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Joshua Taylor, The Dune Sea from Star Wars: The Old Republic, 2011Joshua Taylor, Derelict from Star Wars: The Old Republic, 2011Joshua Taylor, Rock from RAGE, 2011 Joshua Taylor, Rock from Mirror's Edge, 2011 Joshua Taylor, Shadows from Mirror's Edge, 2011 Joshua Taylor, City Streets from Mirror&
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A small but juicy selection of photographs taken by Giovanni Fredi, an Italian photographer fascinated by tech-subcultures, at Blip Festival 2011, which took place in Tokyo on October 2nd and 23rd. You can read the related article (in Italian) on WIRED.it. We've covered Fredi's previous
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Olaf Breuning, Lara, photograph, 1998 Olaf Breuning, Knights, photograph, 2001 Olaf Breuning, born 1970, lives in New York and works in photography, video, installations and performance. Link: Olaf Breuning Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
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Kent Sheely, San Andreas Gamespace Photography, in-game photography, 2007 "Street photography from the fictional city of San Andreas. I abandoned the violent role in which the game’s narrative initially placed me, choosing instead to go out and take some nice photos of the game’s expansive world."
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Kent Sheely, Cityscapes, digital images, 2010 "Distortions of landscapes from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I pushed the limits of the game’s ability to simulate reality until it could no longer maintain its illusion, and the game became an abstraction." (Kent Sheely) related: 15: 24 (series of
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Kent Sheely, DOD, 2011, digital photographs In October 2011, Kent Sheeley updated his seminal series "DOD: A WWII Photo Essay" (2009). A photojournalism project inside a World War II themed game. Once again, the inspiration is Robert Capa, "whose most famous photos of the D-Day invasion were
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Kent Sheely, WWII Redux, 2009 Link: Kent Sheely Related: Kent Sheely's "DOD: A WWII Photo Essay" (2009) Related: Kent Sheely's "Counter-Strike Graffiti Clean-up" (2011) Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Sibylle Fend, No Sleep Before I Die, 2005, Digital print These photographic portraits of gamers were take at a LAN party in Berlin over the course of two nights in 2005 by German photographer Sibylle Fendt. Link: Sibylle Fendt Related: GameFace The Art of Photographing the Player Submitted by Matteo
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"Kinshasa vs Akihabara" is an art project by Italian artist Giovanni Fredi (born 1984, Brescia). During a six-month sojourn spread over the course of two years, Fredi photographed game players from Tokyo, Japan and Kinshasa, Congo. As you may remeber, we interviewed Fredi for WIRED Italia last May.
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Jon Jordan, "Gamer hands leipzig #3. multi-coloured fingernails on the PS3 DualAxis", Digital photograph, 2006 Jon Jordan, "Xbox 360 Hands", Digital photograph, 2006 Jon Jordan, "Tetris world record hands, the hands of James Clewitt, the unofficial world record holder on Tetris arcade (or so he
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Bownik, Training Halls, series of 17 photographs, archival print on dibond, framed box, 92 cm x 110 cm i 54 cm x 66 cm "The project consists of two parts: Gamers and Training Halls. Large-format portraits reflect a typological approach to the new image of a sportsman, whose physical