mrtoledano

LensCulture NEW VISIONS AWARDS — NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES! LensCulture celebrates 20 years of discovering photographic talent! Now, we look to the next two decades, seeking visionary artists who are defining photography’s future. New Visions Offers: • 6 categories encompassing all photographic mediums • More than $20,000 in cash grants and gear • Exposure at 2 exhibitions in London and New York in 2025 • Discovery of the Year Award, honoring one extraordinary New Visions photographer in partnership with @mpbcom We’re looking for artists who blend vision & impact with technical mastery & craft, creating work that speaks to our times and touches eternal human truths. Submit your work and become one of the artists shaping the future of the medium. LensCulture.com/awards Deadline to enter: January 15, 2025 @gleesonpaulino @peytonfulford @iamkamalx @luisadorr @mrtoledano

“Se una foto non è abbastanza buona, significa che non sei abbastanza vicino”, diceva Robert Capa. Vi sembrano ottime le foto di questo post, vero, scattate a distanza ravvicinata? Sbagliato. Le drammatiche ed emozionanti scene belliche del D-Day che state osservando sono false, create con l’Ai. ‌ Per realizzare “We Are At War” (ora pubblicato da @lartiere) Phillip Toledano (@mrtoledano) è tornato “artificialmente” a Omaha Beach e continuato una storia: quella epocale documentata dall’unico reporter al mondo, il 6 giugno 1944, quando l’ungherese sbarcò in Normandia, armato delle sue Contax II, accanto alle truppe americane e sotto il fuoco tedesco. Scattò 106 foto, «ne restarono solo 11, tra cui la più celebre del soldato Usa che avanza nell’acqua fino alla vita», racconta Toledano. ‌ “The Magnificent Eleven”, che uscirono su Life, sopravvissero all’errore di un assistente maldestro che, nella camera oscura della sede londinese del magazine, bruciò quasi tutti i rullini. Una svista del passato che si è rivelata «una grande opportunità per due motivi: primo, perché ha creato un vuoto che io potevo riempire. Secondo, e più importante, perché quel vuoto atteneva al D-Day e a Robert Capa, tanto importanti per il XX secolo da offrire un’occasione perfetta per dimostrare il potere manipolatorio delle immagini». ‌ L’intervista di Carlotta Magnanini (@carlottamag) su @u_repubblica

Tomorrow at 4 pm is our talk with eight @lartiere artists and our final event of the year! Among the artists is Phillip Toledano @mrtoledano who will be speaking about his two books, We Are At War and Another America. Both question the threshold between reality and fiction by exploring the possibilities of AI. We Are At War imagines the contents of one of the lost film rolls Robert Capa shot on D-Day in 1944. “We are at a cultural turning point -our relationship with the image, and the idea of image as truth -has fundamentally changed,” Phillip Toledano says of the work. “What better way to illustrate this than by convincingly reinventing one of the most significant moments of our own near history?” Phillip’s exploration of the topic extends to his book Another America whose AI-generated images are set in 1940s and 1950s New York. This was a time when photographic imagery held a unique sense of veracity, and Phillip’s project transports viewers to a parallel universe where historical events take unexpected turns.

Hello all! I’ll be at Picturehouse, 437 W 16th St 3rd Floor -this Saturday Dec 7th from 4-7pm signing copies of my new books ‘Another America’ and ‘We are at war’-feel free to swing by . . . #lartiere #philliptoledano #weareatwar #anotheramerica

A great article written by @carlottamag in this weekends edition of @larepubblica d magazine on my latest book ‘we are at war’ -Ai generated images reimagining a lost roll of film of famous d day photographer robert capa -if I can so convincingly reinvent the past, imagine what we can do with the present . The book is published by @lartiere . . . #philliptoledano #ww2 #ai

A lovely little interview with me @festivalplanchescontact about ‘we are at war’ on French TV . . . #weareatwar #philliptoledano#ai

Delighted to have my latest book ‘we are at war’ featured in @telegraph selection of books for Christmas . . . #telegraph #thetelegraph #weareatwar #philliptoledano

Some shots of my work at @festivalplanchescontact showing @franciscaines.deauville -so lovely to see both bodies of work together -we are at war, and another America, both exploring the idea of the elasticity of both history and fact in this new ai age . SWIPE👉🏼 . . . #lesfranciscaines #planchescontact

Aaand here’s the second half of the show ‘another America’

A brisk walkthrough of my double exhibition of ‘we are at war’ and ‘another America’ @franciscaines.deauville , part of @festivalplanchescontact -I’ll be doing a talk and book signing this Friday so drop by if you’re in the neighborhood . . . #planchescontact #lesfranciscaines #weareatwar #anotheramerica #philliptoledano

FESTIVAL PLANCHES CONTACT X LES ARTISTES INVITÉS C’est la jolie marque de fabrique du Festival Planches Contact : neuf photographes, plusieurs semaines en résidence, travaillent sur des projets inédits autour du territoire normand. ls ont arpenté, scruté, capturé, révélé ces espaces dont ils vous livrent aujourd’hui leur perception. ⚫Coco Amardeil, «L’abécédaire Normand». Quand une exposition parvient à capter l'intérêt des enfants autant que des adultes, on peut dire qu’elle a toutes les cartes en main pour être un succès. C’est le cas du projet de Coco, qui nous fait découvrir la culture locale normande à travers un abécédaire visuel. ⚫Alessandro Calabrese, «Ways of Looking» / «Hierarchy of Genres», allie collage et manipulation numérique pour réviser de manière personnelle et expérimentale les œuvres. ⚫Sara Imloul, «La mémoire de l’eau et Das Schloss», met en scène un projet introspectif et mystérieux évoquant la mémoire de l’eau et ses souvenirs. ⚫Julien Mignot, «Temps Écran». Soucieux de célébrer le public, il photographie une personne dans l'audience du début à la fin du film. En enregistrant ses mouvements et ses émotions, il vise à capturer la palette d'humeurs que le cinéma peut susciter. ⚫Patricia Morosan, «That Every Stone Is». Un travail délicat et poétique qui met en lumière les falaises des Vaches Noires. ⚫Richard Pak, «Le Voleur d’îles». Une série poétique et originale qui révèle la fascination de l’artiste pour les îles. ⚫Bettina Pittaluga, «In bed with you». Cette artiste nous plonge dans l'intimité profonde du lit à travers une série de portraits. ⚫Phillip Toledano, «We are at war» / «Another America», explore les reinterpretations de l’Histoire à travers de l’intelligence artificielle. ⚫Huang Xiaoliang, «Une fois la folie passée», explore la dualité d’une ville balnéaire comme Deauville pendant la saison touristique, et la solitude qui s’ensuit. 📆 21 octobre 2024 au 5 janvier 2025 📸 1.©Coco Amardeil 2.©Alessandro Calabrese 3.©Sara Imloul 4.©Julien MIgnot 5.©Patricia Morosan 6.©Richard Pak 7.©Bettina Pittaluga 8.©Phillip Toledano 9.©Huang Xiaoliang @festivalplanchescontact

Here’s my new project ‘we are at war’ published by @lartiere -instead of making a normal book, I thought it would be more interesting to continue the lie, and make a lost historical artifact -so when you buy ‘we are at war’ this is what you get: . A box with : . a newspaper from 1944 with the images . A contact sheet, of my imagined lost roll of robert Capa’s film from d-day. . and finally, my artists statement written in a V-mail (v Mail was a free mail service for us servicemen serving overseas in World War Two ) . Link in bio . . #lartiere #weareatwar