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East Wing presents a special online exhibition on Artsy by the artistic duo, Cortis and Sonderegger, titled “ICONS: Reconstructing the History of Photography.” This fascinating series by Swiss-based artists, Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger re-envisions iconic images from the history of photography. Employing analogue tools with humour and intellect, the artists rebuild the images in their studio, challenging conventional ideas of what constitutes a ‘document’.

From Robert Capa's falling soldier in the Spanish Civil War (1936), to Joe Rosenthal’s raising of the American flag on Iwo …