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“Liu Zheng: The Chinese”  

By Jessica D.
Last Updated: August 2005

“Liu Zheng: The Chinese” is the title of a book published by Steidl and an exhibition currently on view at Yossi Milo gallery (www.yossimilo.com). This body of work aims to supplant the rosy picture of China created by the socialist realist photography during the Mao Years, with a new grim reality thereby linking present China to its pre-Revolutionary past.

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Gregory Colbert’s
Ashes and Snow

By Jessica D.
Last Updated: June 2005

Gregory Colbert’s one man exhibition Ashes and Snow will close on June 8 th and those who haven’t yet visited it might want to check it out. However, one might characterize the show as an exercise in self-aggrandizement. In fact, it seems that the exhibit sets a record in art promotion and marketing; which is probably the best or the worst thing about it, depending on how you look at it.

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Bottles, Nickels and Garbage: One Woman’s Economic Survival

By Leslie Chow and Tony DeGeorge/Vision Fotos
Last Updated: April 2004

Recycling is a source of revenue for many elderly Chinese women in the Lower East Side of New York City. While most senior citizens are collecting social security, a group of Chinese women are collecting cans, bottles, canisters, and cigarette boxes to help make ends meet.

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Grump Issue 88. By David Vestal.
Last updated: June 25, 2003

peaceful means, little review from a letter, Overheard in a diner in Cheyenne in 1966, advice for photographers,
Andre Kertesz: “His Life and Work”
, more new tech, an uncertain project, shows

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Last updated: September 11th, 2002

A year has passed, and we have eulogized and memorialized and compared the tragic events on September 11th, 2001 with other events in history. The Battle Antedum, "Remember the Maine", and Pearl Harbor. Each of these events was catastrophic and immediately there was an outcry: "To arms! To protect!". In some cases it was the right way. But there are also questions.

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