Photographers:
Connections:

Text and calligraphy


 
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Where the word meets the image. Explore the fusion of calligraphy and photography, from early annotated travelogues to contemporary conceptual art where text defines the frame.

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Contents

Examples
1Text and calligraphy: Examples
Epigraphy
2Epigraphy - Squeezes of inscriptions
Photographers
3Barbara Kruger: Your body is a battleground
4Jeffrey Wolin: Written In Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust (1992-1994)
5Marcelo Brodsky: Buena Memoria / Good Memory (1996)
6Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
7Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah
8Bieke Depoorter: As it may be (2017)
Politcs and the message
9The relationships between photographs and text

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