Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)
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Esther Hunziker
Artist
Esther Hunziker is an artist, media designer and lecturer on digital media at the Art Institute in Basel. Before studying art, she learned the trade of dressmaking and studied fashion design. Afterwards, she established her own fashion brand, worked as a screen designer, experimented with analog video-editing technology and created her first interactive narrative forms in the digital network.
The area of her work includes video, internet, interactive animations and picture series. Most of her work is based on deconstruction and montage, mixing fragments of the real and the illusory world.
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