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Jenny Holzer - Truisms (1977-79)

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GRMLN | Coral

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Charles Swedlund, Buffalo, New York (Female Nude), 1970

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rad

Things are Queer (1973) by Duane Michals

This piece by Duane Michals comprises nine photographs, each one a detail of the one that follows. The first shot shows a bog-standard bathroom. Then the camera pulls back to reveal what is either an oversized man, or an undersized bathroom: the man’s foot is the size of the lavatory-bowl. During the ensuing sequence, it emerges that the photograph of the man in the tiny bathroom is itself a picture in a book being read by another man in an alley. Then it turns out that the man reading the book in the alley is also a picture of a picture in a frame which is hanging on a wall. The final twist in this circuitous tale is the revelation that this picture of the man reading the book in the alley is itself a picture hanging on the original bathroom wall. Things are Queer neatly challenges the viewer’s assumptions about the photographic version of reality. The sequence taken as a whole has a cheeky intrigue - at no point can we actually identify the perspective of the camera, the reality of each shot is superseded by the next.

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C'est le temps de l'amour, le temps des copains et de l'aventure. (It's time to love, time for friends and adventure.) 

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And I simply saw you.

This forever touches me.

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THIS set up.

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autorretrato /self-portrait

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"Jackpot," Fred Herzog, 1961

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"Victoria," Fred Herzog, 1967

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must bring back "going steady"

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Kimono (1963), Eikoh Hosoe

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terra incognita ("unknown land"), mare incognitum ("unknown sea")