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ANALYSIS
The Photograph Loses Its Status as Witness

The camera becomes a co-author of the image rather than its witness
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Dark macro image of a smartphone camera module on a circuit board, with a night street scene reflected inside the lens.

Artificial intelligence is changing photography at the very moment of capture. The photograph still appears to function as evidence, even though parts of its visibility may already be technically...

Commentary
The emptiness after the glamour

Olivier Rousteing and Balmain part ways
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Symbolic image: Black mannequin with a golden dress against a gray background

He was the orphan who invented himself. For fourteen years, Olivier Rousteing turned the house of Balmain into a pop spectacle – a time between genius, hubris, and digital self-worship. Now an era...

Commentary
The Pose of Enlightenment

How Moral Awareness Became Aesthetics — and Why Wokeness Lost Its Depth
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Minimalist photograph of bright blue water with a single yellow rubber duck floating near the lower right — a calm yet ironic reflection on surface and meaning.

Wokeness was once an awakening; today it serves as a backdrop. The line between moral gesture and aesthetic reflex, between attitude and staging, has almost vanished. What remains when awareness...

BOOKS
On NFTs – Art in Digital Transformation

The compendium of NFT art is available as a standard edition.
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Cover of On NFTs by Robert Alice, TASCHEN Standard Edition

NFTs have long since become more than digital collectibles—they are a symptom of our time. „On NFTs” asks what happens when art, technology, and the market begin to speak the same language—and what...

Commentary
From Mannequins to Avatars

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How Algorithms Are Replacing Humans in the Fashion Industry
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Symbolic image for the change in the fashion industry: a server room as a metaphor for the replacement of real models by algorithms.

From the mannequins of the 1950s to the supermodels of the 1990s: fashion constantly reinvented its icons. Today their names are Shudu, Imma, and Lil Miquela – avatars instead of humans.

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