The Eyes #9
The Eyes #9
Images & Powers
While currently quite topical, the concept of fake news – or biased news – is as old as politics. It could be considered a form of propaganda. In this issue, The Eyes has decided to explore, by necessity only partially (in every sense of the term), the uses of images by the powers that be and the strategies developed by artists to unveil or even denounce them.
New technologies, video surveillance, facial recognition or even drones, reset this challenge at the heart of public debate. Ethan Levitas in the streets of New York, Clément Lambelet downloading from YouTube aerial images made by the American military, or David Fathi with his new project “Against Power”: they all question the practices of the powers that be.
It would be futile to try and understand the present without considering the past. These contemporary acts of resistance enter in dialogue with a graphic series about the years 1968–1974 with anti-Francoist photomontages from the Spaniard Josep Renau, or with excerpts from the exhibition “Photography, Weapon of Class” presented in autumn 2018 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
As usual, the Bibliomania section, which values the book as an essential tool for the understanding of photography, explores various past and contemporary experiences with Spanish propaganda books from the 1970s and Los Ultimos Dias Vistos del Rey, the satirical publication by Julián Barón; a long interview with Northern Irish photographer Donovan Wylie, who ceaselessly exposes military surveillance systems around the world; and artist and curator Hannah Darabi presenting the by the”fabrication” of an icon by the Iranian regime.
“Images & Powers”: a lively and collective theme and an invitation to think about our role with images – all of us producers, distributors and receivers. Ethics, aesthetics, politics – three notions dear to Christian Caujolle, our special guest for this issue – are certainly serious avenues to be pursued.
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTIONby Christian Caujolle
PORTFOLIOSAgainst Power David Fathi Suspicious Minds Viktoria Binschtok
Photographs in 3 Acts Ethan Levitas
Photographie, Centre Georges Pompidou
Living Photographs Arthur Mole
Images en Lutte Beaux Arts de Paris
The American Way of Life Josep Renau
Spirit Is a Bone Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
The King of Photography Tiane Doan na Champassak
Sorry For Damage Done Vincent Wittenberg & Wladimir Manshanden
Two Donkeys In a War Zone Clément Lambelet
| BIBLIOMANIAConversation Donovan Wylie
The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen Armin Linke
My Birth Carmen Winant
Brecht War Primer Bertold Brecht
My Shadow’s Reflection Edmund Clark
Enrique 2012-2018 Alejandro Cartagena
Real Nazis Piotr Uklanski
Long Live the Glorious May Seventh Directive Entretien avec Jeffrey Ladd
Protest And Propaganda Books Dieter Neubert
Los Últimas Días Vistos Del Rey Julian Barón
Images de Hassan Hannah Darabi
Small Change : Quand L’autocensure Sur Internet Frôle Le Risible Erik Kessels
Fashion Eye Sophie Bernard
JR Laurie Hurwitz | FORUMDorothea Lange au Jeu De Paume by Émilie Lemoine
Baptiste Rabichon & Emeric Lhuisset Résidence BMW
Portraits par Émilie Lemoine Nabil Canaan Marion Hislen Simon Baker David Solo Luce Lebart
Paris Photo : Femmes Photographes by Gisèle Tavernier
Between Performance by Sophie Bernard
Photographier Paris : Nouveaux Regards Sur La Ville by Fannie Escoulen, Pierre Hourquet and Anna Planas
Déplacer Les Frontières by Vivien Marcillac |
CONTRIBUTORS
Nathalie Amae Is involved in the foundation of major international art fairs in the fields of publishing, photography, design and primitive arts. Artistic director for galleries and curator, she is currently director of the Alta Volta Agency.
Sophie Bernard After being chief editor of Images magazine for 12 years, Sophie Bernard is now a freelance journalist and teacher. She has published Rencontres avec Guillaume Herbaut (Filigranes Editions).
Léa Bismuth Born in 1983, Léa Bismuth is an art critic (AICA), art history teacher and independent curator.
Maria-Karina Bojikian Head photo editor at Marie Claire magazine.
Christian Caujolle Former head of photography at Libération, founder of Agence VU, director of the gallery of the same name, Christian Caujolle is today author and independent curator. He is the artistic director of the Photo Phnom Penh festival.
Federica Chiocchetti Italian author, curator and lecturer specializing in photography. Founding director of the photo- literary platform The Photocaptionist, she teaches at the Paris College of Art.
Hannah Darabi Iranian Artist-photographer born in 1981 in Tehran, studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran, then at the University Paris VIII-Saint-Denis. Now living in Paris, she is developing a work that is largely in line with the urban landscape. Her country of origin remains the main subject of most of her photographic series.
Lilian Engelmann Art historian, former head of the Frankfurter Kunstverein Museum, and currently director of the nGbK Museum in Berlin since 2015.
Horacio Fernandez Historian of photography, an exhibition curator and a lecturer in the History of Photography at the Cuenca Faculty of Fine Arts.
Marc Feustel Author, publisher and curator. He founded the blog eyecurious.com in 2009.
Alexia Guggémos Chasing images and talents on Instagram, Alexia Guggémos is an art critic specializing in digital art and contemporary photography. In 1996 she created the first virtual museum on the internet, the Musée du Sourire.
Jeffrey Ladd American photographer and writer living in Germany. He co-founded Errata Editions. | Russet Lederman American author and media artist. She is a co-founder of 10×10 Photobooks and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Émilie Lemoine Independent journalist, author and doctor in English Studies.
Marc Lenot Writer, critic and author of the blog Lunettes Rouges.
Marta Martin-Muñez PhD in Communication and a degree in Advertising and Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat Jaume I. She studied photography at the BlankPaper School.
Carole Naggar Writer and photography historian. Among her recent publications are: Magnum Photobook (Phaidon, with Fred Ritchin), Saul Leiter: In My Room (Steidl) and Inge Morath, An Illustrated Biography (series editor Prestel & Magnum Foundation).
Dieter Neubert He has studied visual communication at the University of Kassel and is the Founder and Director of the Kassel Fotobookfestival and Founder of the Kassel Photobook and Dummy Awards. He is also the chief editor of the monographic magazine PHOTOPAPER.
Christian Omodeo Interested in urban cultures for 10 years, after studying the history of art between Italy and France. He is currently launching a bookshop devoted to urban cultures in the Oberkampf district of Paris.
Javier Ortiz-Echague Has a degree in Art History and a PhD in Information Sciences from Madrid Complutense University. He is currently professor at Navarra University.
Gisèle Tavernier Independent journalist specializing in photography critique and the photography market.
Pascale Le Thorel Curator and art critic. She is the director of the books’ editions of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Eyal Weizman Architect, professor of spatial and visual cultures and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Paul Wombel Independent curator. He writes on photography and technology, and lives in London. Between 2011 and 2014, he was the artistic director of the photographic mission on the French landscape, France (s) Liquid Territory. |
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