How Legendary Filmmakers Funded Their Creative Lives The Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman wasn’t born into any special artistic lineage. Growing up, she was, in the words of a friend, “a lower-middle-class nobody whose father owned a clothing store.…

How Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard, other legendary filmmakers managed to fund their art.

Alexander Kluge, and of course, behind him, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in Munich in 1975.

Remembering Alexander Kluge … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Last chance to see: rare, giant Polaroids by Luigi Ghirri A 90kg Polaroid camera demanded that Luigi Ghirri brought the world to the photo studio. With the help of his trusty suitcase full of props, he wasn't far off

"The hulking older brother to Polaroid’s iconic folding SX-70, the Instant Land measured 64x105x150cm, weighed ~90kg + [printed] 50 x 60cm photos in 60 secs. Rather than taking it out into the 🌍, one needed to bring the 🌍 to it. Ghirri happily obliged, bringing with him suitcases full of props..."

"...what a 'museum of errantry' might be: not encyclopedic, not chronological, not something that promotes a fixed vision of culture, not a monument to a past..., but a constantly shifting archive [of] communication across borders + language barriers, of mvmnt that doesn’t seek to claim territory."

CINEMANIA a film by ANGELA CHRISTLIEB & STEPHEN KIJAK Five movie-obsessed individuals in New York detail their compulsive watching habits and moviegoing rituals.

"Mordant and confounding, this one-of-a-kind portrait of five individuals who attend two-to-five film screenings per day has achieved cult success for its brazen exploration of cinephiles’ most compulsive tendencies."

Screening free for the week @ Le Cinéma Club

© Cindy Sherman / Courtesy Thames and Hudson

© Cindy Sherman / Courtesy Thames and Hudson

Cindy Sherman: Retrospective. Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art.

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#photobooks #photography #photo #fotografie #blog #portraitphotography 📷 📸 #cindysherman

Art books at the Warburg Institute and Tate  - Monocle We explore the genre of art books at a new exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute, which explores art publishing and...

Enjoyed listening to Arnaud from The Everyday Press and Hlib from Biblioteka talk about artists’ books, libraries, and the politics of publishing!
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Ephemera Letterform Archive’s collection of ephemera aims to outlast its impermanent nature and provide endless design inspiration.

A collection of the Letterform Archive's ephemera — from chopstick wrappers to transit tickets to product labels to punk flyers to calendars

Paul Lukas shared a nice write-up about the show:

In Thread Memory, photography of Palestinian tatreez resists forgetting - 1854 Photography Making use of the Palestine Museum’s large digitised collection, Rachel Dedman curates photographic context to visual heritage not “limited to colonial collections”

The legacy of visual symbolism carries through Thread Memory, where archival material isn’t neutral; it’s radically local. Images are drawn not from state institutions or foreign-held collections “like the Library of Congress”, notes the curator but from families.”Palestine through Palestinian eyes”

film strips from “Broadway by Light,”

William Klein's first cinematic project in 1958.

Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89: Nobel laureate from Peru was the last of 'El Boom' novelists Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday.

It pays to be a nudge.

My obit of Mario Vargas Llosa — in all his literary complexity and right wing facho tendencies — is up.

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‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs - The esteemed film director began as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris – a exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet now presents her as a part of the city’s creative history www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

This exhibition looks wonderful.

(In the '70s I lived one street away from Varda's atelier & shopped at the rue Daguerre market, but never knew she was there, alas.)

Submissions are open for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and b…

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The last days of Walter Benjamin Hounded by the Nazis, the great philosopher took his life in 1940, leaving several mysteries unanswered

A very timely long read, with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/4fWX6pR

In 2021, Comme des Garçons worked with Chris Marker’s archive to create limited-edition catalogs and installations in NYC and London. Curated by Rei Kawakubo, the project wove together Marker’s photography, films, and text, drawing from the Cinémathèque française and his Staring Back exhibition.

A conversation with Mitch Anzuoni, editor of Inpatient Press We speak with Mitch Anzuoni of Inpatient Press, which joins the MIT Press this month as a distributed partner.

We are excited to announce that Inpatient Press has joined the MIT Press as a distributed partner! To celebrate this news, we sat down with founding editor Mitch Anzuoni to discuss his work and publishing philosophy: https://buff.ly/49nuK6h #publishingnews

A league of their own: Girl’s baseball team, coached by Tlingit photographer George Johnston. Photographed by Johnston at Nisutlin River, Yukon in 1941.

From ‘Unter Der Mitternachts Sonne.’ BlanketToss Under Midnight Sun (German edition)

Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever In a six-decade career that included "Breathless," "Week-end" and "Goodbye to Language," the unaccountably great and inventive artist always managed to tick off all the right people.

BOTD Jean Luc Godard!
We remain in awe of his 15 feature run, 1960-7
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@szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/6212979/jean...
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The July 1960 issue of DU Magazine is dedicated to Jean Cocteau. For me, it feels like an early take on yellow press home stories—intimate glimpses with a touch of flair. What really draws me in is the assemblage of images on his desk, especially the many photos of Picasso.

date inscribed Presented by the artist 2002

Tacita Dean, La Bataille d’Arras, 2001
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1121113

A new installation lets you hear extinct and endangered animal sounds, thanks to Björk The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.

Còmic sobre Varda dibuixat per Chris Marker (circa 1955).

Luigi Ghirri's Omaggio a (Homage to) Walter Benjamin, was published in 1989 in the Italian design and architecture magazine Ottagono.

The portfolio consists of sixteen plates of twenty-five color photographs of Paris taken between 1972 and 1987, edited and designed by Ghirri himself.

Exciting find. This 1973 Fernsehfibel is packed with 64 interactive boards. Designed for use in preschools, schools, and homes, these sheets aim to promote a changed use of the television medium and to critically engage with it.

Agnès Varda Cléo de 5 à 7 – feat. Rainer Maria Rilke, Denis Diderot, Gustave Flaubert, Hans Baldung Grien, Cléo de Mérode, and Leonor Fini

Wonderful episode on Cléo from 5 to 7! I loved your discussion about Varda’s use of mirrors and reflections. It resonates so well with the literary influences of Rilke and Diderot, which I touched on here if you're interested: chunkingbooks.substack.com/p/agnes-varda