Gone For Good

Morphine... Gone For Good (.mp3 audio 02:52). From the album Yes (1995, Rykodisc RCD 10320). Mark Sandman died 10 years ago today.

Life After Death: The Legacy Of Mark Sandman And Morphine

Life After Death: The Legacy Of Mark Sandman And Morphine (Tony Sachs, The Huffington Post, July 3, 2009). "...Mark Sandman, frontman of the Boston-based alternative rock band Morphine, died ten years ago today, on July 3, 1999. It was the kind of death from which rock legends are born - he was onstage, at the height of his powers, with the most ambitious album of his career having just been completed. Morphine were signed to a powerful record label, and if they weren't a household name in the music world, they had a large cult following that enabled them to pack large clubs and theaters worldwide."

Laurence Gonry: Space Paf Paf

Laurence Gonry: Space Paf Paf. "...Laurence Gonry a suivi un parcours formatif important qui lui permet de jouer avec beaucoup d’aisance avec les possibilités de l’image : 3 ans d’études en arts graphiques à Saint-Luc Liège, 5 ans en gravure et illustration du livre à la Cambre et enfin, elle étudie la sérigraphie à l’Académie de Watermael-Boitsfort.
Elle est capable de sortir la gravure sur bois des ornières séculaires que s’est forgé l’art de l’estampe. Graphiquement, elle possède ce « petit quelque chose » qui fait franchir les barrières. Un mélange détonnant de techniques (gravure sur bois, gravures sur métal, gravure sur gomme, sérigraphie…) et de manipulations de l’image (agrandissement, surimpression, insertion de textes courts ou de mots) qui donnent à voir un monde grave teinté d’humour décalé." (be)

André Cypriano: Rocinha, An Orphan's Town

André Cypriano: Rocinha, An Orphan's Town (37 black & white photographs) at Zone Zero. "...Rocinha is the largest 'favela', or shantytown in Brazil. It spreads from the top to the bottom of a mountain. Ironically, it is surrounded by wealth. Because the 2,500 residents of this neighborhood have been neglected by the government, they have set up their own survival system, one ruled by drug-trafficking. What makes this community so captivating to document is how clearly this criminal system both terrorizes and supports the people of the slum." More... Works by André Cypriano at his personal site.

Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain

Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain. "...This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century. The majority of the slides focus on the Mudejar style, an ornate court style largely inspired by Spanish Islamic architecture that was shared among Islamic, Jewish, and Christian cultures during the later Middle Ages in Spain. He even began writing a book-length manuscript on Mudejar architecture, which he never completed."

When They Found The Atomic Power

Hawkshaw Hawkins... When They Found The Atomic Power (1947, King 611 .mp3 audio 02:48). From the album Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security (2005, Bear Family Records, BCD 16065).

When the Lord held out His mighty hand
So that others in this world might understand
That wars could never be and this world it must be free
When they found the mighty, mighty Atomic Power

Bruce of Los Angeles

Bruce of Los Angeles at Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art. "...Born Bruce Bellas in 1909, he was a chemistry professor from Nebraska who would wind up in Los Angeles as the top 'Beefcake' photographer of the 1950's. He started out there in the 1940's, shooting bodybuilding contests and met many of his models while working for Joe Weider's muscle magazine empire, which chronicled the physical culture movement sweeping across America following WWII. Bellas photographed some of the most important figures of this era; bodybuilders Steve Reeves, Ed Fury, and George Eiferman, as well as models such as Joe Dallesandro, Mark Nixon, and Brian Idol. By the 1960s had succeeded in publishing his own magazine, The Male Figure, which allowed clients to order prints of their favorite models."

Nicolai Howalt: Car Crash Studies

Nicolai Howalt: Car Crash Studies. From Nicolai Howalt Photography.

Discoveries: A special selection of extraordinary photographs from the gallery's private inventory

Discoveries: A special selection of extraordinary photographs from the gallery's private inventory at Bruce Silverstein Gallery.

Nobody Spoil My Fun

The Seeds... Nobody Spoil My Fun (.mp3 audio 03:54). From the album The Seeds (1966, GNP Crescendo GNP 2023)

Invader Top 10

Invader... Rubik London Calling by The Clash (400 Rubik's cubes on Perspex panel). From the exhibition Invader: Top 10 at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. "...Top 10 introduces a new series of original two and three-dimensional works featuring the artist’s signature pixel-based aesthetic, created in mediums such as mosaic tile and rubik’s cubes, which clearly translate the concept of pixilation (the division of visual information in digital format). Invader is the first artist to bring pixels to life, both in the physical world and in the art world. Echoing the neo-Impressionist painting technique of pointillism, with a contemporary voice, his evolved methods bring the composite image concept into the digital age. The show title Top 10 references popular music, as the artist has selected what he believes are the top ten album covers of his generation as subjects for re-interpretation using his own innovative technique of Rubikcubism."

The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women

The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women at Cheim & Read. "...a group exhibition of women artists depicting the female form. With this premise, the show seeks to present a collection of works which reclaim the traditional domination of the 'male gaze' and reorient the significance of the female figure to allow for more varied interpretations. A variety of mediums will be shown —sculpture, photography, video, painting and installation—and several different women artists represented, including: Berenice Abbott, Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, Diane Arbus, Vanessa Beecroft, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Kathe Burkhart, Julia Margaret Cameron, Victoria Civera, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Anh Duong, Judith Eisler, Tracey Emin, Ellen Gallagher, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Chantal Joffe, Deborah Kass, Maria Lassnig, Zoe Leonard, Sally Mann, Marilyn Minter, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Shirin Neshat, Collier Schorr, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Hannah van Bart, Hellen van Meene, Kara Walker, Francesca Woodman and Lisa Yuskavage."

David Schalliol: Isolated Building Studies

David Schalliol: Isolated Building Studies. "...The Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities." From David Schalliol Photography. Also... Works by David Schalliol at Flickr.

Desert Light

Desert Light at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York. "...The exhibit includes the work of a number of photographers who have been attracted to deserts: Edward, Brett, and Cole Weston, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Chambi, Lucien Clergue, Elisabeth Sunday, Dirk McDonnell, and Marilyn Bridges. Photographs in the exhibit range from the early part of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Despite the variety of images included in the exhibit, they are united by more than their setting in the deserts of North and South America, and North Africa. The powerful light of the desert makes for bold contrasts, giving every photograph, even those of the human figure, an abstract quality - and so an aura of modernism."

mini-tofu no.3

mini-tofu no.3 - Nikkatsu, Pink is the color of sex (Flash).

Yeah Baby

Stranger & Patsy... Yeah Baby (1964, Island WI 152 .mp3 audio 03:04). Stranger Cole and Patsy Todd - with Baba Brooks.

Negatives Are To Be Stored

Lens Culture... Negatives Are To Be Stored - photographs by Stefania Gurdowa. "...Eleven years ago, in the attic of a tenement house in the town of Debica, more than 1,000 damaged glass negative plates were discovered. Most of them depicted expressive portraits of anonymous individuals who lived in the neighborhood during the 20s and 30s." More... Works by Stefania Gurdowa at her personal site.

Roma (Gypsy) Interiors

Carlo Gianferro... Roma (Gypsy) Interiors. "...Gypsy Interiors"is a series of portraits capturing the private world of these outwardly loud, vivacious people. Here he finds a rich and profound intimacy, hidden but exhibited among antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, religious images, china, staircases and mirrors, set into large rooms or sometimes minimized in empty spaces waiting to be filled. Images of women sitting on elegant sofas or portrayed during intimate family moments, young people lounging on beds in their luxurious rooms, elders immortalized amongst their mementoes, proud faces of parents admiring their children." From Carlo Gianferro Photography.

Great Atomic Power

The Louvin Brothers... Great Atomic Power (1952, MGM K-11277 .mp3 audio 02:44).

Grace Weston Photography

Grace Weston Photography - Staged Vignettes and Photo Illustration.

Recent Acquisitions (And Some Thoughts on the Current Ark Market)

John Kane... John Kane and His Wife (Ca. 1928, Oil on canvas). From the exhibition Recent Acquisitions (And Some Thoughts on the Current Ark Market), July 7 - October 10, 2009 at Galerie St. Etienne in New York, NY. "...The Galerie St. Etienne is extremely fortunate in this year’s selection of 'Recent Acquisitions,' which include a great many works of extraordinarily high quality. We have been entrusted with the sale of a major Expressionist collection, assembled by an unusually astute buyer at a time, in the 1970s and ‘80s, when top-flight material was still readily available. Featured in our recent exhibition From Brücke to Bauhaus, this collection includes pastels and drawings by E.L. Kirchner, stunning watercolors by Lyonel Feininger, early graphics by Erich Heckel, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and much, much more. We also have available a number of strong German works from the Weimar period, including several seminal self-portraits by Max Beckmann, two exceptional Dada-inflected woodcuts by Otto Dix and a large group of George Grosz drawings."

Evil Hoodoo

The Seeds... Evil Hoodoo (.mp3 audio 05:19). From the album The Seeds (1966, GNP Crescendo GNP 2023). RIP: Sky Saxon.

Georgy Girl

Ed McMahon... Georgy Girl (.mp3 audio 02:17). From the album And Me...I'm Ed McMahon (1967, Cameo C2009) at Probe is Turning-on the People!

Manitowoc-Two Rivers History Showcased

Manitowoc-Two Rivers History Showcased at the WHS. "...The Manitowoc and Two Rivers gallery of images captures more than 150 years of life in these two cities. Factories, ships and railroads are all preserved in these images. Most importantly, they depict life on the lakeshore where various cultures merged to create two unique communities proud of their heritage.
Originally settled by a mixture of Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Menomonee and Ojibwe tribes, the lakeshore community of Manitowoc was given its name by these first inhabitants. In the Algonquin languages, "Manitou" means spirit; therefore, Manitowoc became the place of the good spirit. Manitowoc's neighbor to the north, Two Rivers, earned its moniker in acknowledgement of the two rivers that flow through the community — the East and West Twin Rivers. The photographs in this collection follow the growth of these two cities whose histories were shaped by their place alongside Lake Michigan.

Purpose 3 - l'Afrique vue par ses photographes

Purpose 3 (Autumn 2006) - l'Afrique vue par ses photographes. "...Malick Sidibé - Le photographe doit être gai | Sidi M. Sidibé - Modèles | Gabriel Fasunon - Le monde de Jebba | Paul Kabré - J'ai vécu avec les Gãeemsés | James Koblah Bruce Vanderpuije - Accra, Gold Coast, années 1930 | Photographes ambulants - Togo • Bénin • Nigeria | Guy Hersant - Le sens du lien."

Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos at Verve Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Bruce Davidson, Thomas Dworzak, Elliott Erwitt, Paul Fusco, Constantine Manos, Susan Meiselas, Steve McCurry, Eli Reed, and Alex Webb.

Blue Boy | Blue Doll

Jim Reeves... Blue Boy (1958, RCA Victor 47-7266 .mp3 audio 02:12). Also... Anita Carter - Blue Doll (Flash Video 02:14) which I posted a PCL LinkDump yesterday.

For MJ

For MJ... Shinehead... Billie Jean (1984, ALM 7005 .mp3 audio 03:02) and... Mama Used To Say (1984, ALM 7009 .mp3 audio 02:50). From April 09.

When The Levee Breaks

Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie... When The Levee Breaks (1929, Columbia 14439-D .mp3 audio 03:12).

Palomar: Experimental Photography

Palomar: Experimental Photography - works by Phil Chang, Talia Chetrit, Tamar Halpern, Nancy De Holl, Mariah Robertson, and Asha Schechter at Marvelli Gallery. "...These artists use ink-jet prints, digital c-prints, re-photographed magazines and newspapers, as well as other means of photomechanical reproduction. The resulting work always feels individually created and never succumbs to the power of technical sophistication. Some artists manipulate their images in the darkroom process (solarization, ambrotype, photograms, multiple exposures, etc.) without the use of a computer, while others almost bypass the photographic process altogether (scanning objects and found images). They push the boundaries, limits and modality of photography."

Brian Ulrich: Thrift and Dark Stores

Brian Ulrich: Thrift and Dark Stores at Julie Saul Gallery in New York, NY. "...Thrift and Dark Stores is a continuation of his larger project, Copia, a long-term photographic examination of the complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live. His prescient insight into post 9-11 consumerism boom has awarded him a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Ulrich began his Copia series after 9/11 when President Bush encouraged Americans to shop as a patriotic gesture to boost the economy. He pictured the abundant merchandise in stores and shoppers' fascination with the goods. As the decade progressed Ulrich has enlarged his theme to embrace thrift stores and finally the new landscape of closed and derelict malls and big box stores. Ulrich's image Madison, Wisconsin 2005 of a retail space filled with empty hangers signals the end of a cycle, and is pictured on the cover of the May 2009 issue of Photograph with an essay by Lyle Rexer who writes, 'Ulrich reveals the chaotic ass-end of capitalism'. Thrift looks at the 'last-stop repositories' where goods are sent to die at even more discounted prices. These chaotic dumping grounds of discarded computers and gym shoes raise the question, 'where do we go from here?' At the same time the Dark Stores have an almost apocalyptic quality signally and end a new beginning." More... Works by Brian Ulrich at his personal site.

Food, Inc.

Trailer (QuickTime Video) for Food, Inc. "...producer-director Robert Kenner and investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) lift the veil off of the food industry – an industry that has often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihoods of American farmers, the safety of workers and our own environment."