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Brazilian Participation in FIAP, 1950–1965

Brazilian Participation in FIAP, 1950–1965

2023

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Book review: Katrīna Teivāne, "Roberts Johansons. Zeitgeist and Photography"

Book review: Katrīna Teivāne, "Roberts Johansons. Zeitgeist and Photography"

Completing an Unfinished Sentence: On the Collaboration between Sophie Thun and the Archive of Zenta Dzividzinska

Completing an Unfinished Sentence: On the Collaboration between Sophie Thun and the Archive of Zenta Dzividzinska

Women with Cameras: Providing Erotic Entertainment for the Male Audience While Working as Photographers

Women with Cameras: Providing Erotic Entertainment for the Male Audience While Working as Photographers

Working the Labor-Leisure Machine: Proposal for a Photography Museum Without Images

Working the Labor-Leisure Machine: Proposal for a Photography Museum Without Images

2022

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Photography Without Images: A Proposal to Think About the Medium as Practice, Apparatus, and Form of Social Interaction

Photography Without Images: A Proposal to Think About the Medium as Practice, Apparatus, and Form of Social Interaction

Sophie Thun Interprets Zenta Dzividzinska’s Negatives: A Case Study of Exploring and Re-evaluation of a Private Photo Archive

Sophie Thun Interprets Zenta Dzividzinska’s Negatives: A Case Study of Exploring and Re-evaluation of a Private Photo Archive

What Is the Flag We Rally Around? Trust in Information Sources at the Outset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latvia

What Is the Flag We Rally Around? Trust in Information Sources at the Outset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latvia

New View on Latvian Soviet-Era Press Photography

New View on Latvian Soviet-Era Press Photography

2021

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The Most Popular Art Medium that Has Two Festivals and a Gallery. A Reflection on Photography and Photographers in Latvia’s Art World

The Most Popular Art Medium that Has Two Festivals and a Gallery. A Reflection on Photography and Photographers in Latvia’s Art World

Is COVID-19 an “Ordinary Flu” That Benefits Politicians? Perception of Pandemic Disinformation in Latvia

Is COVID-19 an “Ordinary Flu” That Benefits Politicians? Perception of Pandemic Disinformation in Latvia

The Lesser Known Romantic Side of Soviet Art

The Lesser Known Romantic Side of Soviet Art

Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska

Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska

2020

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#dailyphotography and #fail

#dailyphotography and #fail

Is This the Right Time for Landscape Photography?

Is This the Right Time for Landscape Photography?

The “Olympiad of Photography”: FIAP and the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965

The “Olympiad of Photography”: FIAP and the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965

2019

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Introduction to José Oiticica Filho's “Setting the Record Straighter”

Introduction to José Oiticica Filho's “Setting the Record Straighter”

Following the Invisible Hand: The Role of Photo Clubs, Magazines, Exhibitions, and Curators in Latvian Photography, 1960–2000

Following the Invisible Hand: The Role of Photo Clubs, Magazines, Exhibitions, and Curators in Latvian Photography, 1960–2000

FIAP Biennial in Photokina 1956: A Revolt Against the Universal Language of Photography

FIAP Biennial in Photokina 1956: A Revolt Against the Universal Language of Photography

2018

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Five Sensational Tweets about Photographs That I Have Not Seen

Five Sensational Tweets about Photographs That I Have Not Seen

Machines, Methods, and Humans: On the Production Line of Contemporary Photography

Machines, Methods, and Humans: On the Production Line of Contemporary Photography

Fifty Year Eclipse: Illuminating the Forgotten Legacy of Photographer Vilis Rīdzenieks

Fifty Year Eclipse: Illuminating the Forgotten Legacy of Photographer Vilis Rīdzenieks

Seeing a Century Through the Lens of Sovetskoe Foto

Seeing a Century Through the Lens of Sovetskoe Foto

The Family of Man: The Photography Exhibition that Everybody Loves to Hate

The Family of Man: The Photography Exhibition that Everybody Loves to Hate

The Myth of Straight Photography: Sharp Focus as a Universal Language

The Myth of Straight Photography: Sharp Focus as a Universal Language

The Selfie: More and Less than a Self-Portrait

The Selfie: More and Less than a Self-Portrait

Competitive Photography and the Presentation of the Self

Competitive Photography and the Presentation of the Self

2017

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¿Qué separa a los fotógrafos de los artistas? My article translated into Spanish

¿Qué separa a los fotógrafos de los artistas? My article translated into Spanish

The Past is Present: Time and Space in Māra Brašmane’s Photographs of the Riga Central Market

The Past is Present: Time and Space in Māra Brašmane’s Photographs of the Riga Central Market

Underexposed Photographers: Life Magazine and Photojournalists’ Social Status in the 1950s

Underexposed Photographers: Life Magazine and Photojournalists’ Social Status in the 1950s

Into the Photographers’ Universe: What Separates Photographers from Artists?

Into the Photographers’ Universe: What Separates Photographers from Artists?

São Paulo photographers in FIAP, 1950-1965

São Paulo photographers in FIAP, 1950-1965

The Misunderstood 'Universal Language' of Photography

The Misunderstood 'Universal Language' of Photography

The 'Cosmopolitan Art': The FIAP Yearbooks of Photography, 1954–60

The 'Cosmopolitan Art': The FIAP Yearbooks of Photography, 1954–60

Exhibition review: "Anri Sala: Answer Me" at the New Museum, New York

Exhibition review: "Anri Sala: Answer Me" at the New Museum, New York

Rules of the Photographers’ Universe

Rules of the Photographers’ Universe

Photography in Latvia, 1970–2000

Photography in Latvia, 1970–2000

2016

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Photography: Taken, not Made

Photography: Taken, not Made

The Networked Camera at Work: Why Every Self-Portrait Is Not a Selfie, but Every Selfie is a Photograph

The Networked Camera at Work: Why Every Self-Portrait Is Not a Selfie, but Every Selfie is a Photograph

2015

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Exhibition review: Public Eye at the New York Public Library

Exhibition review: Public Eye at the New York Public Library

The Impossibility of Capturing Butoh in Photography

The Impossibility of Capturing Butoh in Photography

Steichen, The Artist and Propagandist

Steichen, The Artist and Propagandist

Selfiecity: Exploring Photography and Self-Fashioning in Social Media

Selfiecity: Exploring Photography and Self-Fashioning in Social Media

Art of the Masses: From Kodak Brownie to Instagram

Art of the Masses: From Kodak Brownie to Instagram

Making Sense of the Selfie: Digital Image-Making and Image-Sharing in Social Media

Making Sense of the Selfie: Digital Image-Making and Image-Sharing in Social Media

2014

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Introduction to exhibition I am Your Servant, I am Your Worker

Introduction to exhibition I am Your Servant, I am Your Worker

What’s Next after the Year of the Selfie, or Work-in-Progress by Lev Manovich and the Software Studies Initiative

What’s Next after the Year of the Selfie, or Work-in-Progress by Lev Manovich and the Software Studies Initiative

Introducing Selfiecity

Introducing Selfiecity

The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 Hours in Kyiv

The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 Hours in Kyiv

Our Muddy Boots on Their Marble Floor: Identity and Self-Fashioning in Latvian Contemporary Art

Our Muddy Boots on Their Marble Floor: Identity and Self-Fashioning in Latvian Contemporary Art

2013

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Landscapes for Insiders

Landscapes for Insiders

The New Masters of the Land, preliminary outline of the Latvian pavilion at the Venice Biennale

The New Masters of the Land, preliminary outline of the Latvian pavilion at the Venice Biennale

My introduction to the pavilion of Latvia at the 55th Venice Biennale

My introduction to the pavilion of Latvia at the 55th Venice Biennale

Book Review: Toward a New Art History of the Soviet Period

Book Review: Toward a New Art History of the Soviet Period

2012

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Exhibition review: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Exhibition review: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Exhibition review: Tom Sachs, "Space Program: Mars" at the Park Avenue Armory, New York

Exhibition review: Tom Sachs, "Space Program: Mars" at the Park Avenue Armory, New York

Exhibition review: dOCUMENTA (13)

Exhibition review: dOCUMENTA (13)

Exhibition review: Art of Another Kind at the Guggenheim, New York

Western Rock Videos of the 1980s and 1990s in the Soviet Union

Western Rock Videos of the 1980s and 1990s in the Soviet Union

The Peasant Woman Leads the Dance: Some Ambiguities Presented by Vera Mukhina’s Sculpture

The Peasant Woman Leads the Dance: Some Ambiguities Presented by Vera Mukhina’s Sculpture

The First Exhibition of Fine Art Photography in Latvia after World War II. 1957-1958

The First Exhibition of Fine Art Photography in Latvia after World War II. 1957-1958

Exhibition review: Ostalgia at the New Museum, New York (ARTMargins)

Exhibition review: Ostalgia at the New Museum, New York (ARTMargins)

Photographers’ Escape Route: Camera Club as a Place of Control and a Platform of Resistance in the Postwar Soviet Union

Photographers’ Escape Route: Camera Club as a Place of Control and a Platform of Resistance in the Postwar Soviet Union

Unconventional Art: The Emergence of New Photographic art in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

Unconventional Art: The Emergence of New Photographic art in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

2011

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Exhibition review: And Others – Movements, Explorations and Artists in Latvia 1960–1984

Exhibition review: And Others – Movements, Explorations and Artists in Latvia 1960–1984

Book review: Creative Networks by Rasa Smite

Book review: Creative Networks by Rasa Smite

Exhibition review: Ostalgia at the New Museum, New York (Studija)

The Origin of Homo Novus in Latvian Photography

The Origin of Homo Novus in Latvian Photography

Photographer Inta Ruka

Photographer Inta Ruka

Five Sentences about Soviet Art

Five Sentences about Soviet Art

Photographers Breaking the Iron Curtain: The Role of Informal International Communication Networks in Soviet Photography

Photographers Breaking the Iron Curtain: The Role of Informal International Communication Networks in Soviet Photography

The New Wave of Photography: The Role of Documentary Photography in Latvian Art Scene During the Glasnost Era

The New Wave of Photography: The Role of Documentary Photography in Latvian Art Scene During the Glasnost Era

2010

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Exhibition review: La Subversion des images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film

Exhibition review: La Subversion des images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film

Exhibition review: Photokina 2010

Exhibition review: Photokina 2010

Exhibition review: Paris Photo 2010

Exhibition review: Paris Photo 2010

Latvian Photographer Uldis Briedis and Some Aspects of Documentary Photography

Latvian Photographer Uldis Briedis and Some Aspects of Documentary Photography

Exhibition review: Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe in Vienna

Exhibition review: Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe in Vienna

Exhibition review: Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010, Rauma, Finland

Exhibition review: Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010, Rauma, Finland

Exhibition review: Chasing Napoleon at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Exhibition review: Chasing Napoleon at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

From Photographic Art to Photography in Art

From Photographic Art to Photography in Art

If We Really Do Love Art, We Live in It. The Image of Contemporary Art and Artist in Latvian Art Criticism of the 1990s

If We Really Do Love Art, We Live in It. The Image of Contemporary Art and Artist in Latvian Art Criticism of the 1990s

2009

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Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson

Exhibition Review: the 53rd Venice Biennale, Making Worlds

Exhibition Review: the 53rd Venice Biennale, Making Worlds

Exhibition review: the 4th Prague Biennale and the 1st Prague Photo Biennale

Exhibition review: the 4th Prague Biennale and the 1st Prague Photo Biennale

Exhibition review: Urban Stories, The X Baltic Triennial of International Art in Vilnius

Exhibition review: Urban Stories, The X Baltic Triennial of International Art in Vilnius

2008

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Exhibition review: Wolfgang Tillmans, "Lighter" in Berlin

Exhibition review: Wolfgang Tillmans, "Lighter" in Berlin

Exhibition review: the 4th Hamburg Photo Triennale

Exhibition review: the 4th Hamburg Photo Triennale

Exhibition review: the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture

Exhibition review: the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture

Exhibition Review: Hotel Polonia at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennial

Exhibition Review: Hotel Polonia at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennial

Exhibition review: Manifesta 7, Trentino – Alto Adige, Italy

Exhibition review: Manifesta 7, Trentino – Alto Adige, Italy

The Language and Value of Things under Communism and Capitalism

The Language and Value of Things under Communism and Capitalism

Art Belongs to the People! Socialist Realism in Photography

Art Belongs to the People! Socialist Realism in Photography

Socialist Realism, Capitalist Realism, and Documentary Photography

Socialist Realism, Capitalist Realism, and Documentary Photography

2007

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Photography at the 52nd Venice Biennial

Photography at the 52nd Venice Biennial

Exhibition review: the 52nd Venice Biennale, Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind

Exhibition review: the 52nd Venice Biennale, Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind

Exhibition review: La Biennale de Lyon 2007

Exhibition review: La Biennale de Lyon 2007

2006

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Photographer Gunars Binde

Photographer Gunars Binde

Exhibition review: Art Basel, Volta Show, and Liste 2006

Exhibition review: Art Basel, Volta Show, and Liste 2006

Exhibition review: Brighton Photo Biennial 2006

Exhibition review: Brighton Photo Biennial 2006

Exhibition review: Liverpool Biennial 2006

Exhibition review: Liverpool Biennial 2006

2005

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Interview: Latvian artist Linards Kulless

Interview: Latvian artist Linards Kulless

Exhibition review: Trespassers, art in Latvia in the 1980s

Exhibition review: Trespassers, art in Latvia in the 1980s

Exhibition review: Latvian contemporary art

Exhibition review: Latvian contemporary art

Exhibition review: the 51st Venice Biennale, The Experience of Art / Always a Little Further

Exhibition review: the 51st Venice Biennale, The Experience of Art / Always a Little Further

Interview: artist Laura Feldberga

Interview: artist Laura Feldberga

Exhibition review: Backlight 05, the 7th International Photography Triennial in Tampere, Finland

Exhibition review: Backlight 05, the 7th International Photography Triennial in Tampere, Finland

2004

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Interview: photographer Gunars Binde

Interview: photographer Gunars Binde

Exhibition review: Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

Exhibition review: Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

Exhibition review: Dream Island, international contemporary art show

Exhibition review: Dream Island, international contemporary art show

2003

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Exhibition review: Re:Public

Exhibition review: Re:Public

2002

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Three Stories About Love. Contemporary Art Through the Lens of Stanisław Lem and Jean Baudrillard

Three Stories About Love. Contemporary Art Through the Lens of Stanisław Lem and Jean Baudrillard

Exhibition review: the 8th Venice Biennale of Architecture

Exhibition review: the 8th Venice Biennale of Architecture

Irrefutable Rights Not To Be Understood

Irrefutable Rights Not To Be Understood

1999

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Alone With/Without Oneself. Introduction to artist's book by photographer Arnis Balcus

Alone With/Without Oneself. Introduction to artist's book by photographer Arnis Balcus

1998

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Communication Art: The End of Humanism or Beginning of Anti-Humanism? Or Not Yet?

Communication Art: The End of Humanism or Beginning of Anti-Humanism? Or Not Yet?