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Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto: Contemporary Japanese Photography
(09 November 2007) - by Anna OberthurCalled a genius by some and a misogynist by others, Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is probably best known for his sexually provocative female nudes. But the controversial artist's work stretches beyond black and white portraits of women draped across rumpled bedclothes or—more distressingly—elaborately bound and tied to trees. In the Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto: Contemporary Japanese Photography exhibit opening 10 November 2007 at Kunstmuseum...
(09 November 2007) - by Anna OberthurCalled a genius by some and a misogynist by others, Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is probably best known for his sexually provocative female nudes. But the controversial artist's work stretches beyond black and white portraits of women draped across rumpled bedclothes or—more distressingly—elaborately bound and tied to trees. In the Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto: Contemporary Japanese Photography exhibit opening 10 November 2007 at Kunstmuseum...
Florian Maier-Achen
(07 November 2007) - Florian Maier-Achen is a young landscape photographer born in Cologne, Germany, and now residing in Los Angeles. Maier-Achen's ability to convey dark, apocalyptic feelings in his work transform earthy landscapes and sweeping terrains into things of beauty and terror. His photos are featured in several important public collections including the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Saatchi Gallery...
(07 November 2007) - Florian Maier-Achen is a young landscape photographer born in Cologne, Germany, and now residing in Los Angeles. Maier-Achen's ability to convey dark, apocalyptic feelings in his work transform earthy landscapes and sweeping terrains into things of beauty and terror. His photos are featured in several important public collections including the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Saatchi Gallery...
Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
(01 November 2007) - For her latest project called "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar," photographer Taryn Simon takes on the dual role of modern undercover spy and old-time collector of curiosities. After years of extensive research and struggling to overcome government restrictions, Simon has created a collection of photographs that documents the inaccessible places that exist below the surface of American identity. It took her...
(01 November 2007) - For her latest project called "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar," photographer Taryn Simon takes on the dual role of modern undercover spy and old-time collector of curiosities. After years of extensive research and struggling to overcome government restrictions, Simon has created a collection of photographs that documents the inaccessible places that exist below the surface of American identity. It took her...
Three Photographs from Frieze 2007
(29 October 2007) - Three artists playing with light, form, perception and optical illusion. Sean Snyder: A broken piece of raw optical glass from the Carl Zeiss Archive, 2007 Snyder picked this photo of raw optical glass, taken between the First and Second World Wars, from the Carl Zeiss Archive (world famous lens manufacturer) and reprinted it using the various standard processes of the printing industry—as a photographic...
(29 October 2007) - Three artists playing with light, form, perception and optical illusion. Sean Snyder: A broken piece of raw optical glass from the Carl Zeiss Archive, 2007 Snyder picked this photo of raw optical glass, taken between the First and Second World Wars, from the Carl Zeiss Archive (world famous lens manufacturer) and reprinted it using the various standard processes of the printing industry—as a photographic...
Morganna Magee
(25 October 2007) - Melbourne-based documentary photographer Morganna Magee shot this backstage series on showgirls to show the "banal reality of what they do as opposed to the sexed-up glamour of being on stage."...
(25 October 2007) - Melbourne-based documentary photographer Morganna Magee shot this backstage series on showgirls to show the "banal reality of what they do as opposed to the sexed-up glamour of being on stage."...
Fetish by David Lynch and Christian Louboutin
(23 October 2007) - A perfect example of the strange and creative works that can come out of a collaboration between very different artists is the recent project by the filmmaker David Lynch and the shoe designer Christian Louboutin, both absolute masters of their medium. We discovered "Fetish" at Design Art London where these extraordinary shoes by Louboutin and their erotic photographic counterparts by Lynch were on show...
(23 October 2007) - A perfect example of the strange and creative works that can come out of a collaboration between very different artists is the recent project by the filmmaker David Lynch and the shoe designer Christian Louboutin, both absolute masters of their medium. We discovered "Fetish" at Design Art London where these extraordinary shoes by Louboutin and their erotic photographic counterparts by Lynch were on show...
Diana+ Reissue from Lomo
(18 October 2007) - Fans of Lomography will be excited to hear about the Diana+, a faithful reproduction of the plastic 120 camera made by the Great Wall Plastics Factory in the 1960s. At the time they were originally produced, the Diana was priced at only about $1 but still failed to be a mainstream commercial success and was often a free-with-purchase giveaway. With time the camera gained...
(18 October 2007) - Fans of Lomography will be excited to hear about the Diana+, a faithful reproduction of the plastic 120 camera made by the Great Wall Plastics Factory in the 1960s. At the time they were originally produced, the Diana was priced at only about $1 but still failed to be a mainstream commercial success and was often a free-with-purchase giveaway. With time the camera gained...
Shaolin: Temple of Zen
(09 October 2007) - Shaolin monks, the guardians of the "vehicle to zen," are the subject of talented and determined photographer Justin Guariglia's new book, Shaolin: Temple of Zen. Having once made the two-day trip from Beijing to the birthplace of Zen Buddhism, the Shaolin Temples of central China, where Guariglia shot the series, I know these images were not easy to get. Walking the grounds as a...
(09 October 2007) - Shaolin monks, the guardians of the "vehicle to zen," are the subject of talented and determined photographer Justin Guariglia's new book, Shaolin: Temple of Zen. Having once made the two-day trip from Beijing to the birthplace of Zen Buddhism, the Shaolin Temples of central China, where Guariglia shot the series, I know these images were not easy to get. Walking the grounds as a...
Jackie Nickerson: Faith
(09 October 2007) - Taking on the hidden world of Irish Catholicism, photographer Jackie Nickerson's latest body of work, called "Faith," visits the hallways, libraries, kitchens and dining rooms of Catholic institutions. Shot over two-and-a-half years, her resulting portraits of priests and nuns, architectural details and still-lifes (such as an image of the waste from communion wafers) are touched with intimacy and absurdity. The series offers a rare...
(09 October 2007) - Taking on the hidden world of Irish Catholicism, photographer Jackie Nickerson's latest body of work, called "Faith," visits the hallways, libraries, kitchens and dining rooms of Catholic institutions. Shot over two-and-a-half years, her resulting portraits of priests and nuns, architectural details and still-lifes (such as an image of the waste from communion wafers) are touched with intimacy and absurdity. The series offers a rare...
Jill Greenberg: Ursine
(08 October 2007) - The latest subject to get photographer Jill Greenberg's black-belt photoshop treatment are members of the Ursidae family. Known for her images of crying babies and more recently for her portraits of monkeys, the bear series continues to explore themes of humanity, emotion and duality seen in her previous work. Like with her other subjects, the bears express a range of often contradictory feelings, running...
(08 October 2007) - The latest subject to get photographer Jill Greenberg's black-belt photoshop treatment are members of the Ursidae family. Known for her images of crying babies and more recently for her portraits of monkeys, the bear series continues to explore themes of humanity, emotion and duality seen in her previous work. Like with her other subjects, the bears express a range of often contradictory feelings, running...
Leigh Davis: Ensemble
(04 October 2007) - Photographer Leigh Davis, dividing her time between New York and Montréal, editorial work (for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Tokion and Res) and clients such as American Eagle Outfitters, Bruce Mau Design, and Carnegie Mellon University, is a very busy woman. Lucky for us she's managed to find time to finish up one of her current projects titled "Ensemble." It's a...
(04 October 2007) - Photographer Leigh Davis, dividing her time between New York and Montréal, editorial work (for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Tokion and Res) and clients such as American Eagle Outfitters, Bruce Mau Design, and Carnegie Mellon University, is a very busy woman. Lucky for us she's managed to find time to finish up one of her current projects titled "Ensemble." It's a...
Laura Letinsky: To Say It Isn't So
(03 October 2007) - There will always be a big place in my heart for beautiful pictures of ugly things, and Laura Letinsky's discarded Styrofoam cups, paper napkins, plastic cutlery, crushed cans, and paper bags couldn't be prettier. Carefully composed with soft colors and wonderful lighting, Letinsky creates the timeless beauty of the classical still life with the chaotic banality of contemporary consumer culture. "17th-century Northern European painting...
(03 October 2007) - There will always be a big place in my heart for beautiful pictures of ugly things, and Laura Letinsky's discarded Styrofoam cups, paper napkins, plastic cutlery, crushed cans, and paper bags couldn't be prettier. Carefully composed with soft colors and wonderful lighting, Letinsky creates the timeless beauty of the classical still life with the chaotic banality of contemporary consumer culture. "17th-century Northern European painting...
Dan Chesterman: Angkor
(01 October 2007) - Traveling through Angkor in January 2003, Dan Chesterman took a series of evocative photos that now form the basis of his upcoming exhibition at the blank_space gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney that opens later this week. Shooting analogue, he captures the natural beauty of the area, with a focus on the relationship between the temples and the trees that have grown over and around...
(01 October 2007) - Traveling through Angkor in January 2003, Dan Chesterman took a series of evocative photos that now form the basis of his upcoming exhibition at the blank_space gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney that opens later this week. Shooting analogue, he captures the natural beauty of the area, with a focus on the relationship between the temples and the trees that have grown over and around...
Paolo Ventura Dioramas
(11 September 2007) - Is it possible to love dioramas too much? I don’t think so. I particularly love the macabre dioramas of Paolo Ventura. His first body of work, called "War Souvenir," is a series of scenes set in his native Italy during WW II. The images are often gruesome in their detail—murders, hangings, dead soldiers face down in the mud—while others have an almost casual romance...
(11 September 2007) - Is it possible to love dioramas too much? I don’t think so. I particularly love the macabre dioramas of Paolo Ventura. His first body of work, called "War Souvenir," is a series of scenes set in his native Italy during WW II. The images are often gruesome in their detail—murders, hangings, dead soldiers face down in the mud—while others have an almost casual romance...
Paul Graham: A Shimmer of Possibility
(30 August 2007) - Inspired by Chekhov's short stories—and by his own contagious joy in the book form—photographer Paul Graham created A Shimmer of Possibility, comprised of 10 individual books, each a photographic short story of everyday life. Some are simple and linear: a man smokes a cigarette while he waits for a bus in Las Vegas or the camera tracks an autumn walk in Boston. Some entwine...
(30 August 2007) - Inspired by Chekhov's short stories—and by his own contagious joy in the book form—photographer Paul Graham created A Shimmer of Possibility, comprised of 10 individual books, each a photographic short story of everyday life. Some are simple and linear: a man smokes a cigarette while he waits for a bus in Las Vegas or the camera tracks an autumn walk in Boston. Some entwine...
The Plastic Bag Gallery
(27 August 2007) - Dust off your digicams and start roaming the streets for plastic bags, folks. The Photographer's Gallery is collecting images of plastic bags around London and elsewhere to illustrate the impact of our disposable culture on the environment. Called "The Plastic Bag Gallery," This passive, aesthetic approach to green is somehow more pervasive than many hard-hitting campaigns we're served these days. And let's face it,...
(27 August 2007) - Dust off your digicams and start roaming the streets for plastic bags, folks. The Photographer's Gallery is collecting images of plastic bags around London and elsewhere to illustrate the impact of our disposable culture on the environment. Called "The Plastic Bag Gallery," This passive, aesthetic approach to green is somehow more pervasive than many hard-hitting campaigns we're served these days. And let's face it,...
Aaron Hobson: Cinemascapes
(24 August 2007) - Tweaking the mundane to create the bizarre, each of Aaron Hobson's images suggests a plot line for the imagination to fill in the blanks. He constructs his "cinemascapes" using multiple images, stitching them together to create a scene filled with small details that hint at a complex narrative. Raised in industrial Pittsburgh but now based in a small Adirondack Mountain town near the Canadian...
(24 August 2007) - Tweaking the mundane to create the bizarre, each of Aaron Hobson's images suggests a plot line for the imagination to fill in the blanks. He constructs his "cinemascapes" using multiple images, stitching them together to create a scene filled with small details that hint at a complex narrative. Raised in industrial Pittsburgh but now based in a small Adirondack Mountain town near the Canadian...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Manual
(16 August 2007) - Manual, the newest monograph from London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, is massive at just over 430 pages. Monumental in size as well as content, it's the most comprehensive view of the artist's work to date and features many previously unpublished works from the past five years. Tillmans, who won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2000, uses the edition to highlight his own experimental approach to...
(16 August 2007) - Manual, the newest monograph from London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, is massive at just over 430 pages. Monumental in size as well as content, it's the most comprehensive view of the artist's work to date and features many previously unpublished works from the past five years. Tillmans, who won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2000, uses the edition to highlight his own experimental approach to...
Mike Brodie
(10 August 2007) - I love Polaroids. And everyone out there who believes that you need a lot of fancy equipment to take great photographs needs to look at the wonderful Polaroid pictures of Mike Brodie, aka The Polaroid Kidd. Brodie left home at 18 to travel the rails across America, and found himself spending three years photographing the friends and companions he encountered with a Polaroid SX-70...
(10 August 2007) - I love Polaroids. And everyone out there who believes that you need a lot of fancy equipment to take great photographs needs to look at the wonderful Polaroid pictures of Mike Brodie, aka The Polaroid Kidd. Brodie left home at 18 to travel the rails across America, and found himself spending three years photographing the friends and companions he encountered with a Polaroid SX-70...
Kaiserin Magazine
(09 August 2007) - Eclectic, crazy and refreshing, Kaiserin Magazine should be on everyone's required summer reading list. Founded in 2006 by Arnaud-Pierre Fourtané and Didier Fitan, this French-English bilingual biannual calls itself "a magazine for boys with problems and all the girls who like them." It features the work of both established and emerging artists, photographers, authors, designers and illustrators who address homosexuality in their work. The...
(09 August 2007) - Eclectic, crazy and refreshing, Kaiserin Magazine should be on everyone's required summer reading list. Founded in 2006 by Arnaud-Pierre Fourtané and Didier Fitan, this French-English bilingual biannual calls itself "a magazine for boys with problems and all the girls who like them." It features the work of both established and emerging artists, photographers, authors, designers and illustrators who address homosexuality in their work. The...
Neon Graveyard
(09 August 2007) - An insight into the flashy history of Las Vegas, Neon Graveyard is a photographic collection of disused billboards and signs shot by Carl Lukasewich at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center....
(09 August 2007) - An insight into the flashy history of Las Vegas, Neon Graveyard is a photographic collection of disused billboards and signs shot by Carl Lukasewich at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center....
Adad Hannah: Living Stills
(07 August 2007) - Born in New York in 1971, artist Adad Hannah spent his formative years in London and Vancouver before settling in Montreal, where he currently lives and works. He has exhibited in Seoul, Madrid, Poland, Amsterdam, Cardiff and Basel to mention but a few. The past six years of his career have been focused on "tableaux vivants" or "living stills," a process involves posing models...
(07 August 2007) - Born in New York in 1971, artist Adad Hannah spent his formative years in London and Vancouver before settling in Montreal, where he currently lives and works. He has exhibited in Seoul, Madrid, Poland, Amsterdam, Cardiff and Basel to mention but a few. The past six years of his career have been focused on "tableaux vivants" or "living stills," a process involves posing models...
One Hundred and One Things To Do
(03 August 2007) - Never be bored again with KesselsKramer's latest offering, one hundred and one things to do. Jam packed with plenty to keep you occupied and presented with a stunning collection of simple photographic images, it is as much a coffee table text as a manual for any crafternoon collective. The text is a 40-page essay based on ideas from Do, a label created by KesselsKramer...
(03 August 2007) - Never be bored again with KesselsKramer's latest offering, one hundred and one things to do. Jam packed with plenty to keep you occupied and presented with a stunning collection of simple photographic images, it is as much a coffee table text as a manual for any crafternoon collective. The text is a 40-page essay based on ideas from Do, a label created by KesselsKramer...
PHTHRD
(02 August 2007) - Our good friends at LVHRD are hosting PHTHRD, a timed photography competition between teams of photographers and stylists. Three categories—character, dialogue and inspiration—made for some interesting and at times provocative photos. Now's your chance to vote here for your favorite before 6 August 2007....
(02 August 2007) - Our good friends at LVHRD are hosting PHTHRD, a timed photography competition between teams of photographers and stylists. Three categories—character, dialogue and inspiration—made for some interesting and at times provocative photos. Now's your chance to vote here for your favorite before 6 August 2007....
Maguila #12
(01 August 2007) - Maguila is a free PDF art magazine and its newest edition is now available for download. Full of spectacular art worthy of whitewashed walls in any gallery, this 94-page issue packs in drawings, paintings, photography, collage and graphic design work from two dozen global artists—most probably unknown to the casual viewer but all deserving their due. Maguila germinated from a idea that started with...
(01 August 2007) - Maguila is a free PDF art magazine and its newest edition is now available for download. Full of spectacular art worthy of whitewashed walls in any gallery, this 94-page issue packs in drawings, paintings, photography, collage and graphic design work from two dozen global artists—most probably unknown to the casual viewer but all deserving their due. Maguila germinated from a idea that started with...
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