongolia, from Poland to the far reaches of Kazakhstan—Eric Lusito sought to photograph the abandoned Soviet miltary bases that were left behind as the remnants of a fallen Empire. From its creation in 1961, the Berlin Wall became emblematic of the divide between the West and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War—when it came down in 1989, it signalled the collapse of Soviet hegemony over the Eastern Bloc. After the Wall, just published by Dewi Lewis, is Eric Lusito’s photographic record of the land and architecture—haunted by the symbols and history of a once powerful Empire.

January 26th, 2010

Andrea

"Andrea"; Buenos Aires, 2009_Architect

Andrea, Buenos Aires, 2009, from a personal project photographed by Los Angeles based fashion photographer Eleonora Ghioldi.