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Fantom - Photographic Quarterly
FANTOM with an F, is a new international publication about the uses and abuses of photography. It is about the art of capturing timed effects of light. For practitioners and professionals by professional practitioners, FANTOM enframes its content in sectors: EYE TO EYE where photographers converse; SAMPLE SIZE with ready made discoveries by excellent eyes; BY APPOINTMENT ONLY offered by a collector or about a collection; EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, where gallerists celebrate the time based talents they expose and trade; and MEANS TO AN END surveying the unintentional surprises of purposeful image production, i.e. scientific, commercial, surveillance, documentary and the like. Herein the vernacular can take precedence over the artistic and visa versa depending on the value not of a discourse that comes after the image but allowing pictures to lead the discussions. A voyage into photography, FANTOM will orient readers and viewers in the scaled horizons drawn by photography and those who critique, exhibit, collect, occupy and emulate it. Found, forgotten and not yet discovered, first and foremost FANTOM features the voice of photographers, in interviews, portfolios, and statements alongside the often silent but rarely without a voice medium of Fotography.
Edited by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (New York) and Selva Barni (Milano)
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz is a contemporary art writer, curator, and educator, based mostly in New York and sometimes in Berlin. She became well-known and respected as the Senior Editor of Parkett and Artistic Director of Art Basel. After almost a decade of service to Parsons The New School for Design’s graduate program of photography, she recently moved on to teach in the MFA program at Columbia University. Among the many international exhibitions and programs of contemporary art, she co-curated the 2nd Athen’s Biennale and a number of projects for Art Production Fund Lab in New York. She is cofounder and Editor of Fantom, a quarterly of photography, and In 2011 Ms. Rabinowitz launched together with designer Sofia Sizzi the brand Giulietta, applying her extensive background in art to a fashion context.
Selva Barni was the Photography Editor of Italian monthly Rodeo from 2005-2008. She previously worked as freelance photographer and assisted photographers Ralph Gibson, Robert Polidori and Sally Gall in New York. She studied in Milan and completed her education at MoMA’s Photography Department. She lives in Milano.
In English / Pp. 120 / In color / cm 23 x 28
Fantom is published by Boiler Corporation s.r.l., Milano, Italy.
Sede legale: Piazza Castello 19, 20121 Milano. Sede operativa: Via Lanzone 22, 20123 Milano
Numero REA: MI - 1911897. Capitale sociale: 10.000 euro interamente versati
