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Yosuke Yamahata

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/related/journeyMaterials.html The haunting photographs of Yosuke Yamahata taken the day after the atom bomb had dropped. This virtual exhibition forms part of the digital library of the Exploratorium, an educational on-line interactive museum of the arts, sciences and humanities.

Old Links from my first web site "Shadow Land"

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I started this site in 1997, when I look at the design, I realise how far the web has come in 13 years. Most of the links still work and are quite interesting. Site Description Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk, Amsterdam, is one of the worlds top museums for contemporary art. It holds a significant collection of photographs, and is host to many of the best touring exhibitions. The recent August Sander exhibition is a case in point, and the Web Site has some useful background information on Sander, if few images. Fotomuseum The excellent Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland. A very thoroughly presented web site with a few great images and plenty of contextual information. The text, however, is in German. George Eastman House; International Museum of Photography and Film A really good site - Biographical details

David Hockney's instant iPad art

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For the video click below http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162 By Colin Grant Producer, Digital Planet Advertisement Artist David Hockney speaks to BBC Click about creating digital artwork for an exhibition in Paris "Who wouldn't want one? Picasso or Van Gogh would have snapped one up," the artist David Hockney tells me at the opening of his latest show in Paris called Fleurs Fraiches, or Fresh Flowers. The boyish grand old man of pop art with silver hair and lambent eyes is well known for his recent conversion to the iPhone and iPad for his work. You can make a drawing of the sunrise at 6am and send it out to people by 7am David Hockney Now, several of the tablet computers have been turned into technological canvases to display his latest work at an