Untitled (Witches) © Amy St...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Skin Trade Opens Thursday
Posted on 18:46 by election
Skin Trade opens this Thursday at the Chashama ABC space on the Lower East Side. The show was curated by my dear friend by Dan Halm and features work by Elaine Bradford, Simen Johan, Eric Lendl, Christian Siekmeier, Amy Stein, and Kimberly Witham. All of the work centers on animals as decorative trophies.I am excited for the exhibition because I will be showing two pieces that have never bef...
Mus Mus on Election Day
Posted on 08:41 by election
I have been recruited by Mus Mus to take a photo on November 4. I'm still not sure who they are or what this all about, but apparently a bunch of photographers will be taking a picture at exactly the same time on Election Day. Maybe this is like Hands Across America, but without the touching. In addition to the invited photographers they are also issuing an "open call" to select 25 additional...
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Inaugural MPS Digital Photography Thesis Show
Posted on 07:23 by election
Tonight is the opening reception of Seamless, the inaugural thesis show of the MPS Digital Photography program at the School of Visual Arts. In one year, department chair Katrin Eismann has made this program one of the best digital photography programs in the country. For evidence of Katrin's wisdom, you need look no further than her sage decisions to hire me as a teacher in the program and...
Monday, 27 October 2008
Jackson Heights is the Center of the Photographic Universe
Posted on 09:47 by election
Kabab King, Jackson Heights © Jeff LiaoThe other day I was walking to the farmers market down the street and I suddenly I saw Jeff Liao sitting on a couch next to an apartment building. Jeff and I have been good friends for a while, but I was shocked to see him just sitting there. On a couch. On the street. In Jackson Heights.We talked for a few minutes and caught up on our latest shows....
Friday, 24 October 2008
Domesticated Book Landing Soon
Posted on 12:42 by election
The cover of DomesticatedMy first book, Domesticated, will finally be arriving in a couple of weeks. I've lived with this sucker for a long time now, sequencing and resequencing, editing and reediting, designing and redesigning, and then waiting and waiting while it was being printed in China. During the wait, the book managed to win the Photography Book Award at the New York Photo Festival....
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Lunch with Amy
Posted on 07:45 by election
Each week I get a ton of emails from photographers searching for advice, looking to connect with a contemporary, or just wanting to shoot the proverbial shit. Sometimes I will meet them for lunch or coffee. So, I'm starting a new feature on the blog called Lunch with Amy wherein I highlight the work of the photographer I've met and give a brief review of the lunch. Photographer: Adam...
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Black and White TV Generation Have Monochrome Dreams
Posted on 15:20 by election
TV in Hotel Room - Galax, Virginia © Lee FriedlanderA new study concludes the color of the media you consume between the ages of three and ten plays a crucial role in determining the visual perceptual properties of your dreams.Only 4.4 per cent of the under-25s' dreams were black and white. The over-55s who had had access to colour TV and film during their childhood also reported a very low...
Monday, 20 October 2008
Doug Aitken's "Migration" at 303 Gallery
Posted on 09:50 by election
Scene from Doug Aitken's MigrationFor his new installation piece, Migration, at 303 Gallery Doug Aitken projects video onto three massive billboard-like screens. The video features a series of anonymous roadside motel rooms inhabited by North American migratory animals. With this piece Aitken does a wonderful job of drawing the comparison between our own travels and the migration of these...
Sunday, 19 October 2008
The Patron Saint of Photographers
Posted on 18:44 by election
Saint Veronica by Hans MemlingThe legend goes that Veronica lined the route to Golgotha to watch Jesus carry his cross. She offered him her veil to wipe his brow and when she got it back it had a impression of his face. How do you get a messiah face stain out of a veil? I don't know, but apparently Veronica did because she is the patron saint of laundry workers. For her mad image capturing...
Saturday, 18 October 2008
American Photo's Top Emerging Photographers for 2008
Posted on 07:36 by election
© Eric PercherEach year American Photo magazine publishes their list of the top emerging photographers in the world. Last year I was very honored to be named to the list. I've worn my 2007 sash proudly and now gladly pass it on to a new crop of talented photographers.I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to see my very dear friend, Eric Percher, included. Eric and I met at a Maine...
Friday, 17 October 2008
The Politics of the Retouched Headshot
Posted on 11:12 by election
Un-retouched photo of Sarah Palin on the cover of NewsweekThe Atlantic has an interesting post by Virginia Postrel on the politics of portraiture:As Hillary Clinton can attest, a good portrait is not a random selection of what the camera sees, with no subjective input from human observers. A good portrait offers not mechanical objectivity but what the historians of science Lorraine Daston and...
Torturing Democracy
Posted on 09:07 by election
I have no doubt that when historians weigh in on the last eight years they will cast it as one of the darkest periods in our nation's history. What we do know about the Bush administration is troubling enough, but what we don't know is the stuff of nightmares. Beyond the obvious need to change our domestic policy agenda and repair our tattered reputation in the world, an Obama presidency and...
Monday, 13 October 2008
The End of the Stranded Midwest Tour 2008
Posted on 12:23 by election
Ghetto school in East St. Louis © Jacob HoldtYesterday was brutal. We drove from St Louis to Chicago (298 miles) and found only one situation to shoot. Definitely not the best way to end a 1,500 mile search for stranded motorists. Normally I would be completely frustrated, but this project is all about the collapse of certainty in America during the second term of the Bush administration, so...
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Meet Me in St Louis
Posted on 20:59 by election
208 High Street, Boonville, Missouri, 2007 © Timothy BrinerWe started the day in Kansas City and after a brief encounter with a weirdo at a Radio Shack in Kansas we hit up Brian Ulrich's show at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas. What an impressive space and what an impressive showing for Brian. He had twenty-one beautifully massive prints covering several rooms of...
Friday, 10 October 2008
Greetings From Kansas City
Posted on 21:02 by election
B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ, Kansas City, MOWe've spent the past three days on the road working on my Stranded project. On Wednesday we flew into Milwaukee, rented a car, and where off on big loop of the Midwest. From Milwaukee we drove straight to Minneapolis then to Des Moines and then to Kansas City. Up until today the trip has been a bit of stranded motorist bust. From Milwaukee to Minneapolis...
Monday, 6 October 2008
Who Does She Think She Is?
Posted on 07:41 by election
I'm usually unmoved by movie trailers, but this past Saturday I saw one that really piqued my attention. The trailer was for a new documentary called Who Does She Think She Is? that brings us into the lives of five women as they struggle with the inherent conflicts of trying to be a successful artist and mother. I have been interested in this subject ever since the the panel I moderated at 3rd...
Saturday, 4 October 2008
My Paparazzo
Posted on 08:40 by election
Julia Roberts and Jason Patric in the back of a taxi © Ron GalellaI just read this Wired article wherein the author hires her own paparazzo at $500/hr to stalk her throughout the day. The goal is to take "artful images that look unstaged and off-the-cuff." First, the images do not look like paparazzi images so much as the photos they find taped all over the bedroom walls of the quiet neighbor...
Friday, 3 October 2008
Battle Photo: Black Eye!
Posted on 07:53 by election
© Nan Goldinvs.Tim (Black Eye) © Ryan McGinleyInspired by the very insightful Mia Finem...
Art Fair 21 in Cologne This Weekend
Posted on 07:35 by election
If you are in or around Cologne, Germany this weekend and you have any interest in seeing (or buying!) my work, stop by the Pool Gallery booth at Art Fair 21. You can get the all the details on the fair he...
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Laser Portraits
Posted on 17:34 by election
This year I am teaching a portraiture class at Parsons and one of my first assignments was sending students to Kmart to have their portrait taken by a photographer at the Olin Mills Portrait Studios. The point of the exercise was to have them reengage with one of the many ways we encounter portraiture over the course of our lifetime. The results were cheeseball awesome. I mention this because...
But The Good News Is...
Posted on 11:32 by election
Cheerleaders, New Orleans © Will SteacyIf you are gay, the GOP is not your friend.But the good news is...The Art for Obama auction is now open for business. Bid early and bid often. If you are priced out of the art, you can always give a couple of nickles to the man himself.Tonight, Aperture and Parsons The New School For Design are sponsoring an artist's talk with Justine Kurland. Get the...
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