Reading without rhythm – 24/4/08

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Thanks TokyoMango!
- Vom leisen Inferno der Depression und von der Unheimlichkeit des Glücks.
- Vantan gets a sneak preview of the Peranakan Museum. The museum occupies the old Tao Nan school building at Armenian Street, next to The Substation.
- PingMag pays homage to Tony Silver, one of the first to identify and capture the [...]

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Life Before Death

German photographer Walter Schels was terrified of death, but felt compelled to take these extraordinary series of portraits of people before and on the day they died. His partner Beate Lakotta recorded the poignant and revealing interviews with the subjects in their final days.
Haven’t you seen these yet? Or at least read the article?
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There’s a [...]

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100 Suns; Arsenals of Folly

I’m having some difficulty writing about 100 Suns. This is the collection of photos documenting above-ground nuclear explosions selected and compiled by Michael Light. On the one hand I’m fascinated by the images and on the other repulsed by all the horror they imply.
How easy it is to aestheticise the photos. Form, colour, texture – [...]

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Foto Friday

6ixth – Jeff Chouw’s photo exhibition of Opposition MP Chiam See Tong campaigning in 2006 — is now online on Chouw’s site.
(Found via Tan Pin Pin’s blog. And coincidentally: Yisheng’s just posted his review of the 2006 exhibition up on his blog.)
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An extract from the NYT feature on Yoshiyuki Kohei’s series on park voyeurs (picked [...]

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