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- Al-Mimar is a Damascus-based freelance photographer, a trained
chemist and an amateur historian. His grandfather was a Pasha
engineer during the Ottoman period, and Mimar’s family legacy is an
important part of his photographic work. He is interested in architectural
structures, crowds, portraiture, and ceremonies, working
mainly in series format. His work has been exhibited at the Centre
Culturel Français, Damascus, the Zeughausgalerie, Vienna, and at
Galerie Michel Degrève, Paris
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Urban spaces / urban landscape vs orientalism / occident
In ccordination with the workshop about urban space in Damascus and following my comments on the new Walid Raaed exhibition about Contemporary Art in NENA reagion, I would like to RAISE with you the idea of urban spaces in contemporary Art in this reagion as kind of occident phenomenon. interaction and exchange betwenn cultures is always a healthy procedure as it could always be a source of insperation but at the same time there is a thin line between exchange and import / narotate .
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Posted on August 1, 2008 at 12:40am —
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here you can find all receipts. pictures and manifesto
hope you like it
I completely agree, it is a great book, so great actually, that I did my entire graduation thesis on it!
I have English, French and Arabic copies of is too....as for Camera Lucida, I haven't seen my copy at home in a while among the mysterious continuously mounting piles in my room, so maybe when I do my final packing in September, I might run into it....
Sorry!
what we would be looking for in the city would be something related to each of your researches. so maybe we could discuss and find a way in which this workshop would benefit your research.
Perhaps we could relate your assignement to the process you want to undertake for you research - photographing different categories of people etc...- what do you think? For example you could find a photo (maybe in the media) or a couple that you think represents best each of the categories you have advanced. Or maybe you have already done that?
and for our international colleagues.. "your life with me is a desperate bowl of salad"
:D
"Sander separated his images into seven broad categories: "The Farmer," "The Skilled Tradesman," "The Artists," "The Woman," "The City" "Classes and Professions," and the marginalized figures he called "The Last People." By 1945, Sander's archive included some 40,000 images." from the article "just regular folks", Wall Street Journal
more over there was a SCALE next to teh human beings.
latter in hystory and after the many changes in teh tasks of photography and after the expansion of teh photography subjects. came the GERMAN photographer family Bernd and Hilla Becher who -FORMALLY- depected teh cilinical aproach . but due to the context that became a landmark in the modern photography. under what called GERMAN SCHOOL.
myself i conceder the FAMILY ALBUM as a big NARRATIVE source for telling about man story.
just loved to input to ur letter.
many kind regards
Aiham