The Eyes # 9 – Images & Power
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THE EYES 9 INTRODUCTION Christian Caujolle • 6 PORTFOLIOS Against Power • 10 David Fathi Suspicious Minds • 20 Viktoria Binschtok Photographs in 3 Acts • 30 SU Ethan Levitas Photography, Weapon of Class • 40 Centre Georges Pompidou Living Photographs • 50 Arthur Mole Images of Struggle • 60 MMABeaux Arts de Paris The American Way of Life • 70 Josep Renau Spirit Is a Bone • 78 Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin FORUM The King of Photography • 88 176 • Dorothea Lange at the Jeu De Paume Tiane Doan na Champassak by Émilie Lemoine RY Sorry For Damage Done • 96 180 • Baptiste Rabichon & Emeric Lhuisset Vincent Wittenberg & Wladimir Manshanden BMW Residency Two Donkeys In a War Zone • 104 by Gisèle Tavernier Clément Lambelet Portraits: 186 • Nabil Canaan: The Daring BIBLIOMANIA 188 • Marion Hislen: On the Margin 190 • Simon Baker: Self-Mep Man Conversation • 114 192 • David Solo: Series Collector Donovan Wylie with Rémi Coignet 194 • Luce Lebart: The Taste of the Archive The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen • 124 by Émilie Lemoine Armin Linke 196 • Paris Photo: Women Photographers My Birth • 126 by Gisèle Tavernier Carmen Winant 202 • Between Performance and Photography Brecht War Primer • 128 by Sophie Bernard Bertold Brecht 206 • Photographing Paris: New Views of the City My Shadow’s Reflection • 130 by Fannie Escoulen, Pierre Hourquet and Anna Planas Edmund Clark 212 • Moving Borders This print is offered by Picto Foundation Enrique 2012–2018 • 132 by Vivien Marcillac David Fathi, Against Power Alejandro Cartagena Real Nazis • 134 Piotr Uklanski Long Live the Glorious May Seventh Directive • 136 Interview with Jeffrey Ladd Protest and Propaganda Books • 142 Dieter Neubert Los Últimas Días Vistos Del Rey • 148 Julián Barón Images of Hassan the Fighter • 115426 Hannah Darabi Small Change: When Auto-Censorship on the Internet Becomes Ridiculous • 160 Erik Kessels The hidden facet of fashion • 166 Harley Weir JR-Momentum • 172 Valentin Marceau NATHALIE AMAE MARC FEUSTEL JAVIER ORTIZ-ECHAGÜE Is involved in the foundation of major international Author, publisher and curator. He founded the blog Has a degree in Art History and a PhD in Information art fairs in the fields of publishing, photography, eyecurious.com in 2009. Sciences from Madrid Complutense University. He is design and primitive arts. Artistic director for galleries currently professor at Navarra University. and curator, she is currently director of the Alta Volta ALEXIA GUGGÉMOS Agency. Chasing images and talents on Instagram, Alexia GISÈLE TAVERNIER CO Guggémos is an art critic specializing in digital art Independent journalist specializing in photography SOPHIE BERNARD and contemporary photography. In 1996 she created critique and the photography market. After being chief editor of Images magazine for 12 the first virtual museum on the internet, the Musée years, Sophie Bernard is now a freelance journalist du Sourire. PASCALE LE THOREL and teacher. She has published Rencontres avec Curator and art critic. She is the director of the Guillaume Herbaut (Filigranes Editions). JEFFREY LADD books’ editions of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure American photographer and writer living in des Beaux-Arts LÉA BISMUTH Germany. He co-founded Errata Editions. NTRI Born in 1983, Léa Bismuth is an art critic (AICA), EYAL WEIZMAN art history teacher and independent curator. RUSSET LEDERMAN Architect, professor of spatial and visual cultures American author and media artist. She is and director of the Centre for Research Architecture MARIA-KARINA BOJIKIAN a co-founder of 10x10 Photobooks and teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. Head photo editor at Marie Claire magazine. at the School of Visual Arts in New York. PAUL WOMBELL CHRISTIAN CAUJOLLE ÉMILIE LEMOINE Independent curator. He writes on photography and BUT Former head of photography at Libération, founder Independent journalist, author and doctor in English technology, and lives in London. Between 2011 and 2014, of Agence VU, director of the gallery of the same Studies. he was the artistic director of the photographic mission name, Christian Caujolle is today author and on the French landscape, France (s) Liquid Territory. independent curator. He is the artistic director MARC LENOT of the Photo Phnom Penh festival. Writer, critic and author of the blog Lunettes Rouges. FEDERICA CHIOCCHETTI OR Italian author, curator and lecturer specializing MARTA MARTÍN NÚÑEZ in photography. Founding director of the photo- PhD in Communication and a degree in literary platform The Photocaptionist, she teaches Advertising and Public Relations and Audiovisual at the Paris College of Art. Communication from the Universitat Jaume I. She studied photography at the BlankPaper School. HANNAH DARABI Iranian Artist-photographer born in 1981 in Tehran, CAROLE NAGGAR S studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran, then at Writer and photography historian. Among her the University Paris VIII-Saint-Denis. Now living in recent publications are: Magnum Photobook (Phaidon, Paris, she is developing a work that is largely in line with Fred Ritchin), Saul Leiter: In My Room (Steidl) with the urban landscape. Her country of origin and Inge Morath, An Illustrated Biography (series editor remains the main subject of most of her photographic Prestel & Magnum Foundation). series. DIETER NEUBERT LILIAN ENGELMANN He has studied visual communication at the Art historian, former head of the Frankfurter University of Kassel and is the Founder and Director Kunstverein Museum, and currently director of the Kassel Fotobookfestival and Founder of the of the nGbK Museum in Berlin since 2015. Kassel Photobook and Dummy Awards. He is also the chief editor of the monographic magazine HORACIO FERNÁNDEZ PHOTOPAPER. Historian of photography, an exhibition curator and a lecturer in the History of Photography at the CHRISTIAN OMODEO Cuenca Faculty of Fine Arts. 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. INTRODUCTION photographic portrait became the rule, and its prints became presents exchanged Christian Caujolle between the powerful. This is, for example, how Rama V, the great King of Thailand in the 19th century and amateur of the photographic technique, granted a photographer the privilege of becoming the official photographer of the royal family. During his travels to Europe in 1897 and 1907 he exchanged photographic portraits with Queen Victoria, Tsar Nicholas II and Pope Pius X, demonstrating not only his modernity but IN Around the world in last few years, and again very recently, we have been hearing also the “reality” of the power of his country, the only one in the region to have resisted about various political and media “affairs” based on the circulation and interpretation all colonialist efforts. All over the world – from the Hall of Emperors in Rome to the of images. The upsurge of what once was a form of blackmail or a way to rewrite history sinister sets of photographic portraits of the top-ranked officials hanging in the hall- with manipulated or rigged photographs simply sheds new light over the current status ways of the Prague secret political police quarters – the faces are there, watching the of the image and the way in which it relates to the power(s) that be. people, to intimidate, even terrorize, as much as to convince of the regime’s legitimacy. Indeed, the point is not only to assert power through the image; it is to anchor its Two major and new sources can be defined. TRO legitimacy. And this entails the multiplication and dissemination of the reference image While they do not make any of us photographers – contrary to popular belief, and when as well as the organization of its codes, along with the deployment of efforts to gain the opposite seems more likely – smartphones allow anyone to be a witness, a recorder, control of it. Such a process, so obvious in the realm of political power, applies also, in even an informer, and with the opportunity to immediately disseminate to an infinite even more complex ways, to the realm of religions. Some, including Christianity (based number of followers, via social media, the fruit of their capture. Such “shares” are on the image, the repetition increasingly used to denunciate, and are thus viewed very seriously by the authorities of the Christ’s face – the holy face of martyrdom), appeal to belief, piety, compassion because it is now extremely easy to fiddle with the primary images. Many fake news are and appreciation; but should the rules be broken, they appeal to eternal adversity and based on such images. punishment. Many texts seeking to validate the notion that the relic of the Shroud of Turin may be “the first photograph” – via the bitumen of Judea – strengthen the The other major source comes from the pervasive surveillance devices. For purposes determination of the Catholic Church to use the silver image to demonstrate the (or justifications) that have as much to do with the war against terrorism as with the lure existence of a divine character and his incarnation among the mortals. The fact that of absolute control over the population, they are symbolized everywhere – on the streets, the Lutheran schism – as much as the refusal to represent God in other monotheist on public transport, in shops, or in apartments and office buildings – by the presence of religions, including Islam – has asserted the contrary by adopting an iconoclast attitude, surveillance cameras. Most democracies are aware that surveillance systems can says much about the power issues related to the representation or the non-representation constitute a serious breach of privacy, and they have thus designed (often) sophisticated of the divine. This is still manifest today, when fundamentalists attack works of art, legislative frameworks. However, each new scandal proves that these are, deliberately photographs, paintings, plays and films featuring a character or an episode of the for the most part, moderately, poorly or not at all enforced.