Dean Rogers - Death Drive. Marc Boland, Helmut Newton, Grace Kelly, Jackson Pollock, Princess Diana, Eddie Cochran, James Dean and Albert Camus all died in a car crash. Photographer Dean Rogers shot these photos on the anniversary of a death, and the exact time and location of the crash.

BLUNT - Dean Rogers - Death Drive / Exhibition

A pointed complement to Robert Frank's The Americans, which closed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in early January, the recently opened Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955, situates the photographers eye and work in a single locale.

Frank traveled the nation in 1955 compiling what would eventually become The Americans. He spent considerable time in Detroit, documenting factories, lunch-counters, and sports stadiums. It was a city of much inspiration.

The Detroit Institute of Art celebrates the Motor City's place in Robert Frank's view of America through this special exhibition. Over 60 images are included, many that have never been seen before. Certainly worth trying to catch if The Americans was to your fancy.

ABOVE: Robert Frank, American (born Switzerland), born 1924 Drive-In Movie, Detroit, 1955 ,
Gelatin silver print Image: 8¼ x 12½ in. (21.0 x 31.8 cm), Founders Society Purchase, Tina and Lee Hills Graphic Arts Fund
DIA No. F78.63. © Robert Frank, from The Americans

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On march 6th, the Kanal Crew is inviting you to spend an irritating night at their studio. NAKED FRAMES will send you out on a perplexing adventure between technology and the catastrophe of habit. Find friends in trees, wind yourself through the debris of urbanity, miss the ever passing exit on the driveway... Photographs by Adrian Grunert, soundscapes by Joris Löschburg.

While most talk about the future of film centers on technology, copyright and piracy, Berlin-based author Stephen Barber looks back at the tradition of the cinematic experience for the moviegoer as a means of previewing future film habits.

For his latest book Abandoned Images (2010), Barber photographed a series of rundown (and many disused) film theaters in Los Angeles, each originally built in the early 20th century. Once majestic palaces where throngs of people would gather to witness the latest spectacle, they now stand as decrepit throwbacks to the (dare we say it) "golden days of cinema", with Barber arguing that perhaps the decay of these buildings is the tangible semiotic of the changes that film has undergone in the digital society, presenting an argument that film must find ways of adapting to survive and safeguard its inherent sense of wonder.

Tonight, Barber will present passages from his book alongside film festival curator Verena von Stackelberg. Reservations are necessary. Send an RSVP to info@dialogueberlin.com.

Driven by the desire to show the passage of time through images that appear alive and moving, Myers' work recalls the process of the human eye, where images are destructed and transformed. Rather than capturing a single frozen moment, Myers scopes out his subject in minute detail, collecting numerous pictures which is later combined into the large-scale panoramas.

Employing the combination of digital photography and computer technology, Myers pursues and pushes the limits of traditional collage with the implementation of modern techniques. If there is initial irritation when viewing the works, it very soon gives way to the urgent desire to dive deeper into the matter.

Join Systm Berlin tonight for a private preview.

The graffiti ''Forget Your Past'' above the entrance of the monument to the Bulgarian Communist Party demonstrates the fate of the communist era monuments in Bulgaria. Situated in towns across the country, and once a symbol of pride, today most of them are neglected and ransacked. No matter if devoted to the Soviet Army, or the struggle against the Ottoman rule, they all share one and the same fate - to be a silent symbol of the forgotten past.

Many of the communist era monuments have been dismantled after the political changes in 1989. Nevertheless, there are still approximately 150 of them remain standing. Many of them are not recognized by the state and remain ownerless. Their exact number is unknown and it is difficult to find information about their authors and history.

The photographic series ''Forget Your Past'' reveals 14 of the most impressive communist era monuments in Bulgaria. The exhibition features 38 photographs displayed in diptychs, together with detailed information about the people who designed the structures and their histories. This project is realised within the frame of "Trace" - a platform that brings together artists and architects to consider the integration of communist monuments into the present day urban environment.

Nikola Mihov was born in 1982 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He works in the field of the photography and video art. Nikola has held solo exhibitions in Sofia, Paris, Zagreb and London and participated in numerous international group exhibitions and film festivals. He received the "Photo School Award" of the 6th international photography biennial "Phodar" in 2009, and the Award for Photojournalism from the Bulgarian Photographic Academy annual contest in 2007. His work has been published in the prestigious French photography magazines PHOTO and Reponses Photo.

The London stop is part of a global tour which has taken in leading photographic institutions in New York, Toronto, Mexico, Paris, Hong Kong, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.

Running until 29 January 2010, the exhibition showcases photographs by the winners and finalists of the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards, spanning a variety of genres including fashion, architecture, advertising, sport and music, from across the world. Included in this striking exhibition will be images from winning UK photographers Edgar Martins, Tamany Baker, Yannick Dixon, Dylan Collard, Dave Watts and Amiran White.

From the 30th of October till the 29th of November WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie will be showing the World Press Photo 09 exhibition. This will comprise around 200 of the best press photographs of 200 which have been awarded prizes in the most prestigious photo-journalist competition in the world.

Since 1955 the board of the World Press Photo Foundation, an independent platform for photo-journalism which has its headquarters in Amsterdam, has invited press photographers and photo-journalists from all over the world to take part in the World Press Photo competition. An international jury, which is changed each year and consists of 13 members, judges the submitted entries that come from photographers, agencies, newspapers and magazines all over the world.

"Die ersten 3 Nummern", is an exhibition of photographies by Florian Wieser and Niko Ostermann taken at concerts over the last few years.
Is there anything better to do on a sunday than looking into those excited sweaty faces, the glowing eyes, the singing smiles? We don't think so.

Newly revamped store No 74 presents the exclusive book launch party for photographer Alexander Gnädigner's "100 Girls on Polaroid," coinciding with day one of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.

British photographer Martin Parr comes down south for an evening to discuss his work.

A seminal photographer working with color, Parr has created a visual vocabulary with which to understand the aesthetics of working class Britons.

OMG. Jean-Yves Lemoigne

Flickr-User Meifembot lädt nichts anderes hoch, als Fotos von jungen Roboter-Damen (die meisten anscheinend von Worth1000). Wir hatten heute erst eine kurze Diskussion im Büro darüber, ob das Sexleben von Robotern nicht eigentlich völliger Unsinn ist. Das ist es natürlich nicht. Sexbots werden früher oder später selbstverständlich Realität und wenn man diese nun mit einer künstlichen Intelligenz versieht, kann ich mir sehr gut vorstellen, dass Roboter in Zukunft auch so etwas wie Befriedigung empfinden. Träumen Roboter von elektrischen Orgasmen? Wie auch immer, ein wunderbarer und auf eine (noch) sehr strange Art sehr sexy Flickr-Stream.

Fotostream von meifembot (via Minds Delight)

Some excellent Flickr goodness. A very inspiring collection of movie end screens.

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The revolution continues - Chinese Artists Group Show are the Saatchi Gallery Chelsea.

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The Revolution Continues

The Saatchi Gallery is now open in the 70,000 sq. ft. Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, Chelsea with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China.

The inaugural exhibition entitled The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art brings together the work of 24 of China's leading artists in a cutting edge survey of recent painting, sculpture and installation.