Tuomo Manninen, Workers--Vash Avtomobil (Your Car), 2001.Tuomo Manninen has been taking portraits of social and professional groups in various international capitals (Kathmandu, Riga, Helsinki) since 1995. His current location is Saint Petersburg--the erstwhile Russian seat--where he shot these auto repairmen in late August. The gas mask gas mask, face covering or device used to protect the wearer from injurious gases and other noxious materials by filtering and purifying inhaled air. In addition to military use (see chemical warfare), gas masks are employed in mining, in industrial chemistry, and by , the Finnish photographer notes was "probably nixed from the Army." TUOMO MANNINEN is a photographer based in Helsinki. For the past six years he has been taking group portraits of members of various local organizations in capitals around the world--Kathmandu, Helsinki, Riga, and most recently the former Russian capital of Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, city, United States Saint Petersburg, city (1990 pop. 238,629), Pinellas co., W Fla., on Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico at the southern end of the Pinellas peninsula; settled in the mid-1800s, inc. 1892. ; twenty-two of these group shots were included in Harald Szeemann's "Plateau of Humankind" at the 49th Venice Biennale Venice Biennale International art exhibition held in the Castello district of Venice every two years and juried by an international committee. It was founded in 1895 as the International Exhibition of Art of the City of Venice to promote “the most noble activities of this summer. Like the earlier series, the Saint Petersburg images focus on social and professional groups--soccer fans, Hermitage guardswomen, corporate lawyers, auto mechanics, etc.--adapting to their rapidly growing, increasingly westernized west·ern·ize tr.v. west·ern·ized, west·ern·iz·ing, west·ern·iz·es To convert to the customs of Western civilization. west environments. For this issue's Centerfold cen·ter·fold n. 1. A magazine center spread, especially a foldout of an oversize photograph or feature. 2. a. The subject of a photograph used as a centerfold, often a nude model. b. , Manninen set aside his Hasselblad, departing from his usual square format to create a rectangular image especially for our new double-page feature. |
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