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Stefan Moses Caimi & Piccinni Tomaso Clavarino
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L e i c a F o t o g r a f i e I n t e r n at i o n a l E n g l i s h E d i t i o n
Julio Bittencourt
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Tomaso Clavarino P r o p h e ts a n d P r o f i ts
Christian fundamentalists in Ghana have successfully been recruiting believers for many years now. Pastors, priests and prophets promise miracles, while piling up the riches at the same time – mostly at the cost of the poorest levels of society.
Pastor Daniel Obinim is one of the country’s best known and most contentious church leaders. But despite numerous controversial activities, he has scores of admirers
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RHome: The u n e x p e ct e d side LeicA M
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Rome is a city of contradictions, highs and lows, splendour and darkness – a place where history and present, culture and ignorance, the ordinary and the remarkable, all come together. It is easy to experience the clichéd postcard-version of Rome without ever touching on the city’s deeper core
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Benjamin Kaufmann Motion Blur
Even the static environment of a studio setting can facilitate dynamic photographs, as Benjamin Kaufmann illustrates on these pages: his series is dedicated to motion blur in its most stunning manifestations.
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Stefan Moses T h e W o r l d i s a S ta g e
This August, Stefan Moses would have turned 90. LFI pays tribute to the extraordinary portraitist, whose unerring and ever surprising observations of his contemporaries shaped the history of photography for more than six decades.
Grand performance with a hint of masquerade: the eccentric art collector Peggy Guggenheim in her adopted home city of Venice, 1969
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Joseph Beuys during his televised performance art piece Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird ßberbewertet (Fettecke), Munich 1968. Masks could take many forms – from large scissors to a simple paper plate. Otto Dix in Hemmenhofen 1964; Saul Steinberg in New York 1962
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Photos: Sebastian Mayer (top), Jhon Bosch (bottom)
From the visual perspective, the panning technique is popular among photographers who want to give their pictures a more attractive and dynamic feel – above and bottom right two examples in colour
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Photos: David Patris (top), Sebastian Mayer (bottom)
In the black and white pictures, the interplay of the panning technique with the content and emotional level – above happiness, below drama – is particularly successful
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Girl Gang I n Pa r i s
“I’m very fascinated by Tokyo’s contemporary architecture. To take this picture, I waited in front of this office complex till it was night-time. It’s only in the darkness that this interesting pattern of coloured doors appears. The people leaving their offices at the time, completed the composition.”
“I’d been walking around the city all day, but hadn’t been able to find any real inspiration. It was on my way back home that I saw these three women. They created a motif that was immediately fascinating. The background, the lively colours and their presence: all of a sudden, everything made sense.”
Vadim Krisyan Leica SL with Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 Asph
Michael Erimo Leica M9 with Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 Asph
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