An enjoyable and surprisingly succinct summation of Jacques Derrida’s key concepts, albeit highly reductive. The School of Life Series is a wonderful “idiots guide”to the history of ideas. Their more recent output seems to be now centered on emotional and socio/cultural phenomenae, but still features their clipped, intelligent and wryly humorous bent.
Los Angeles-based painter Dion Johnson makes dynamic hard-edged works. Geometric forms mutate intuitively with graphic contrasting colors into delicately balanced compositions. Continue reading DION JOHNSON, recent hard-edge abstraction from Los Angeles
A TRIBUTE TO JOHN FAHEY
Tijani Sitou, of Yoruban ethnicity and born in Nigeria, apprenticed with a Malian photographer in the eastern city of Gao. He eventually settled in Mopti, Mali, in 1971, opening Photo Kodak, where he ran a thriving business until the 1990s. The studio proved so successful that Sitou funded a 1978 journey to Mecca, earning him the title El Hadj. Continue reading EL HADJ TIJANI ÀDÌGÚN SITOU, Photographer, Mali, (1932-1999)
Seydou Keïta (1921 — 21 November 2001) was a Malian photographer. He is mostly known for his portraits of people and families he took between 1940 and the early 1960s and that are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art.
Santu Mofokeng (1956) is a South African news photographer who works under the alias Mofokengâ. Mofokeng is a member of the Afrapix collective and has won a Prince Claus Award.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher, cultural critic, and Hegelian Marxist. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London.
Weegee (Złoczów (Zolochiv) 1899-1968, New York
Charles Sodokoff and Arthur Webber Use Their Top Hats to Hide Their Faces
January 27, 1942
The Incubator 