Sonja, Christian Schad, 1928
Self-Portrait before an Advertisement Pillar, Georg Scholz, 1926
Gray Day, George Grosz, 1921 All images from the exhibition Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the
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"Three Generations"
by Yom Sang-seop (translated by Yu Young-nan)
Archipelago Books | December 2006 | ISBN 097785762X
Extract from Three Generations
Standing on
Please don't squeeze the bread. Image from Niki Akhavan's photo-essay of signs from Iran. For more images, go to "Sign of the odd times&
Parosh's fifth birthday. Still from Ed Kashi's flip book style photo and music project on Iraqi Kurdistan.
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"Cuba: A New History"
by Richard Gott
Yale | October 2005 | ISBN 0300111142
Prologue
I first travelled to Cuba in October 1963, at a
Storyboard by Goran Ruinović of the film Border Post (Karaula) directed by Rajko Grlić, 2005. Based on Ante Tomic's novel "Nothing Can Suprise Us", Border
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Peralta Stone Maps artist and date unknownTreasure maps discovered in Arizona near the Superstition Mountains, from Katharine Harmon's book "You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps
"Al que Dios se lo dio...[San Pedro se lo bendiga]" (if youve got it...[flaunt it]), 2006, from a new exhibition by Puerto Rican artist Milton
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"Embracing the Infidel: stories of Muslim migrants on the journey west"
by Behzad Yaghmaian
Random House | October 2006 | ISBN 0553382942
Excerpt from Embracing
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"The Body Hunters:
testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients"
by Sonia Shah
The New Press | November 2006 | ISBN 1565849124
Extract
Kar ve Yol (Snowscapes and Roadscapes), Abbas Kiarostami. Photographs and film frames shot in Iran, on display at Akbank Sanat gallery, Istanbul from 8 November-9 December 2006. For more