Cay Sophie Rabinowitz

Bev Grant (born 1942 in Portland, Oregon) is an American folk singer, feminist, political activist, as well as a photographer and documentary filmmaker. "When I sat in on a workshop given by Students for a Democratic Society at Princeton University in 1967, I had no idea of the impact it would have on the rest of my life. The workshop topic was women's liberation. It was an awakening, a dawn of consciousness that gave me a framework to understand my life and a path that I continue to follow." (Grant).

Bev Grant: Photography 1968-1972

Iván Navarro is known internationally for his sociopolitically charged sculptures of neon and fluorescent light. The sculptures and installations of Iván Navarro grow out of the legacy of minimalism and modern design, but they subvert the cool detachment of their forms with pointed sociopolitical critique. Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1972, Navarro grew up under Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship. In order to better understand this dark history, Navarro uses light—a symbol of hope and truth—as his medium, constructing chairs, ladders, doors, and even shopping carts out of neon and fluorescent lights. With their ambient glow and live current, the works are equally seductive and unnerving. In this first monograph on the artist, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz considers the personal stories underlying Navarro’s sleek, industrially produced works. In conversation with Hilarie M. Sheets, Navarro discusses his relationship to modernism, minimalism, and language.

Ivan Navarro

Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010) was born and raised in Berlin and first worked as a secretary for Das Magazin. In the mid 1960s, Bergemann met photographer Arno Fischer, whom she married in 1985. Together they nurtured mutual interests in art and culture and gathered in their home/studio a community of visionaries: writers, directors, performers, painters, designers and photographers. In the early 1970s, Bergemann began to photograph for the East German women's magazine Sibylle. In 1990, she cofounded the Ostkreuz agency, which now represents a score of photographers. This is the first English-language monograph on Bergemann's work from the 1970s and 80s. With contributions from outstanding international journalists (Regine Sylverster) and editors (Richard Buckley and Melissa Drier) to curators (Drew Sawyer) and art historians (Sarah Goodrum), the hardcover is a comprehensive collectible on the fascinating East German photographer.

Fashion Photographer in East Berlin

Sibylle Bergemann

Jörg Heiser

Mathilde ter Heijne

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OSMOS Magazine issue 21 features an essay about the rare series of pen and ink drawings Fumio Yoshimura did for a legal defense fund raiser he and Kate Millet organized when Peggy Dobbins was arrested at the1968 Miss America pageant protest. The reportage is by Chris Jordan. There is a portfolio of recent paintings by Berlin based Erik Schmidt. Drew Sawyer writes on Oren Pinhassi and the cover features a detail from Camel Collective's 2018 exhibition entitled Grip.

Cay Sophie Rabinowitz

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