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Regular readers of Razorblades & Aspirin are already familiar with Lindas work via the interview in issue 15 (reprinted here on ye olde shitstack), so some of these images will be familiar but what we have here is the full breadth of those weeks spent fighting for the right angle, the correct bit of light, waiting for the precise moment to capture the moment of energy, angst, power which makes these images so compelling

However the size and extent of the underground market is likely to be underestimated due to its illicit status

Essentially many brands use lower quality tobacco, or tobacco filled with toxic chemicals and additional materials

Indeed, the extent of one's familiarity with the Benning oeuvre is a crucial element in any approach to Twenty Cigarettes which at 97 minutes forms a rather more accessible and straightforward introduction to Benning than the forbiddingly challenging and structurally lopsided Ruhr (its sixty-minute second half comprising a single static shot of coke-works chimneys going through a fume-belching cycle that indirectly prefigures the rather more small-scale smoke-exhalations captured here.) To "innocent" eyes, Twenty Cigarettes functions as a coherent and intriguing, playful formal exercise

If yes, then you must be curious

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