© Jo Ann WaltersI met Jo Ann Walters in the summer of 2002 at the Maine Photography Workshops. I was working as a teaching assistant, helping a different photographer each week in the classroom. That summer would end up being an important one for me personally and professionally. I was new to photography and hungry to absorb as much as I could from the teachers and students who were passing...
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Stranded at NADA
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Cheerleaders, New Orleans, Louisiana © Amy SteinI am equally mesmerized and repulsed by art fairs in general and the annual Miami art fair fete in particular. I love the opportunity to see so much work in one place, but often it is presented without context and the whole air of commerce can be overwhelming. It's a love, love, hate, love kind of thing for me.Sadly, this year I will not be...
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Things Fall Apart in Berlin
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This Friday Things Fall Apart opens at Pool Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition is my first curatorial foray at Pool and features a stellar lineup of artists. When Pool approached me about curating a show of work that was in dialog with my Stranded series I immediately started to make a shortlist of artists in my head. It was important to me that the show feature all women artists because we are...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Halloween in Harlem Prints Now Available on 20x200
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Untitled (Hulk) and Untitled (Powerpuff Girls) from my Halloween in Harlem series are now available from 20x200. I am a big believer in the 20x200 mission of (limited editions × low prices) + the internet = art for everyone and was flattered when they asked me to participate. For my 20x200 edition I made the decision to offer C-prints which meant hand printing every last photo. It almost kil...
Monday, 25 October 2010
Halloween in Harlem and 20x200 This Wednesay
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Two photos from my Halloween in Harlem series will be available this Wednesday on 20x200. I can't divulge which images until Wednesday, but the prints look great and you will definitely be pleased. For my edition I decided to hand make C-prints. Individually printing over a thousand photographs in four days almost ruined me, but I'm very pleased with the final product and happy to be working...
Friday, 8 October 2010
Chinese Mao Impersonators
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© Tommaso BonaventuraTommaso Bonaventura's portraits of Mao Zedong impersonators.(Via Raw Fi...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Are Fireflies Disappearing?
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Untitled (19), 1996 © Gregory CrewdsonFirst it was bees and now fireflies? There has been much anecdotal evidence that fireflies populations are in decline. The Museum of Science wants to know for sure and has started Firefly Watch, a ten year citizen scientist driven mission, to find out.(Via Treehugg...
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
A Few Questions for Chris Verene
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© Chris Verene, 2007I’ve been familiar with Chris Verene’s photographs since I started graduate school at the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Chris was a critique teacher there, and although I never had the chance to study with him I was always curious about his highly saturated, unsettling and poignant images of his extended family. Chris has been photographing his relatives in Galesburg,...
Saturday, 25 September 2010
A Line Describing The Sun
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William Lamson is a fellow POCer and one of the most original, witty and creative artists working today. For his latest project, A Line Describing The Sun, William has finally scaled his genius to its appropriate size. A Line Describing the Sun involved a day long performance in which I followed the path of the sun with a large Fresnel lens mounted on a rolling apparatus. The lens focuses ...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Thursday, 16 September 2010
When Werner Herzog Rescued Joaquin Phoenix
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When Herzog Rescued Phoenix from Sascha Ciezata on Vim...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Evolve or Die
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© Mona Lisa ProductionsI'm a bit of an evolution junkie. I'm particularly fascinated by the idea of evolution in real time. We tend to think of evolution as something that happens over millions of years, but there is evolutionary change happening right under our noses. See this story on Live Science about fish in southern Mexico who are adapting to a centuries old, yearly religious ceremony...
Monday, 13 September 2010
Found Science Images
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Dopamine crystals viewed with polarized light © Spike WalkerFrom "How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb"Behavior of waves © Berenice Abb...
Friday, 10 September 2010
Photographers are Terrorists
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Photography is Not a Crime shows us a new poster by the Transportation Security Administration that makes a pretty clear assertion: if you are a photographer near an airport you are potential terrorists and must be reported. Next thing you know some church in Florida will start burning copies of The Americans.UPDATE: The TSA responds. Thinking about it more, I don't know if the greater insult is...
Saturday, 19 June 2010
I Love This Photo
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I'm loving this photo of Jason Polan, me and Melanie Flood by Bert Teuniss...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
The Exhibition Lab
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© Dreamboats CollectiveRecently, there has been a lot of renewed interest in joint endeavors within photography world. Collectives like Piece of Cake and the Dreamboat Collective have been formed to deepen community and support for their members. Lots of people are discussing their work together and it's helping to rewrite the rules of the art world.The collective spirit is not limited to...
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Dennis Hopper RIP
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Double Standards, 1961 © Dennis HopperDennis Hopper's contribution to acting and cinema was singular. He was also a very talented photographer whose body work stands head and shoulders above most celebrity-come-photographe...
Sunday, 9 May 2010
New York Photo Festival and NY Perspectives
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© Marc GarangerMay in New York means the New York Photo Festival, which opens this Thursday. Last year I missed the festival because I was traveling, but this time around I plan to get myself to many of the events. There are some great artists talks scheduled including: Deborah Willis and Jessica Ingram, Zed Nelson, Eirik Johnson and Jason Houston, and Marc Garanger. As an army photographer in...
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Fortune Rejects Chris Ware Cover
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Fortune Magazine commissioned Chris Ware to do the cover for their annual Fortune 500 issue. He responded with the brilliant critique of capitalism you see above. Fortune promptly rejected it. (Via Kottk...
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Tales From FotoFest
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The stage is set for portfolio speed-datingI've always wanted to go to Houston for FotoFest. The shows, the people, the line dancing. One year I'll get down there. In the meantime I asked a two friends, Phil Toledano and Justine Reyes, who attended the portfolio reviews this year to report back from the trenches. It's been a few days since they returned home, but you get the idea.Phil Toledano...
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Plagiarism: The World's Oldest Profession
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With much (too much) discussion of late about plagiarism in the photography world, it's important to have some historical context. To wit, You Thought We Wouldn't Notice points to the interesting similarities between the lions in Peter Paul Rubens's “The Meeting of Marie de Médicis and Henri IV at Lyon” and Paul de Vos's “The Ark of Noah.” Theft seems to be the one true constant in the long hu...
Friday, 26 March 2010
BAMart Silent Auction
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Untitled (Yellow Dress) © Amy SteinA new image from my Halloween in Harlem series is included in the 6th Annual BAMart Silent Auction. The bidding is open now and runs through this Sunday. If you are in New York you understand how important the Brooklyn Academy of Music is to the cultural landscape of the city. If you don't live in New York, just know it's a great cause and there is some top...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Stranded at Foto Freo
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Cheerleaders, New Orleans, Louisiana © Amy SteinA few years ago Mark McPherson contacted me out of the blue asking if I was interested in taking part in a book project that focused on Australian and American photographers. I thought, hmm... that's random, but potentially interesting. I knew very little about Australia beyond the cliches of surfing, kangaroos and walkabouts. Since Hijacked was...
What Makes Us Human?
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© Ryan Berkley IllustrationThere is an interesting article in Seed Magazine that sums up recent research around the growing debate of whether animals are people. It would appear that many of the traits we have long considered uniquely human are not so unique after all. The debate feels less like a struggle for scientific clarity and more like a brainy ape's desperate attempt to hold on to his...
Friday, 12 March 2010
Thank You Kodak
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Through the loupeA year ago I met Stacy Mehrfar for a drink at the Half King in Chelsea. We'd known each other since our early days printing in the color darkroom at the ICP, but on that day Stacy was in town from Sydney, where she lives with her husband Gavin. As we were catching up over a drink and talking about her new adopted country, she mentioned a strange phrase, Tall Poppy Syndrome....
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Greetings From Down Under
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Outback © Amy Stein or Stacy Mehrfar. Who cares?This blog has been quiet lately because I've been focusing on making images rather than writing about them.Right now, I'm in Australia to participate in Foto Freo. The festival--which will feature the first solo show of Stranded and a panel discussion where I'll be speaking about online photo communities and blogging with the illustrious Andy Adams...
Saturday, 27 February 2010
People Got A Lotta Nerve
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When I heard about the recent Sea World incident, I immediately thought of the song "People Got A Lotta Nerve" from Neko Case's brilliant album, Middle Cyclone. Here is the video by Julie and Paul Morstad. You know they call them killer whalesBut you seem surprisedWhen it pinned you down to the bottom of the tankWhere you can't turn aroundIt took half your leg and both your lungsAnd I craved...
Monday, 22 February 2010
Logorama
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Amazing animated piece from French design studio, H5. Via Next Natu...
Saturday, 13 February 2010
In Conversation: Lyle Rexer and Amy Stein
Posted on 09:09 by election
Production still from Wendy and LucyPlease join me next Friday for a special event. I will be talking with renowned art critic Lyle Rexer about my series Stranded and the themes that connect it with Kelly Reichardt’s award winning film Wendy and Lucy.When I saw Wendy and Lucy in 2008 at the Film Forum I was struck by the similarities between Stranded and this beautifully simple film about...
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Instruments of Empire
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JC Penney © Brian Ulrich"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments."– Napoleon BonaparteThursday night is the opening of my two-person show with Brian Ulrich, Instruments of Empire, at Caption Gallery in Brooklyn. The exhibition will feature new work from my Stranded series and Brian’s Dark Stores series, plus work we created specifically for the show where we reference each...
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Spam Wins
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I started this blog four years ago this June. In that time I've chronicled my life fresh from grad school to something close to an "emerged" artist. Lately, I have been contemplating whether or not to continue publishing as my day is pretty much filled with my job as a full time artist and teacher. I've decided to keep it going, but I've been looking for ways to trim blog time and make my life...
Sunday, 17 January 2010
MLK
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Today is Martin Luther King Day. Few have contributed more to the American experience than MLK and while his legacy is often defined by his tireless fight for civil rights, it should not be forgotten that he was a pacifist to the core and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.Listen to his Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence speech delivered on April 4, 1967 at the Riverside Church in...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
William Greiner Auctioning Print and Book for Haitian Relief
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Bingo Board, Luling La 1990 print up for auctionThe Reposed up for auctionThe super talented William Greiner is auctioning a $500 print & $40 book on eBay with all proceeds going to American Red Cross Haitian Reli...
Haiti
Posted on 13:37 by election
The earthquake in Haiti is being called the disaster of the century and many on the ground believe the death toll could be in the tens of thousands. What is needed most is money. And you have it. Please GIVE NOW to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. 100% of funds raised goes to the relief operati...
Saturday, 9 January 2010
The Third & The Seventh
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This short film by Alex Roman is done entirely with CGI animation. From Alex:A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.Watch it at full screen for best effe...
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Three Shows and a Trip to Woodstock
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Still Life with Banana, Purse and Change © Justine ReyesThe holiday season is behind us and I'm very much looking forward to the first openings of the new year. Good friends Tim Briner, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, and Justine Reyes all have what promise to be stellar shows opening this week. I met Tim Briner in 2007 days before he was about to set off on his year long trip exploring small town...
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Thoughtography
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Nikola Tesla's 'thought projector'Mind Hacks points to an article in Fortean Times that details efforts in the early history of photography to capture the "psychic projection of images directly onto film." Before you laugh and think thoughtography in the same quackish vein as spirit photography do note that one of humanity's greatest minds, Nikola Tesla, was convinced he could devise a means to...
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Colonialism Through the Lens of a Camera
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Agnes Mary Hutchins, born in Zanzibar, 16 May/09Northwestern University Library has made available The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960, an online database of over 7,000 photographs documenting the European colonization of East Africa. Be warned, the collection is rife with uncomfortable photos in the tradition of The People of India and the library spends...
Friday, 1 January 2010
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