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A trace for each face

Faces are part of the individual and collective imaginations. They are invented. This is especially so of those belonging to characters who have made a strong impression on others.   Armando Orozco Tovar   Faces also let us see people as we imagine them: by their actions and especially for […]

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The urban palimpsests

The cover of the CD, Home, from electronic, drum and bass outfit, Rudimental, features the Hackney Peace Mural.   Steve Latham   I remember it being painted in 1985. I am surprised that it still exists and has not been painted over, in some act of so-called urban regeneration. The […]

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Paper graveyards

“Paper graveyards” is a collection of essays by Eduardo Cadava, a professor at Princeton, that sees photography as invested with a migratory potential, the ability to shift away from itself and form new relations with other media.   Sean Sheehan   Cadava’s approach could be regarded with suspicion, another postmodernist […]