Francesco Somaini
Francesco Somaini was an Italian sculptor.
Francesco Somaini was an Italian sculptor.
In 1968, a magazine with the programmatic title Provoke was published in Tokyo by the photographer and writer Takuma Nakahira, the art critic Koji Taki and other members. Investigating the relation between photography and text, the magazine was an artistic and philosophical manifesto, responding to the upheavals of the late sixties. Originally published in very small editions (Provoke magazine had a print run of 1,000 copies), the publications reprinted in The Japanese Box are extremely rare today and almost impossible to find, even in Japan.
The highly influential quarterly photo-journal Déjà-vu began publishing in 1990 with Iizawa Kohtaro as editor-in-chief. In terms of production value - gorgeous printing, heavy paper stock - each issue is really more of a book than a magazine.
Zingmagazine is a contemporary art magazine founded in 1995 by artist Devon Dikeou.
Francesco Laurana was a Dalmatian-born sculptorand medallist. He was one of the most significant and most complex sculptors of the 15th century - complex because of his activities within varying cultural circles and his exposure to differing influences. His best works evolved in the workshop tradition in collaboration with other artists. His portrait busts reveal a creative individuality that was seen as particularly fascinating in the late 19th century.
Wendingen was an art magazine that appeared from 1918 to 1932. The magazine gained recognition not only through its content but also by its remarkable square format and the striking typography of architect El Lissitzky, Vilmos Huszar and others.
Pamela Weir-Quiton is an underrated artist who makes sculptures in wood.
Miroslav Tichý was a photographer who from the 1960s to 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware they are being photographed.
Between 1985 and 1995 Helmut Newton published his most powerful pictures in his own magazine, Helmut Newton's Illustrated. Only four issues were ever published.
Bruce Davidson is an American photographer.