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A Photographic Tribute to Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

by Claire Voon September 1, 2017August 31, 2017

In a new book, Raoul Ries uses his camera to weave together a new, 21st-century narrative of the mountain.

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In Venice, With That Sinking Feeling

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez August 12, 2017August 16, 2017

The book Migropolis: Venice, edited by Wolfgang Scheppe, examines the migrant and tourist crises afflicting Italy’s fabled “water city.”

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A Photographer’s Uncanny Images of Amusement Parks at Night

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 23, 2017May 23, 2017

After the sun set and the amusement park closed, photographer Stefano Cerio documented the surreal scenes of its vacant rides.

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Inexplicable Found Photographs of Women in Trees

by Claire Voon October 12, 2016October 12, 2016

It all began at a flea market in Frankfurt, when photo collector Jochen Raiß came across a picture of a woman wearing a summer dress and high heels.

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The Uncanny Nature of Fake Flowers

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 1, 2016

The 73 photographic plates in Robert Voit’s The Alphabet of New Plants each frame a different floral detail, from bursting blooms to twisting branches.

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The 9th-Century Islamic “Instrument Which Plays by Itself”

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 12, 2016October 15, 2022

In the 9th century, the Banū Mūsā brothers in Baghdad designed a mechanical, hydraulic organ that was made to play endlessly by itself.

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Surreal Photographs of Chinese Amusement Parks in Hibernation

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 6, 2015August 7, 2015

Italian photographer Stefano Cerio has captured ski resorts at night, empty cruise ships, drained water parks, and, most recently, the uncanny bleakness of China’s off-season amusement parks and other constructed entertainment.

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Contemporary Photography’s Capitalist Realism

by Jörg Colberg March 21, 2015March 26, 2015

In Caspar David Friedrich’s “Frau vor untergehender Sonne” (“Woman before the Rising Sun”), a young woman is depicted facing the rising sun, which turns her almost completely, but not entirely, into a silhouette.

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