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Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Monday, 29 October 2007
New Stranded Photos Added to Google Map
Posted on 17:43 by election
Lori and Ron, Interstate 5, Oregon © Amy SteinI've added some new photographs to my Stranded Google map from my most recent road trip through northern California and Nevada, southern Idaho, and Oregon. I really believe there are some winners here.I am thinking about making another Stranded trip in the next couple of weeks. This time we may be hitting the highways of the Midwest looking for...
Saturday, 27 October 2007
"I’m Just a Photographer"
Posted on 05:55 by election
© Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide/Photo Archive GroupFascinating story in today's New York Times about Nhem En, the man who took the pictures that serve as chilling evidence of the killing fields of Cambodia. Nhem En was the staff photographer at Tuol Sleng prison, the torture house of the Khmer Rouge. From the NYT:He had a job to do, and he did it supremely well, under threat of death, within...
Friday, 26 October 2007
Lori Nix at Randall Scott Gallery
Posted on 09:14 by election
Great Hall 2006 © Lori NixThis Saturday Randall Scott Gallery will be holding an opening reception for a solo exhibition of work by the very talented and delightful Lori Nix. I recently paid a visit to Lori's studio and it reminded me of Gepetto's workshop if Gepetto kept sheets of extruded foam and tiny boxes filled with improvised tools and miniature model odds and ends. You can get a sense...
Nan Goldin Photo Ruled 'Not Indecent'
Posted on 07:08 by election
I have been following this story for a while and it looks like more rational heads have finally prevailed. Some would say this type of event is good because it advances public discourse about acceptable community standards, but I never find police raids and confiscations to be an effective opening statement in any debate. My question is does ruling something 'not indecent' mean it is in fact...
Monday, 22 October 2007
American Photo's Top Emerging Photograpahers
Posted on 09:06 by election
The current issue of American Photo features their selection of the top fifteen emerging photographers and I made the list. Needless to say, I am very humbled by my inclusion with such a fabulous group of talented photographers. Also making American Photo's list of the "new generation of photo pioneers": Shen Wei, Donald Weber, Mikhael Subotsky, Jason and Carlos Sanchez, Steven Laxton,...
Friday, 19 October 2007
Nice Kitty
Posted on 20:25 by election
Any time you bring a catfish, a dead chicken, a hand grenade, and a large wildcat into your home you know the results will be magical. Via Best Week Ever comes a series of surreal photos of a Russian household sharing their life with a bizarre family p...
Thursday, 18 October 2007
$623,400
Posted on 20:27 by election
Trolley, New Orleans, 1955 © Robert FrankSold at Christie's photography auction Wednesd...
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Sunday, 14 October 2007
The End of a Crazy Week
Posted on 15:26 by election
Spectrum of Life © Matthew PillsburyThe week behind was a little crazy as I tried to complete my Domesticated monograph. I took another trip to Matamoras to make a picture and I have been meeting with graphic designers so I can get cracking on the look and feel of the monograph. I've also been scrambling to get new prints together for a show of my Stranded work at SMoCA. It's hard out here ...
Friday, 12 October 2007
The White Stripes Holga
Posted on 13:54 by election
The White Stripes have partnered with Lomographische to produce limited edition cameras. The "Jack" model will be a Holga with fisheye lens and the "Meg" model will be the Diana+ with ringflash. Both packages will come with custom lenses and will, of course, be deliciously red and white. Pretty cool. They go on sale this Mond...
Thursday, 11 October 2007
Take It To The Bridge
Posted on 10:24 by election
Watering Hole © Amy SteinIf you are in London this weekend be sure to make it over to the Bridge Art Fair. Randall Scott Gallery will be exhibiting work from my Domesticated, Stranded, and Halloween in Harlem series in addition to works by Julia Fullerton-Batten, Cara Ober, Nick Walker, Etsuko Ichikawa, Ryoko Suzuki, Sarah Wilmer, Alejandra Laviada. Here are the details:Bridge Art FairOctober...
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Block Ice & Propane
Posted on 13:04 by election
© Lee FriedlanderErik Friedlander is an amazing cellist whose new album, Block Ice & Propane, has quickly become my new favorite traveling companion. Erik also happens to be the son of Lee Friedlander. The new album was inspired by the many childhood road trips he took with his family in their camper. The product of those road trips happen to be some of the more amazing family snapshots ever...
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
I Love Gifts in the Mail: Colin Blakely and Rachael Dunville
Posted on 10:49 by election
© Colin BlakelyLast week was a gift-in-the-mail bonanza. Colin Blakely sent me a signed print from his Somewhere in Middle America series. I first saw the image, The Seeming Impenetrability of the Space Between, at the Griffin Museum and promptly gushed about it on my blog. If you are in the Boston area you can still see the photo in person at the 13th Annual Griffin Juried Show. Also, be...
Fascists Attack Andres Serrano Photos in Swedish Gallery
Posted on 07:42 by election
So sad that this is the state of public discourse. From the IHT: A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the strain of thundering death-metal music, was posted on YouTube last week. This was no joke or acting stunt. It was what actually happened on a quiet Friday afternoon in Lund, a small...
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Sold to the Lady with the Wine in Her Hand
Posted on 19:53 by election
© Rebecca Norris WebbSaturday we drove "upstate" to Mt Tremper to visit Mathew Pokoik and finally see the Interactive Landscape show. Mathew lives on an enviable slice of paradise in the Catskill Mountains. Vegetable gardens, 150 acres of forest, a beautiful house from the 1800s nestled next to a two-hundred-year-old Sugar Maple tree; it's the type of place that makes city dwellers drool....
Friday, 5 October 2007
Best Band Photo Ever
Posted on 10:00 by election
© Piper FergusonToday Pitchfork featured a stream of the song Rachael by the group Neon Neon. Neon Neon is a collaboration between Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals and Boom Bip. The song is fun, but the band photo accompanying the stream is what caught my attention. Definitely a tip of the hat to Philip-Lorca diCorcia's classic photo, Eddie Anderson, 21 Years Old, Houston, TX.Update: Of...
Thursday, 4 October 2007
Hubble and the Crab Nebula
Posted on 20:24 by election
I just read about images from the Hubble Space Telescope on America Photo's State of the Art blog and then spent the next two hours staring at some of the most mesmerizing photos I've ever seen. These photos are beautiful and haunting and they spark huge mind-numbing questions about matter, space and time. It's almost as if they are art...
"We Don't Torture"
Posted on 06:44 by election
"I've said to the people that we don't torture, and we don't." -- George Bush, September 6, 2006Ooops, his bad. Looks like we really do. This isn't just the legacy of Bush, Cheney and Gonzales, this is your legacy and my legacy. Shameful.Update: Edward Winkleman has a much smarter screed on the subje...
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
Josef Koudelka: This Photo is Blowing My Mind
Posted on 11:44 by election
© Josef KoudelkaLast night we attended the Alessandra Sanguinetti artist talk at Aperture Gallery. Alessandra is very smart in how she approaches, executes and talks about her work and I took away a lot from the evening. While at Aperture I leafed through a copy of their new Josef Koudelka career-spanning book, Koudelka. How could one person have taken so many iconic images? It is all so g...
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Hysteria Wins, Thanksgiving is Over
Posted on 05:14 by election
Following the hysteria that lead police to confiscate a single Nan Goldin photo of two girls playing, Elton John has decided to pull the installation piece, Thanksgiving, from a Gateshead gallery. Here's the statement from the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art's Web site:BALTIC at the request of The Sir Elton John Photography Collection has closed the exhibition Thanksgiving by Nan Goldin.Af...
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