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#Michael_Wolf: The man who found beauty in megacities - BBC News
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Hong Kong’s imposing, densely-packed tower blocks have long been a symbol of its housing crisis, which has seen tens of thousands of families in the region crammed into tiny homes.

But photographer Michael Wolf managed to find moments of beauty in the buildings that populated his adoptive home - without shying away from the harsh realities of life for the people inside.

Wolf died in Hong Kong on 24 April, at the age of 64.

He was best known for his 11-year project Architecture of Density, for which he took photos of Hong Kong’s residential blocks and cropped them so tightly that they felt even more compact.

#photographie #hongkong

Khamenei se fait prendre en photo en train de lire la traduction iranienne de « Fire and Fury » de Michael Wolff-
▻https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irans-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-photo-reading-fire-and-fury-mic

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Michael Wolff, la plume dans la plaie Trump - Libération
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James Mattis Is an Ancient Roman Action Hero – Foreign Policy
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/27/james-mattis-is-an-ancient-roman-action-hero

Since the 2016 election, comparisons between the United States and ancient Rome abound, motivated as much by President Donald Trump-Emperor Nero analogies as anything. Commentators have dwelled on the traits of theatricality, brutality, solipsism, narcissism, cruelty, and cowardice these men seem to share.

There’s a problem, however, with these comparisons: their source material. Most have turned to the work of Suetonius as their Nero-knowledge arsenal. Author of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius was antiquity’s Michael Wolff: a gossipy and glib chronicler of fear and loathing in imperial Rome. His account of Caligula planning to make a horse one of his consuls and Nero singing while Rome burned makes for sensational and spellbinding reading, just as does Wolff’s portrait of Trump eating cheeseburgers in bed and warning the maid not to touch his toothbrush in his book Fire and Fury. Whether they are actually true is another, less promising, matter.
[…]
In contrast, Tacitus would find a different and more effective fighter in the person of Secretary of Defense Mattis. By now, many of us know that the retired general kept a copy of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations by his side during his tour of duty in Iraq. But since joining the Trump administration, Mattis seems to have plucked an edition of Tacitus’s works from his sizable personal library. Like Agricola, he embodies an ethos of service — one that is civic as well as military — which the United States desperately needs.

#Néron #Suétone #La_Vie_des_Douze_Césars
#Marc_Aurèle #Pensées_pour_Moi-même

With Bannon banished from Trump World, pro-Israel hard-liners pin their hopes on Pence

Far-right U.S. Jewish Republicans believed the one-time Breitbart supremo had their back, but his fall from grace shifts their focus to the vice president and a very unlikely blast from the recent past

Allison Kaplan Sommer Jan 16, 2018

Few American Jews shed tears at the downfall of Steve Bannon, whose humiliation was made complete Tuesday when he stepped down from Breitbart News following his ugly estrangement from President Donald Trump – confirmed by the insulting new nickname of Sloppy Steve.
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The catalyst for his fate were his uncensored remarks in Michael Wolffs White House tell-all book, Fire and Fury, alienating Trump and then, fatally, the Mercers (Bannons arch-conservative financial backers who bankrolled both Breitbart and his endeavors to become a renegade Republican kingmaker.)
The vast majority of Americas overwhelmingly liberal and Democratic Jews viewed Bannon as either an anti-Semite or an anti-Semite enabler whose conspiratorial references to demonic global financiers awakened and emboldened white supremacists. His oft-quoted description of Breitbart as the platform for the alt-right white nationalist movement confirmed such views.
But for the minority of staunchly hard-line, pro-Israel Jews (and evangelical Christians) who support Israels settlement enterprise, oppose a Palestinian state and any form of territorial compromise, Bannon was an important force in the White House.
For this group, his out-of-the-box positions on Israel far outweighed any threats the views of the Trump-voting, alt-right fan base from which he drew his influence might pose.
Notably, it was Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America – who invited Bannon to address his organizations annual gala last November – who was the sole loyalist quoted as willing to speak up for Bannon in a lengthy Politico piece on Sunday. Klein said: If there is anyone, like Bannon, who is a strong supporter of Israel and a strong fighter against anti-Semitism and that person ends up having less influence on the administration, that is something that would sadden me.

In Fire and Fury, the extent to which Bannons position on Israel matched hard-liners like Klein was described in detail. The book not only revealed that Trumps then-strategic adviser planned to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Day One after entering the White House, but, moreover, had an extreme and highly unorthodox approach to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Let Jordan take the West Bank, let Egypt take Gaza, says Bannon in the book. Let them deal with it. Or sink trying.
He then claimed that both GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were all in on his plans.
Taken as a whole, it is a depiction of an extreme right-wing cabal, one that could find its place on the right fringes of Likud, that has been guiding if not running [President Donald] Trumps Middle East policies, Haaretzs Chemi Shalev wrote. Shalev described it as an axis that dominated Trumps Middle East policies during his first year in office. It is an alliance that Netanyahu appears to have cultivated, with the assistance, or at the direction, of his Las Vegas benefactor, Adelson. All three operate under the premise ascribed to Bannon that the further right you were, the more correct you were on Israel.
This hard-line trio of influence presumably acted as a counterweight against the more pragmatic former military men in the White House – most prominently National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, but also former Secretary of Homeland Security and current Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis – whom, along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the far right privately scorn as Arabists who are soft on Israel. It was also a bulwark against Trumps fantasies of making the ultimate deal, which they believed were being cultivated by Bannons nemesis – Trumps son-in-law and aide, Jared Kushner.
Bannons banishment from the White House, and now his political self-immolation and disappearance from Trumps circle of influence, comes as a deep disappointment to those who embraced and celebrated his outlook and that of satellite foreign policy Bannonites like Sebastian Gorka.
Sad, tragic and disappointing, one pro-Trump Republican on the Jewish far right told me, asking not to be identified by name. Israels lost a really important voice.
With that sadness comes concern over the increased influence of the generals, as well as Javanka (Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump), on Middle East policy. The Jewish Trump supporter said he believes the presidents son-in-law has got his head in a very dark place when it comes to this peace thing. I think Jared is really wrong on this whole peace plan and can only do damage, he noted.
But the hard-liners are still hopeful, attributing their optimism that the Trump administration will avoid any Kushner-fueled peace attempts to three factors.
First, and most prominently, their hopes are pinned on Vice President Mike Pence – who will visit Israel on January 22-23 – and the evangelical Christian base he represents. Rejecting the portrayal of a sidelined Pence in Wolffs book, they call him a powerful player, particularly on Israel.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, January 9, 2018. JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS
Clear evidence for this, they argue, lies in the fact that last months declaration of recognizing Jerusalem as Israels capital and the plan for an embassy move came after Bannon left the White House. It was Pence and the evangelicals – not Adelson, Netanyahu and Bannon – who ultimately got something done, and they are the ones who will have Israels back in the post-Bannon era.
Secondly, there are the Palestinians themselves, who called the Jerusalem declaration a kiss of death to the two-state solution.
Third, there is Trump himself. Much as the president is portrayed as an utterly transactional empty vessel, his Jewish supporters dont believe his views were artificially foisted on him by Bannon, but instead come from his own core beliefs. It was the president himself who wanted to move the embassy at the very beginning of his administration, they say, and it was Netanyahu himself who told Trump it would be better to wait.
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Return of the Mooch?
If there is now a vacuum in the conduit between the far-right Klein/Adelson crowd and the Trump White House, one figure is clearly eager to fill it. Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is not only different from Bannon – as slick and public as Bannon is unkempt and secretive – but he is also Bannons nemesis.

In this July 2017 file photo, Anthony Scaramucci blows a kiss after answering questions during the press briefing.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Call it a coincidence, but on the same day Bannon departed from Breitbart, it was also announced that Scaramucci – who spent the day dancing on his grave – would be a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. The RJC confab is set for early February at Adelsons Venetian hotel and casino. In the past, ZOAs Klein has described Scaramucci as being supportive of Israel in the ZOA way, not in the mainstream Jewish way.
Scaramucci has made a point of cozying up to the Adelson-backed Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. It was at a Boteach Hanukkah party that Scaramucci reportedly took a verbal detour from recounting his trip to Israel to insult Bannon, allegedly calling the former Trump aide messianic and a loser, warning that Hell be a stalwart defender of Israel until hes not. Thats how this guy operates. Ive seen this guy operate. He was a stalwart defender of me until it became better for him not to be.
In the end, it was not his failure to defend Israel that proved to be Bannons undoing. It was his failure to defend Donald Trump.

Allison Kaplan Sommer
Haaretz Correspondent

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Trump et le Moyen-Orient : ce que nous apprend le livre de Michael Wolff
Middle East Eye | Areeb Ullah et Dania Akkad | 7 janvier 2018
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/reportages/comment-trump-voit-le-moyen-orient-ce-que-nous-apprend-le-livre-de-mi

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L’attaque de missiles contre la Syrie, les luttes internes sur le processus de paix ou encore les dessous de la fête organisée à Riyad : le livre de Michael Wolff en dit long sur Trump et le Moyen-Orient

WikiLeaks deleted a tweet linking to the full ’Fire & Fury’ text - Business Insider
▻http://uk.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-deleted-tweet-fire-and-fury-text-trump-russia-2018-1?r
Des fois que vous auriez manqué de télécharger le livre voici une source pour en trouver une copie.

The radical pro-transparency group WikiLeaks posted, and then quickly deleted, a tweet linking to the full text of “Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House” on Sunday.

Later on Sunday, WikiLeaks reposted the link to what it said was the “full text” of the book.

“Fire & Fury,” by author Michael Wolff, paints President Donald Trump and his administration in an unflattering light and features several explosive quotes from the former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon.

Among other things, Bannon called Trump’s daughter Ivanka “dumb as a brick,” and he also said Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”

After Trump and his allies went on a scorched-earth offensive against Bannon, Wolff, and the book, Bannon issued a lengthy apology on Sunday, walking back many of his comments and reaffirming his “unwavering” support for Trump.

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#USA #politique #Trump

« Il semblait avoir vu un fantôme » : la nuit d’horreur de Donald Trump après son élection
▻https://www.crashdebug.fr/international/14383-il-semblait-avoir-vu-un-fantome-la-nuit-d-horreur-de-donald-trump-a

USA :...Trump ne voulait pas de la présidence + "il semblait avoir vu un fantôme "

= il doit obéir aux sociétés secretes auxquelles il a fait allégeance donc elles décideront de son sort comme Macron CQFD

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Donald Trump embrasse sa femme Melania, à New York (Etats-Unis), le soir de sa victoire électorale, dans la nuit

du 8 au 9 novembre 2016. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Le livre du journaliste Michael Wolff révèle que Donald Trump ne souhaitait pas devenir président et a vécu comme un choc la nuit de sa victoire électorale.

Donald Trump ne souhaitait pas gagner. C’est du moins ce que révèlent des extraits du livre Fire and Fury : Inside The Trump White House (Le Feu et la fureur : A l’intérieur de la Maison Blanche de Trump), signé Michael Wolff, journaliste au (...)

#En_vedette #Actualités_internationales #Actualités_Internationales

Enough About Steve Bannon. Rupert Murdoch’s Influence on Donald Trump Is More Dangerous | Peter Maass
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/01/06/rupert-murdoch-trump-fire-and-fury-steve-bannon

Michael Wolff’s new book shows how Murdoch, the founder of Fox News, is a close adviser to Trump. This is a problem. Source: The Intercept

Michael Wolff defends book and says of Trump: ’To quote Steve Bannon: He’s lost it’ by David Smith for The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/05/michael-wolff-trump-steve-bannon-book-fire-and-fury

The author of an explosive new book about Donald Trump’s first year in office said he stands by his reporting and the president’s threat of legal action is only boosting his sales .

Trump on Saudi Leadership Shake-up: “We’ve Put Our Man on Top!”
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/01/04/trump-saudi-arabia-fire-and-fury-michael-wolff

When Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman effectively launched a coup and unseated his political rival in June, President Donald Trump took private credit. “We’ve put our man on top!” Trump told his friends, writes Michael Wolff in his forthcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman had ousted his nephew Mohammad bin Nayef as crown prince and replaced him with his then-31-year-old son, bin Salman, shaking up the line of succession and turning on decades of custom within the royal family. The move was announced in the dead of night and was just another step in bin Salman’s rise to power in the kingdom in recent years. The king also removed bin Nayef, once a powerful figure in the country’s security apparatus, from his post as interior minister.

Just a month earlier, Trump had visited Saudi Arabia on his first overseas trip, meeting with leaders from across the Middle East and signing a $110 billion aspirational arms deal with the kingdom’s leaders. When bin Salman was named crown prince, Trump called and congratulated him on his “recent elevation.”

Wolff describes Trump’s Saudi trip as a “get-out-of-Dodge godsend,” as it was an escape from Washington shortly after the president fired FBI Director James Comey. “There couldn’t have been a better time to be making headlines far from Washington. A road trip could transform everything.”

The book is based on 18 months of interviews and access to Trump and his senior staff. But Wolff has a history of being an unreliable narrator, and questions have already been raised about the veracity of his claims. Trump, for his part, is outraged by the book, which contains damning passages about him and his family, attributed to the president’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon. The president’s lawyer has demanded that Wolff and his publisher cease and desist publication of the book.

#arabie_saoudite

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Petit déjeuner expédié
Toilette expédiée
Sarah et moi sur la route

Je reproduis un de mes anciens rituels
Qui en rejoint un autre, qui en rejoint
Un autre encore, fin de la photographie

Arrivée sans encombre
Mais déjà une chaleur étouffante
Je passe devant le heurtoir de Jérôme

Quelques noms familiers
Sur le programme, le reste
Ce sera de la découverte

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Armand Questsch
Magnifique travail spatialisé
Je me dis : ça commence fort

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L’exposition des 66 photographes iraniens
Aurait pu me faire fuir, je n’aime pas qu’on regroupe
Les photographes par nationalité, exposition passionnante

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Fukase
N’a pas le talent
D’Araki

Quelques photos
De corbeaux
Sortent du lot

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Dune Varela
Produit un travail très pertinent, mais
Il faut rester sourd à son commentaire

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Dans les photos d’Ackerman et Gobert
Toute l’ambivalence du symbole de Lénine
Si c’était si simple…

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Dans l’exposition des pulsions urbaines
Je retiens une très belle photographie
De Pablo Larain, mais c’est bien tout

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Marie Bovo
A beaucoup de talent et
Elle est très forte en profondeur de champ

Au musée Réattu, comme souvent
Pas un regard pour les photos
Mais je photographie le coude du Rhône

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Samuel Grattacap
Se met beaucoup trop en scène
Ce qui est coupable en regard de son sujet

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Au Méjean
Revoir des œuvres
D’Oscar Muñoz !

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Force de la démonstration
De Michael Wolff
Nos villes sont inhabitables

Je croise une connaissance, j’ai le sentiment
Que nous nous connaissons, moi de même
Thomas Delthombe !

On attaque les ateliers
Par la face Nord
Sous la canicule

Il faut payer pour voir Annie Leibovitch (LUMA)
Je propose à Sarah de lui payer l’entrée à elle
Non, c’est une question de principe !

Elle feuillette le catalogue
En plus c’est nul
Ce qu’elle fait cette photographe !

Assez fort
Pour que d’autres entendent
Bon sang ne saurait mentir

Une vidéo passe en boucle
Des extraits de violences policières racistes
Et des archives de Noirs célèbres. Sarah : « c’est nul ! »

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La grande table lumineuse
De Fischli & Weiss
Me laisse de marbre

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Le chien
Et les étoiles
De Juliette Agnel !

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Une image de Mari Bastashevski
M’arrête, moins les autres
Que je trouve plus convenues

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Deux très belles séries de photographies
A propos de Fukushima, Ayesta et Bression
Et Brodbeck & de Barbuat

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Cette magnification par l’image
Est presque coupable
En fait elle est vénéneuse

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Revoir la DATAR,
Revoir Tom Drahos
Revoir Jean-Louis Garnel

Je ne sais pas si on peut
Ecrire une critique d’exposition
En haïkus, je vais le faire quand même

Un jour, peut-être, en Arles
On se prendra par la main
Pour penser un plan clair

Combien faut-il
De grands commissaires (internationaux)
Pour changer les (dix) ampoules grillées ?

Qui peut encore être ému
De jeux d’ombres sur des murs
En noir et blanc ? Oui, qui ?

Un jour, comprendre que les visiteurs ont des oreilles
Et souffrent d’entendre le son d’une médiocre vidéo,
Tout en admirant Oscar Nunoz, silencieux, lui

L’éclatement des lieux d’exposition
Allant jusqu’à Toulon n’est pas abordable
Pour les visiteurs moins fortunés. Peigne-culs !

Le début d’emprise de la fondation LUNA
Sur les Rencontres est immédiatement visible
Surtaxe des expositions. Peigne-culs !

Les choix de Sam Stourzné
Sont incompréhensibles
Ce ne sont pas des choix

Et c’est l’heure de poser
Ma belle Sarah, pas très fraîche
Quelle chaleur, à la gare

Ces départs de la gare d’Arles
Sont un excellent entraînement
Pour des séparations plus longues, plus tard

Je retrouve B.
En bord de Rhône
Toujours souriante

Nous dînons
De seiches à la plancha
Qui ne valent pas celles de l’Escala

Longues conversations
En bonne intelligence et bienveillance
Dans une lumière admirable, orange

Promenade digestive
Et digressive
Sur les quais du Rhône

C’est la plus belle journée
Des vacances
La dernière aussi

C’est la plus belle soirée
Des vacances
Et oui, la dernière

Nous sommes chassés
Par des moustiques en piqué
Depuis les platanes alentour

Je conduis assoiffé
Et les pieds en capilotade
J’ai quitté Sarah, j’ai quitté B.

Il faisait 32°C à 22H en Arles
Il faisait 36° C à Nîmes à 22H30
Il fait 20°C à minuit au Bouchet

Un clair de lune magnifique
Sur la vallée de la Cèze
Me fait des adieux douloureux

Je cherche
Et je cherche encore
Le sommeil

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#mon_oiseau_bleu

#Arte, un soupçon de censure
▻http://lemonde.fr/televisions-radio/article/2017/06/03/arte-un-soupcon-de-censure_5138244_1655027.html

Arte, qui fêtait le 30 mai ses vingt-cinq ans d’existence, se serait bien passée d’une telle polémique. C’est un film intitulé Auserwählt und Ausgegrenzt. Der Hass auf Juden in Europa (« Un peuple élu et mis à part : l’antisémitisme en Europe »), réalisé par les documentaristes allemands Joachim Schroeder et Sophie Hafner, qui a mis le feu aux poudres. La décision, prise le 26 avril par le directeur des programmes d’Arte, Alain Le Diberder, de ne pas diffuser ce documentaire de 90 minutes, produit et financé par la chaîne, a provoqué des remous outre-Rhin. Des historiens allemands, comme Götz Aly ou Michael Wolffsohn, sont intervenus dans les médias pour prendre sa défense, dénonçant « la censure » exercée par la chaîne franco-allemande.

Le réalisateur Joachim Schroeder entendait explorer les différentes facettes de l’antisémitisme en Allemagne et en France : aussi bien l’antisémitisme d’extrême droite que celui des fondamentalistes musulmans dans les banlieues. Porté par la chaîne publique Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR), l’une des onze stations allemandes à alimenter Arte Deutschland, ce projet de documentaire a fait l’objet de nombreuses discussions avant d’être validé par la conférence des programmes d’Arte, en avril 2015.

Hong Kong, une esthétique de la verticalité – Geographica

▻http://geographica.net/2016/04/hong-kong-une-esthetique-de-la-verticalite

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Michael Wolf a décidé de photographier une ville bien particulière, Hong Kong, qui concentre environ 7 millions d’habitants sur 1104km². Cela donne une densité de 6405 hab.km², une des plus élevées au monde.

il s’agit en fait d’une densité urbaine, bien sûr, car Hong Kong est presque entièrement bâtie.

#hong-kong #urban_matter #verticalité #architecture
cc @cdb_77

L’artialisation du paysage urbain : Hong Kong et ses gratte-ciels
▻http://www.scoop.it/t/identites-de-l-empire-du-milieu/p/4000693942/l-artialisation-du-paysage-urbain-hong-kong-et-ses-gratte-ciels

En tournant son appareil vers le ciel, le photographe et artiste français Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze a capturé des perspectives qui donnent le vertige, soulignant d’autant plus le motif géométrique des plus beaux gratte-ciels de la ville et qu’il décrit comme une « course vers le ciel » dans sa collection de photos « Vertical Horizon ». 
« C’est facile de prendre la mesure d’un immeuble de loin, mais on ne peut vraiment apprécier sa structure immense tant qu’on ne tend pas le cou le long de sa colonne vertébrale, pour admirer la façon dont ses bords ont l’air d’égratigner le ciel » dit le photographe. « Le projet est une immersion dans l’atmosphère étouffante de la ville et un enregistrement visuel de ses constructions sauvages. Le livre est comme un plongeon contemplatif dans la nature brute de Hong Kong et une expression de son élan vertical »
Après un Master en art et multimédia à Paris, Jacquet-Lagrèze a photographié Los Angeles, Tokyo et maintenant Hong Kong. Jacquet-Lagrèze affirme que c’est la géométrie de l’environnement urbain et les vies qu’il abrite qui ne cessent de l’inspirer"
 
De la même manière que l’artiste allemand Michaël Wolfe ("Architecture of Density", voir l’article sur le scoopit) avait travaillé sur Hong Kong, de la même façon Jacquet-Lagrèze entend faire de la ville un sujet d’art. N’assisterait-t-on pas à une artialisation de la métropole, telle que le philosphe Alain Roger l’avait mise en avant dans « L’invention du Paysage » ? Alain Roger montre ainsi que la perception d’un paysage est une construction culturelle, offerte à la perception d’un indivdu, qu’elle soit visuelle, auditive ou autre. La médiation de l’art a de fait une importance primordiale : il change notre regard, façonne nos perceptions, substitue à nos anciennes représentations des images nouvelles. 
On peut noter une certaine différence entre les travaux, les photos de Michaël Wolfe tendant plus à une critique de l’uniformisation et de l’entassement de ses constructions et des habitants.

• MICHAEL WOLF architecture of density scout shots
▻http://photomichaelwolf.com/#architecture-of-density-scout-shots/1

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Photo : The real toy story, par Michael Wolf - Konbini - France
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The Real Toy Story, un sujet brûlant qu’a choisi de nous narrer le photographe allemand Michael Wolf. Une actualité complexe sur laquelle on préfère souvent fermer les yeux : l’envers de la mondialisation.

#jouets #madeinchina #Chine #mondialisation #photo

Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech
►http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment to The Tech. Swartz was 26.

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The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0 specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA.”

The Real Toy Story (Michael Wolf Photography)
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The Real Toy Story installation Source: Michael Wolf Photography

The real toy story (Michael Wolf)
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