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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 7h

#FilltheFrame is a new book that celebrates the career of the Australian photographer #AndrewChapman and his documentation of family, the bush, city streets, politics and music in #Australia over the last five decades www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 10h

Picador to publish @emilymandel.bsky.social 's new 'mind-bending epic', #ExitParty. www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad... 📚

mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 11h

From queer relationships and migration to AI and colonial histories, a huge range of artists have spliced together #photography and #archive material to create images that challenge history as we know it www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #collage

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries. Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.” @nysfocus.bksy.social nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

A selection of winning images & finalists as the Association of Photographers reveals the winners of its 40th annual awards across 10 subject categories, with additional awards @assocphoto.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

Two years of #displacement and #destruction in #Gaza – photo essay. #EnasTantesh’s #photography captures not only the despair and insecurity but also moments of normality and human connection www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... 🇵🇸

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

The 100-year-old books salvaged from Venice's floods. A full Moon, strong winds and a vicious cyclone combined to hit #Venice with its second-worst #flood in history in 2019. Today, books saved from the water tell a story of loss and resistance. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

'Lee Miller was the bravest person I ever knew': The pioneering photographer who captured the horror of World War Two. The unflinching, surreal gaze of the US artist and war photographer #LeeMiller bore witness to both beauty and brutality. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

Winners and Finalists of the 2025 #LensCulture #StreetPhotography Awards www.lensculture.com/es/photo-com... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

#HamburgerEyes Celebrates 25 Years of #BlackandWhite #Photography www.lensculture.com/articles/ham...

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

Searching for the Same Light. In her third big documentary project, Barbara Peacock continues her exploration of intimacy, family, and community—this time through the daily routines of local farmers and their children in Maine. www.lensculture.com/articles/bar... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How #children’s #authors are being #canceled over #Palestine. Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 1d

Five Irish citizens among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla. Author #NaoiseDolan and Independent TD Barry Heneghan among those on board boat captured in Mediterranean www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 2d

#Nobelprize in #literature 2025: #LászlóKrasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’. Nobel academy cites Hungarian novelist for work that ‘in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’ www.theguardian.com/books/live/2... 📚

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 2d

‘Somerset saved my sanity’: #DonMcCullin spent decades photographing war & carnage across the globe – then he retrained his lens on the #Somerset countryside. As he turns 90, a new book celebrates his gorgeous still lifes and landscapes www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 2d

‘Somerset saved my sanity’: #DonMcCullin spent decades photographing war & carnage across the globe – then he retrained his lens on the #Somerset countryside. As he turns 90, a new book celebrates his gorgeous still lifes and landscapes www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 2d

‘Belinda wanted to be Miss Drag Queen Africa. Part of the competition involved visiting places where violence had happened. “If we don’t reclaim them,” she said, “it’s like we don’t exist”’. #LeeAnnOlwage’s best photograph www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 3d

Monroe, Bardot … and a naughty elephant: iconic portraits. From an eye-opening shot of David Byrne to footballers from a bygone era, a new exhibition at Yorkton Studios, focuses on #portraits taken #before the digital age www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 3d

Monroe, Bardot … and a naughty elephant: iconic portraits. From an eye-opening shot of David Byrne to footballers from a bygone era, a new exhibition at Yorkton Studios, focuses on #portraits taken #before the digital age www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 3d

‘Photos don’t go bigger than mine’: the epic, impossible images of the great #AndreasGursky. From Amazon warehouses to Olympic skiers and the crowd at a Madonna gig, his pictures have made him one of the world’s most feted photographers www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 5d

#Reuters has published more than 14 million photographs over the past four decades, a new book, #IntheMoment, looks back over 40 years of #photojournalism www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography #journalism

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 5d

Inside #China’s New Wave of Conceptually #Innovative #Bookstores. Jean-Yves Mollier and Patricia Sorel Explore Some of the Country’s Most Fascinating Reading Spaces. lithub.com/inside-china...

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 4d

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist. Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe.
By Philip Oltermann www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 4d

2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

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mixdevil66.bsky.social @mixdevil66.bsky.social · 4d

2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

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