Issue 17, available now
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Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the release of the seventeenth issue of Prefix Photo magazine. Its theme is “the last photograph.” The issue features contributors writing on a host of photo, media and installation artists, including the following:
Cuauhtémoc Medina offers a meditation on Rosângela Rennó’s A Última foto and the conversion from analogue photography to digital imagery.
Louis Kaplan interprets Simon Glass’ gicleé prints entitled The Ten Commandments/ Prohibited Weapons through the lens of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida.
Kim Sawchuk writes about Nichola Feldman-Kiss’ mean body database series and the mass production of human-shaped databases and anthropometric standards.
Other contributors include Robert Burley, Nichola Feldman-Kiss, Johannes Franzen, Simon Glass, Kenneth J. Harvey, Ryoji Ikeda, Rosângela Rennó, and more.
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