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Own relying more on photo archives. there are so many pictures on instagram because people want to capture the present. thats why theyre constantly snapping away. the catch is that once they take a picture theyre actually looking back at the past forgotten so they have to take another one. next. now works on old pictures that resonate into the present of a photographer who isnt taking photos at present and who has long regarded his own life and work with a sense of right detachment a case in poi...

A human face you name need never thought of it before but the context in which you see that face will have a great effect on how you perceive and even maybe accept it and this is just one example of how our visual perception can be manipulated and thats one of many that german photographer thomas hoff has delighted in exploring well now the descent of artist is the subject of a major retrospective in london. thomas offs breakthrough came with first as a fellow art school students displayed like ...

After studying at the disorder of arts academy thomas started with architectural photography but soon moved on to making portraits retouching images and creating montage is. explored unusual cameras too and used them to play with notions of authorship and reception. he borrowed equipment police used in the one nine hundred ninety s. to make facial composites of suspects to blur the line between portrait and mug shot in his own work. in response to the media coverage of the first gulf war got a s...