Y SIN EMBARGO magazine #20, Extimacy

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...

SPECIAL KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Fifty contemporary, cutting-edge photo-graphers open our eyes to the magical artificiality embraced by fashion photography today: chronicling the very processes of fashion, fashion photography is like fashion itself - it celebrates the immediate, the frivolous and the ephemeral. The striking images in this book playfully flirt with superficiality as readily as they take on the more established aesthetic conventions of art photography. Ingrained with paradox and contradiction fashion photography mirrors the moods and desired of the moment. And more:...

"This catalogue features works from the exhibition presented at Vallery from November 2nd to December 8th 2006"--Back cover.

En este libro todo está conectado: tanto es así que podemos leerlo del principio hacia el final o del final hacia el principio, según se nos antoje. Fuentes ha seleccionado a los personajes, lugares u objetos de la cultura de los últimos siglos más significativos para ella y los ha relacionado en un curioso juego de anécdotas y referencias cruzadas. En el entramado tejido con gracia y sensibilidad por la autora no faltan figuras míticas como Rita Hayworth, Kate Moss, Dalí, Oasis, o lugares evocadores como Nueva York, París o Marruecos. Todo esto contado a través del vislumbrante...