Text and images by Barbara Confino – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2013.
Artist and writer
Barbara Confino‘s new series,
Walkabout: The City As Image, explores urban life as a visual experience. Functioning as both cameraman and editor, the walker sees the physical and human environment as if it were a film in the making…
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Article by Don Burmeister in New York; Friday, April 12, 2013.
Thomas Ruff is one of the handful of art world superstars who emerged in the 1990’s from the Düsseldorf school of photography centered around Hilda and Bernd Becher…
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Blog post and photographs by Barbara Confino – in New York; Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
On a dark day in infinity the Universe imagined itself into existence, arriving barely bigger than a dot. From nothing it blew itself up into a gigantic, oddly shaped balloon in which small groups of dissatisfied gases clung…
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Blog post by Barbara Confino – in New York; Saturday, Aug. 04, 2012.
From the beginning Berlin confounds me. My first impression of this city built on a swamp is dreary. I find most of its famous old buildings disproportionally massive, its wide avenues tacky and commercial, and am thinking this is an ugly city when I discover something else. Having gone to the Museum of Natural History to pay my respects to the dinosaurs, I chance upon a photography exhibit detailing the variety of wildlife… [read on…]
