Matthieu Nicol (ed.) - Fashion Army yerevan

Matthieu Nicol (ed.) - Fashion Army yerevanSPBH 2024 Fashion Army investigates the evolution of military attire into iconic fashion. French visual researcher Matthieu Nicol presents a catalogue of three hundred and fifty documentary images from the declassified US Army Natick Labs archive, tracing military style from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. These images showcase the meticulous development of clothing and gear designed for both the battlefield and everyday military life, highlighting

Moriyama has continually established his own visual grammar

but that there are firm grounds to walk on wherever one is going

grainy and often blurry style

The culprit was the great alienation with one's own country

the images paint a world interconnected by physical and mythological elements—a dance between the upper and inner worlds of Incan mythology

scarcely seen images

Here the presence of the photographic apparatus becomes clear through an emphasis on linearity that is as casual as it is aesthetic

In Picture Summer on Kodak Film

“Over these last several years

and those that are only a whisper

Format 24 × 32 cm

A rich and layered photographic exploration of the people and places that influenced Raven Jackson’s directorial debut film