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Shepard Fairy «120!» - Retrospective

2012-02-01T20:05:00.001-06:00

Shepard Fairy «120!» - Retrospective at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery in Rome. "...Mondo Bizzarro Gallery is credited with having organised the first large Shepard Fairey exhibition in Italy, in 2011 that paid tribute to American street artists. We now offer a retrospective of works which include limited editions and unique pieces spanning from way back in 1997 up to the present day and which include over 120 pieces signed by Obey. This unmissable exhibition is a must-see for anyone who wants to get closer to the masterpieces of an ultra-contemporary artist like Shepard Fairey, who succeeds in marrying sensitivity with creative genius."

Boîtes aux lettres

2012-02-01T19:54:00.001-06:00

Boîtes aux lettres - the letter boxes of Saint-Martin-d’Abbat. (fr)

Other Bodies: A Collection of Vernacular Photography

2012-02-01T19:45:00.002-06:00

Other Bodies: A Collection of Vernacular Photography at ZieherSmith. "...65 found photographs spanning the American 20th century, celebrating its conspicuous beauty and encapsulating a lifestyle of exquisite hubris, baffling habits and poetic leisure. Focusing on the eerie and bizarre found in everyday life, including odd family units, perverse couplings of awkward figures in vaguely familiar places, and solo views of predominantly male figures, the patina of the vintage prints are often enhanced by blurring caused by misfired flash-bulbs, over and double exposures, crude processing and care-worn edges. This singular grouping invites the viewer to see a crooked world through straight and narrow eyes and 65 ostensibly unrelated (and virtually untraceable) sources reinvented as a new, fleeting narrative."

Underground: Russian Photography 1970s-1980s

2012-02-01T19:33:00.002-06:00

Gennady Bodrov... Untitled, 1988. From the exhibition Underground: Russian Photography 1970s-1980s at Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York, NY. "...During the Khrushchev’s cultural thaw, nonconformist art and literary movements, involving such figures and activities as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Josef Brodsky and samizdat, had a great impact on the evolution of Russian photography in the 1970s, and laid the foundation for a new generation of photographers during glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. Photographers in the exhibition challenged the government-prescribed optimistic style of socialist realism by photographing forbidden topics, and like other unofficial artists, they risked personal safety in pursuit for individual expression and freedom. In the 1970s, Boris Mikhailov, a pioneer of Russian conceptual photography, used the medium to reflect skepticism about both approved photography and the false realities it presented."

Another Family

2012-01-26T13:49:00.002-06:00

Lens Culture... Another Family - photographs and text by Irina Popova. "...They were living in a darkness, mixing day and night, behind the thick curtains, descending to the street only to ask for some money for the cheap alcohol (they already couldn’t buy any drugs). Their daughter was with them all the time and she was looking at all this with wide-open eyes, tried to touch and to taste everything. They fed her with expensive artificial milk, dragged her away from dangerous things, changed her diapers and said, 'Anfisa, stop. Anfisa, go to sleep!'" More... Works by Irina Popova at her personal site.

Crazy Horse

2012-01-26T13:43:00.002-06:00

From Zipporah Films... Crazy Horse by Frederick Wiseman. "...Inside Paris’s Crazy Horse cabaret – the most famous nude dance show in the world. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman explores one of the most mythic and colorful places dedicated to women, the Crazy Horse – a legendary Parisian cabaret club, founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin. Over the years it has become the Parisian nightlife ‘must’ for visitors, ranking alongside the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre." Also... Crazy Horse aka Désir at Film Forum in New York.

China Blue

2012-01-25T15:16:00.000-06:00

Lost Art... China Blue.

Joseph Sterling: 30 Years of Photographs

2012-01-19T13:56:00.001-06:00

Joseph Sterling: 30 Years of Photographs at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art. "...This exhibition of more than 25 images reveals the artist's range and embraces both the famed series, The Age of Adolescence - a documentary masterwork exposing the life and milieu of the pre-Vietnam War era American teenager - and a variety of other imagery, including important photographs from the Pictus Twistus and Bird’s Eye View series."

The Boxer

2012-01-19T13:50:00.001-06:00

Terayama Shuji... The Boxer (1977) at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...In mid-career, while he is on a winning streak, and in the middle of a fight he is winning, a young boxer is revolted by the violence of the game. He allows himself to be beaten up and quits the match and the sport. He also leaves his wife and child and lives alone with his moth-eaten old dog, all the while losing his sight. Years later, he is hunted down by a young man who is ambitious to become a prize-winning boxer. Persistence pays off, and he eventually persuades the ex-boxer to be his manager and trainer. The boy begins his rise to success, though he has a stormy relationship with his manager."

Weegee: Naked City

2012-01-18T13:26:00.002-06:00

Weegee... Girl Wearing Hat Laughing in Movie Theater (ca. 1945, vintage gelatin silver print). From the exhibition Weegee: Naked City at Steven Kasher Gallery. "...The exhibition takes its cues from the title of Weegee's first book, Naked City, which became a bestseller, made Weegee famous, and transformed him from a journalist into an artist. It was a title with many implications. The city and its citizens exposed. The bare truth. A city that fills you with hungers, lusts, passions. A city ready to frolic. A city that makes you think bad thoughts." Also... Weegee: Murder Is My Business at the ICP and Naked Hollywood: Weegee In Los Angeles at MOCA.

Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970

2012-01-18T13:22:00.001-06:00

Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970 at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. "...A key figure of the Paris avant-garde in the 1950s and ’60s, Jesús Soto (1923–2005) is widely recognized for his groundbreaking innovations in color theory, serial composition, and movement in art. Less well-known is the wide range of styles and mediums that he explored early on. Drawing inspiration from optics and serial music, Soto employed repeating geometric forms and superimposed surfaces to convey a sense of physical displacement. In deconstructing the notion of stability, Soto radically transformed the relation between object and audience. Encouraging viewers to interact physically with his work, Soto engages them as active participants in the process of perception."

Diane Arbus & August Sander

2012-01-14T13:39:00.001-06:00

Diane Arbus & August Sander at Edwynn Houk Gallery. "...Exhibiting Diane Arbus’ photographs for the first time since 1982, Edwynn Houk Gallery premiers her work in Zurich by pairing a selection of rare, vintage prints of her oeuvre with the artist she credits as her greatest influence, August Sander. Arbus first encountered Sander’s work in the Swiss magazine DU in 1960. Although both photographers achieved widespread recognition only after their deaths, they are by now firmly positioned as seminal and canonical artists within the history of photography."

Steve McCurry: Watching and Waiting

2012-01-14T13:34:00.001-06:00

Steve McCurry: Watching and Waiting at Soulcatcher Studio. "...'Most of my images are grounded in people. I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person's face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape, that you could call the human condition.'"

Sun Ra: Brother from Another Planet

2012-01-04T20:28:00.001-06:00

Sun Ra: Brother from Another Planet (2005) at UbuWeb Film & Video. Essential viewing. "...Punk film legend Don Letts presents the Sun Ra story in all its glory, combining powerful footage of Ra and his legendary Arkestra, interviews with band members shot at their famous group house in Philadelphia, and testimony from Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka, John Sinclair and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore."

Kenosha's Lost Industries: Photographs and Corporate Materials, 1850s-1990s

2012-01-04T20:00:00.001-06:00

Kenosha's Lost Industries: Photographs and Corporate Materials, 1850s-1990s. "...From the 1850s to the 1970s abundant water, a lake port, and railroad corridors crossing Kenosha and Kenosha County, Wisconsin impacted the growth of industry. Kenosha’s development was essentially connected to its strategic location on the western shore of Lake Michigan and in the urban corridor between Milwaukee and Chicago. Kenosha manufacturers gained access to cheap midwestern natural resources of iron, copper, wood, coal and water. These simple facts were the primary cause of Kenosha County’s industrialization. Larger markets were created as products reached more remote places."

Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments

2012-01-04T19:53:00.001-06:00

Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments by Jan Kempenaers at The Coolist. "...While Yugoslavia has long since dissolved, abandoned monuments remain that recall the nation’s glory in the second world war. Photographer Jan Kempenaers has traveled throughout the Balkans to photograph these wild, strange structures that have lost much of their cultural relevance. In various states of disrepair, these monuments (some buildings, other sculptures) represent an era of modern and brutalist architecture that defined this time period in the socialist East. Today, they appear alien, odd and empty, stark reminders of a struggle long since forgotten by a nation that no longer exists."

Barbara Lynn - What'd I Say

2012-01-04T19:41:00.002-06:00

Barbara Lynn - What'd I Say (Live, 1966, Flash Video 03:32). Whoa! Our new favorite old performer. Also... Barbara Lynn: Girl With Guitar at Cha Cha Charming Magazine. "...Self-accompanied on electric guitar, she possesses a style that is unique - raw, yet polished; emotional, yet calm; organic, yet sophisticated. As a live performer she is tireless, but her lifelong fear of flying has prevented her from accepting all but one offer to gig in Britain. At her sole live show in the UK, I was there to see Barbara Lynn."

New Photographers

2012-01-03T13:52:00.001-06:00

New Photographers at Danziger Projects. "...New Photographers presents five artists exhibiting in New York for the first time. The artists are not linked thematically or stylistically, but what they have in common is their distinctive approach to photography and the originality of their images. In this show, each body of work creates its own context.

In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980

2012-01-03T13:47:00.001-06:00

In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980 at the Getty Center. "...This exhibition features photographs—made between 1945 and 1980—from the Museum's collection that represent diverse responses to the city of Los Angeles as a subject and to photography as a medium for documentary and creative expression. It is loosely grouped around the themes of experimental photography, vernacular architecture, car culture, and fantasy and the film industry."

Happy New Year

2012-01-01T13:30:00.000-06:00

Here are some posts from 2011...

David Plowden... Mayetta, Kansas (1991). From Works by David Plowden at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. "...For five decades, the photographer David Plowden of Winnetka, Illinois, has documented America’s vanishing landscapes and artifacts, his stunning black and white photographs forming an image of life in 20th-century urban and rural America.
Since 1952, when he began to photograph steam locomotives, David Plowden has studied, documented, and commented upon the transformation of America. He has described himself as 'an archeologist with a camera' who has spent his life 'one step ahead of the wrecking ball.'
'I have been beset,' Plowden says, 'with a sense of urgency to record those parts of our heritage which seem to be receding as quickly as the view from the rear of a speeding train. I fear that we are eradicating the evidence of our past accomplishments so quickly that in time we may well lose the sense of who we are.'"

Lori Nix: The City at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Il. "...Working in her home/studio, Nix combines cardboard, foam, glue and paint to construct small dioramas which she then photographs with an 8 x 10” camera. Often taking up to seven months to complete, these large scale photographs of everyday places – a laundromat, bar, library, aquarium – fall victim to decay, referencing the effects of man. Using humor as her anchor, Nix’s work challenges our perceptions of reality, as she reminds us of our responsibilities."

The Real Weegee (1993) at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...This video documents the career of Arthur Fellig, whose sensationalistic photographs helped to define tabloid and legitimate news photography. By the late '30s, Fellig was freelancing as a news photographer. Specializing in the overnight shift, he quickly earned a reputation for always being one of the first to arrive at a grisly news scene, first to snap a stark flash photo of what newsroom slang labeled 'roasts' (fire victims), 'dry divers' (people jumping off buildings), or 'bottom feeders' (victims of drowning). Going by the nickname of 'Weegee,' he became famous enough that Life magazine ran a profile on him in 1937. Fellig branched out, photographing New York nightlife and its entertainments. He gained notoriety with his experiments in manipulating photographs, creating, for example, a series of distorted heads of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Picasso, and John F. Kennedy. Over his long career, Fellig immortalized on film dozens of politicians, gangsters, and movie stars."

Billy Monk... The Balalaika, December 1969 (Silver gelatin print on fibre paper). From the exhibition Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs at Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town. "...The unusual narrative of his life and work has often been related and embellished upon, and has become entwined with our perceptions of the images. In essence, he was born in 1937, and worked as a nightclub bouncer for Les Catacombs Club in Cape Town in the late 1960s when he was around 30 years of age. He later moved to the West Coast and lived in Port Nolloth periodically until his death in 1982.
Using a Pentax camera with 35mm focal-length lens, Billy Monk photographed the nightclub revellers and sold the prints to his subjects. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness. His images of nightlife seem carefree and far away from the scars and segregation of apartheid that fractured this society in the daylight."

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood... Some Velvet Morning (1967, Reprise 0651 .mp3 audio 03:37).

Lens Culture... Wastelands - photographs by Dan Dubowitz. "...Dan Dubowitz loves to travel the world in search of abandoned, decaying buildings, which are usually gasping their last breath before being demolished to make way for something new — or merely rotting away. He finds beauty in many of these spaces, and he documents them lovingly with his medium-format camera." More... Works by Dan Dubowitz at his personal site.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard... Untitled (c. 1960, Vintage gelatin silver print). From an exhibition of Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard at Gitterman Gallery in New York, NY. "...The core of this Ralph Eugene Meatyard exhibition comes from a private collection that represents the breadth and soul of Meatyard’s work. One part of the exhibition focuses on the figurative, while the other showcases the ways in which Meatyard explored beyond the traditional photographic perspective. A voracious reader, Meatyard was exceptionally curious about a range of subjects and created diverse bodies of work that he would return to throughout his life. Spirituality underlies his often haunting and complex imagery. His experience as an optician gave him knowledge about lenses and vision that informed his work as a photographer, as did his interest in philosophy, especially Zen. This exhibition includes work from several of his bodies of work, including Motion-Sound, Zen Twigs, Light on Water and Romances."

Revolutionary Film Posters: Aesthetic Experiments of Russian Constructivism, 1920-33 at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York. "...Culled from the world’s largest collection of Russian Film Posters from the great era of Constructivism, the 95 examples of the medium on view represent a unique opportunity to survey how one of the most significant movements in the early 20th Century avant-garde informed a radical graphic style that has had a dramatic influence on the development of fine art and design over many subsequent generations. Most of the work shown, though originally produced in the hundreds, constitutes the only surviving examples, and few have ever been publicly exhibited before."

Jill Freedman: Street Cops 1978-1981 at Higher Pictures. "...Jill Freedman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and has had her work published in most of the leading newspapers and magazines. Freedman's work is in over fifteen major collections including The Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, International Center of Photography, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston."

Light of Modernity in Buenos Aries, 1929-1954 at Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York. "...Modern photography emerged in Argentina between the 1930s and the early 1950s with the arrival of European artists. After emigrating from Berlin in 1926, Annemarie Heinrich initially worked as an assistant photographer, and in 1930, opened her own studio in Buenos Aires. Her world was theater, entertainment, cinema, and culture. Honing a version of glamour portraiture, Heinrich experimented with fragmentation and multiple exposures (Caprices Anita Grim, 1938) as well as the metaphors and optical games of surrealist inheritance (Self-portrait with Children, 1947)."

The Bedwells... Karate b/w Karate Again (1963, Del-Fi 4230 .mp3 audio 02:23 and 02:20). From Probe is Turning-on the People!

Vivian Maier

2011-12-29T13:56:00.001-06:00

Vivian Maier at Steven Kasher Gallery. "...Maier, whose day job was as a nanny, took over 100,000 distinctive street photographs, mostly in New York City and Chicago, yet showed the results to no one. This is a startling posthumous discovery of a major photographer, ranking with those of E. J. Bellocq and Mike Disfarmer. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication: Vivian Maier: Street Photographer (powerHouse Books, 2011), foreword by Geoff Dyer.
What makes Maier unique is that her pictures were made for no one, not even herself. They weren't printed at all. They are pure witness. She records but never plays back. Her pictures have no intention but to represent what her curiosity and her feelings demand. That demand must have been pressing indeed, to generate so much meticulous work."

Bill Brand: Four Films

2011-12-29T13:31:00.001-06:00

Bill Brand: Four Films at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...Bill Brand's experimental films and videos have screened extensively since 1973 in the US and abroad in museums, festivals and independent film showcases. His feature documentary Home Less Home has been seen worldwide on television and was featured at major film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and New Directors/ New Films Festival. His 1980 Masstransiscope, a mural installed in the subway system of New York City which is animated by the movement of passing trains, is a widely regarded work of public art."

Light Painting by Doze Green

2011-12-29T13:28:00.001-06:00

Light Painting by Doze Green at Lost Art. More... Works by Doze Green at his personal site.

Black Francis Scores The Golem

2011-12-23T16:39:00.002-06:00

Black Francis Scores The Golem. "...The 2008 edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival commissioned Francis to create and perform a live score to Paul Wegener's 1920 silent film The Golem, which he did, though chances to see the film with the Francis score have been scarce since. Not any more."

This Is The Thanks I Get

2011-12-23T16:24:00.002-06:00

Barbara Lynn... This Is The Thanks I Get (1968, Atlantic 45-2450 .mp3 audio 02:24).

Spaceman

2011-12-20T13:39:00.002-06:00

Harry Nilsson... Spaceman (1972, RCA Victor–74-0788 .mp3 audio 03:30).

American History Through Christmas Cards (updated)

2011-12-20T13:33:00.000-06:00

Updated... American History Through Christmas Cards at the WHS. "...Americans have been exchanging holiday cards for more than 150 years, and thousands of them have made their way into correspondence donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society. For the last several decades, archivists have set aside especially beautiful or evocative cards in a separate collection that now fills eight large boxes. This year, just in time for the holidays, they have scanned and posted more than 200 of the most interesting Christmas cards online."

Beverly Buchanan: Home Place

2011-12-09T20:29:00.001-06:00

Beverly Buchanan: Home Place at Barbara Archer Gallery. "...Beverly Buchanan's drawings and sculptures celebrate the rural architecture of poverty she knew while growing up in the American South. Reminiscent of sharecropper shacks, her structures challenge our ideas of hopelessness. Instead they salute integrity, resilience and resourcefulness. Buchanan's "shacks" represent many kinds of domestic architecture, either occupied or abandoned. As a talented story-teller, her work evokes the human stories behind the architecture she depicts, creating richly expressive works of art that symbolize the power of community."

Cold War Era Polish Neon

2011-12-09T15:32:00.003-06:00

Ilona Karwinska... Cold War Era Polish Neon. "...Karwinska has extensively researched the history of neon, photographing, documenting and recording original schematics & blueprints as well as uncovering never-before-seen archival photography of many Cold War Era Polish city streets - alight with dazzling socialist messages and whimsical neon designs." Also... The Neon Muzeum Warsaw.

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi

2011-12-09T13:51:00.003-06:00

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. "...the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar."

An Evening with Quentin Crisp

2011-12-08T16:07:00.000-06:00

An Evening with Quentin Crisp (1979) at UbuWeb Sound (Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, New York on February 22, 1979).

Odo Yakuza Tokyo

2011-12-08T16:03:00.001-06:00

Anton Kusters... Odo Yakuza Tokyo. "...a personal visual account of the life inside an inaccessible subculture – a traditional Japanese crime family that controls the streets of Kabukicho, in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Through many months of delicate preparations and negotiations by his brother Malik, their fixer Taka-san, and photographer Anton Kusters, the duo became the only westerners ever to be granted this kind of access to that closed world. With a mix of photography, film, writing and graphic design, Anton tries to share not only their extremely complex relationship to Japanese society, but also to show the personal struggle that each family member faces – being forced to live in two different worlds at the same time; worlds that often have conflicting morals and values." Thank you, Bem.

Vidya Gastaldon: Crazy, cruel & full of love

2011-12-02T20:02:00.002-06:00

Vidya Gastaldon: Crazy, cruel & full of love at Gallery Guy Bärtschi in Geneva.

Teenage Mojo Workout

2011-12-02T19:45:00.003-06:00

The 5.6.7.8's... Teenage Mojo Workout (2002, Time Bomb Records – BOMBCD 68 .mp3 audio 02:54).

Machiel Botman: One Tree

2011-12-02T13:36:00.002-06:00

Machiel Botman: One Tree, December 14, 2011 - February 18, 2012 at Gitterman Gallery.

John Cage Centenary (2012)

2011-12-02T13:31:00.001-06:00

John Cage Centenary (2012) at UbuWeb. "...In preparation for the hundred-year anniversary of John Cage's birth, we've quietly been beefing up Cage's audio and films. In particular, we've just added a number of lectures, interviews, and Q&A's with Cage, recorded between 1969 and 1991. There are also several of papers written on John Cage in UbuWeb Papers, as well as a variety of works of his in UbuWeb's Historical section. In fact, there's so much John Cage on Ubu's site that we can't keep up with it."

Arnold Kramer: Interior Views 1977 Online Exhibition

2011-11-25T20:24:00.002-06:00

Arnold Kramer: Interior Views 1977 Online Exhibition at Joseph Bellows Gallery. "...The photographs in this exhibition were begun early in 1977. The idea for their subject dates originally to a recurring image formed in childhood of a particular room - a solarium in his paternal grandparents' house in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he felt always a sense of comfortableness and heightened sensitivity to light and the particularity of objects. When he moved ten years ago to Washington, Kramer rented an apartment on Capitol Hill that reminded him of this solarium."

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

2011-11-23T13:58:00.002-06:00

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 at The Jewish Museum in New York, NY. "...In 1936 a group of young, idealistic photographers, most of them Jewish, first-generation Americans, formed an organization in Manhattan called the Photo League. Their solidarity centered on a belief in the expressive power of the documentary photograph and on a progressive alliance in the 1930s of socialist ideas and art. The Radical Camera presents the contested path of the documentary photograph during a tumultuous period that spanned the New Deal reforms of the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War."

Cranberry Farming in Wisconsin

2011-11-23T13:44:00.001-06:00

Cranberry Farming in Wisconsin at the WHS. "...Wisconsin played a key role in making the humble cranberry an American icon. Cranberries have been grown commercially here for more than 150 years. As in New England, American Indians introduced the first settlers to the virtues of the tart red berry. This month's gallery of historic images from the Society's visual archives presents more than 130 pictures of cranberry growing, harvesting and advertising through the decades. So as you wait for your cranberry Jell-O to set this week, take a break and explore where it all started."

CJ Pyle: Skin Deep - New Drawings

2011-11-23T13:40:00.001-06:00

CJ Pyle: Skin Deep - New Drawings at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, IL. "...Stretching the boundaries of his inimitable, self-defined 'woven knot drawing technique', the artist's range of exploration, both in form and content, seems to get even more to the heart of a meaningful and universal consideration of what it is to be Human. A key element in that consideration is Pyle's recognition of society's preoccupation with making judgments about people based on outward, physical appearance, coupled, as well, with its misunderstanding of the concept of beauty itself. His is not a portrayal which defines the canons of beauty found in popular culture's use of the term, nor does it extoll the glibness of its oracles."

Osgemeos: Fermata

2011-11-19T13:51:00.001-06:00

Lost Art proudly presents... Osgemeos: Fermata. "...Nossos amig’osgemeos se superaram novamente. A exposição no Museu Vale ficou realmente espetacular e merece ser vista ao vivo." (br)

Todd Haynes: Dottie Gets Spanked

2011-11-19T13:37:00.001-06:00

Todd Haynes: Dottie Gets Spanked (1993) at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...Made between Safe and Poison, Dottie Gets Spanked is a strange, affectionate rumination on childhood sexuality, fantasy and repression, featuring a possible stand-in for Haynes as a young boy. The boy, Steven, is fixated on two things: spanking and a TV comedienne named Dottie. His obsessions come full-circle as he visit the set of The Dottie Show and witnesses Dottie being spanked theatrically during a comedy routine. The film is short, made for TV, but packs an emotional wallop, with stilted, dark dream sequences of Steven’s guilty pleasure."

Lynne Cohen: Occupied Territory

2011-11-16T13:48:00.001-06:00

Lynne Cohen: Occupied Territory at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago, IL. "...Lynne Cohen has been photographing empty – family rooms, offices, laboratories, and other built environments since the early 1970s. For over forty years she has been driven by one question more than any other – what are these places without people in them? Looking at images of shag carpeted dens, vinyl siding show rooms, corporate lobbies, we are pressed to ponder her question and to wonder – do these rooms retain their purpose without us?" More... Works by Lynne Cohen at her personal site.

These Americans

2011-11-15T13:37:00.003-06:00

Russ Meyer's Bosomania, Linda Vaughn - Miss Golden Shifter, Photobooth, and so much more at These Americans. Absolutely essential!

Jamie

2011-11-15T13:32:00.000-06:00

Happy Birthday to my son Jamie - 16 years old yesterday.

As Tears Go By

2011-11-09T20:45:00.001-06:00

Naomi And The Boys... As Tears Go By (Singapore, Philips, EP .mp3 audio 01:49).

Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939

2011-11-09T20:31:00.001-06:00

Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939 at the Getty Center. "...Painter, printmaker, and draftsman Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) was one of the first masters appointed to teach at the Bauhaus, the innovative school for art, design, and architecture established by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. Like many other figures at the Bauhaus, Feininger turned to photography as a tool for visual exploration. Beginning in 1928 and for the next decade, he used the camera to explore transparency, reflection, night imagery, and the effects of light and shadow. This exhibition offers the first opportunity to consider the origins of Feininger's photographic work at the Bauhaus and its development over a decade, expanding our understanding both of him as an artist and of the history of Modernist photography. A selection of photographs made by other Bauhaus masters and students, drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum's permanent collection, complements Feininger's work and provides a context to better appreciate his engagement with the medium."

Karate | Karate Again

2011-11-09T19:56:00.002-06:00

The Bedwells... Karate b/w Karate Again (1963, Del-Fi 4230 .mp3 audio 02:23 and 02:20). From Probe is Turning-on the People!

Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers

2011-11-09T13:51:00.001-06:00

Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers at Ubu Gallery in New York, NY. "...The Love Life of the Spumifers, or La Vie amoureuse des Spumifères, combines Surrealist poetry’s fascination with l’amour and Dada’s tendency towards deliberate grammatical spontaneity and absurdity. Words like bowoodling, friskadoodling and alabamaraminating are concocted by Hugnet to describe the seductive strategies of his imaginary creatures. Each text is dedicated to a different creature, describing how it woos, teases, gropes and molests its intended love conquest. Each Spumifer is illustrated by a gouache 'beast,' which is added to an early Twentieth Century vintage “French” photo postcard. The mellifluously painted monsters slyly slither around the bare flesh of the pictured “mademoiselle,” nibbling and tickling, arousing her sexual desire. Hugnet’s illustrations seduce the viewer, parodying the human pursuit of love and lovemaking through these adorable grotesques."

Michael Wolf: Tokyo Compression

2011-11-09T13:42:00.003-06:00

Michael Wolf: Tokyo Compression. "...Before Michael Wolf other artists have created subway series, among them famous names such as Bruce Davidson and Walker Evans, the concept as well as the metonymy of 'Compression' however is new. Michael Wolf is not interested in seat cushions, graffiti, interior architecture or the traveler’s relation to that. He rather discovered the subway system as suitable place in order to investigate mental state and aggregate condition of the city people. Wolf leaves out all accessories, focuses just faces and figures. With his radical aesthetics he creates enormously intensive pictures that in a distressing, yes shocking manner directly aim into the portrayed people’s inner life."

Don Wallen: An American Still Life

2011-11-08T13:53:00.002-06:00

Don Wallen: An American Still Life at the University of Washington Digital Collections. "...n 1978, after a year as chief photographer for the Seattle Weekly, Wallen decided to dedicate himself to freelance work. He became photo editor for the Seattle Gay News, and was a contributing photographer to several magazines including Drummer, In Touch and the Advocate. Editors, publishers, and fellow photographers alike have praised Wallen as one of the very best in the business, and his award-winning work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country.
Don Wallen died of AIDS-related complications on November 16, 1997, leaving behind a body of work he once characterized as "An American Still Life." Indeed, life itself was his theme. Whether he was shooting flea markets or street protests, Seattle drag queens or the bathtub of author Tom Robbins, Wallen was concerned only with capturing the truth in each moment. He offered no easy insight into the meaning of his work, preferring instead to relinquish the task of interpretation to the individual."

Philipp Scholz Rittermann: The Emperor’s River, Photographing Along China’s Grand Canal

2011-11-08T13:42:00.002-06:00

Philipp Scholz Rittermann: The Emperor’s River, Photographing Along China’s Grand Canal at Scott Nichols Gallery. "...In 2009, Philipp Scholz Rittermann travelled to China to photograph the country’s development along the Grand Canal, the world’s oldest and longest man-made canal. Over 2000 years old, the canal runs more than 1000 miles connecting Beijing in the north and Hangzhou in the south. Rittermann documents the human, industrial and natural landscapes of this rapidly developing country. The photographs take you down the canal contrasting the rural terrain and growing urbanization; uninhabited skyscrapers tower over village markets, coal towers dominate relaxing evening views and young men in modern attire pose before ancient statues. These large-scale high resolution panoramic images have been described as visual poetry." More... Works by Philipp Scholz Rittermann at his personal site.

Pinky's Dream

2011-11-08T13:24:00.002-06:00

David Lynch (featuring Karen O)... Pinky's Dream (.mp3 audio 04:00). From the album Crazy Clown Time (2011, Sunday Best Recordings/PIAS).

Iraq Perspectives: Photographs by Benjamin Lowy

2011-11-04T13:58:00.000-05:00

Iraq Perspectives: Photographs by Benjamin Lowy. "...Lowy’s powerful and arresting color photographs taken through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as the tension and anxiety of both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. To photograph on the streets unprotected was impossible for Lowy, so he came up with the brilliant approach of making images that illuminate this difficulty by shooting through the windows and goggles meant to help him, and soldiers, to see. In doing so he provides us with a new way of looking at the war—an entirely different framework for regarding and thinking about the everyday activities of Iraqis in a devastated landscape and the movements of soldiers on patrol, as well as the alarm and apprehension of nighttime raids."

Photographs by Gary Briechle

2011-11-04T13:47:00.001-05:00

Photographs by Gary Briechle at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, IL. "...The wrinkle of an aging hand; the piercing eyes of a young girl at the edge of puberty; the solitude of a young man resting his head along the water’s edge -- these are some of the quiet moments captured by Gary Briechle, who makes Collodion wet-plate enlargements of his family, friends and strangers in the small towns and rugged terrain that hug the Maine coast."

Jablonka Pasquer Projects 'Japan 4'

2011-11-03T13:55:00.002-05:00

Jablonka Pasquer Projects 'Japan 4' at Galerie Priska Pasquer in Cologne. Works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Yutaka Takanashi and Shomei Tomatsu.

Jeff Brouws: The Machine In The Garden, Recent Photographs, 2009-2011

2011-11-03T13:38:00.002-05:00

Jeff Brouws: The Machine In The Garden, Recent Photographs, 2009-2011 at Robert Mann Gallery. "...Jeff Brouws began a body of work in which he investigates the forgotten legacy of the numerous competing railroads servicing Dutchess County in Upstate New York during the late 19th Century and into the first-third of the 20th. With The Machine in the Garden, Brouws masterfully shines a light on the vicissitudes of capital that govern the successive layers — material and psychological — of economic and cultural infrastructure. And indeed the railroad is a cultural phenomenon as much as anything else: as the dominant mechanism of growth and development in the 19th Century, it fundamentally determined the way that people and communities related to one another. Like nothing that came before, the railroad restructured the modern organization of time and space. And yet that time would seem to have passed." More... Works by Jeff Brouws at his personal site.

Lumière and Company

2011-11-03T13:35:00.002-05:00

Lumière and Company (1995) - works by David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, and Wim Wenders at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...Lumière and Company (1995, original title "Lumière et compagnie") was a collaboration between 41 international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers. Shorts were edited in-camera and abided by three rules: A short may be no longer than 52 seconds, no synchronized sound, and no more than three takes."

Italian Pop Surrealism: Birth Of A Nation

2011-10-26T14:07:00.003-05:00

Dilka... Pomgranate (2011, Acrylic on wood). From the exhibition Italian Pop Surrealism: Birth Of A Nation at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery. "...Born with the not so appreciated label of Low Brow (to keep the distances from an art realized by and for an élite), Pop Surrealism makes us aware of a small but extremely significant revolution. It’s the artist himself (and the audience) that understands the reality in which we live in and gives us a new kind of imagery that appears as never seen before, but carries a deep link to our subconscious through the use of allegorical visions common to our collective brain."

The Cake Lady Returns: New Work by Mary Lou Zelazny

2011-10-26T13:52:00.002-05:00

The Cake Lady Returns: New Work by Mary Lou Zelazny at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, IL. "...The Cake Lady Returns’ primary subjects are nearly always females posturing ambiguously, almost supernaturally, standing powerfully yet motherly, softening and juxtaposing any context in which we see them. All the while that the focus seems to lead us in the direction of rethinking the clichés of romance, surrealism and pictorialism; Zelazny surreptitiously reveals herself afresh through a barrage of new and seemingly disparate images. Great satisfaction is derived in viewing these works when the perfect, unexpected visual element or lost piece of the puzzle is found and made to be a part of the greater whole. From the tension and movement of all of the elements, both visual and thematic, and in the complexity of their reassembly, we become enlightened by a realization of the artist’s vision and passion." More... Works by Mary Lou Zelazny at her personal site.

Marcus Bleasdale

2011-10-25T13:35:00.002-05:00

Marcus Bleasdale at Anastasia Photo in New York. "...Marcus Bleasdale is one of the world’s leading documentary photographers and has been honored by Photo District News (PDN) as amongst the most iconic photographers of the 21st century. Once a prominent investment banker, Bleasdale swapped derivatives for a camera to document the horrors of war. Marcus has worked over ten years covering the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His work there has highlighted the reasons behind, and the devastating effects of, the conflict on the Congolese population." More... Works by Marcus Bleasdale at his personal site.

Kyle

2011-10-25T13:18:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday to my son Kyle - 14 years old today.

Jerry Siegel: Geraldine

2011-10-22T14:08:00.003-05:00

Jerry Siegel: Geraldine at Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta, GA. "...Alabama-based photographer Jerry Siegel explores identity and self-image in this compelling portrait series of Geraldine. Both artist and subject challenge the viewer to consider the choices we make in our appearance when we present ourselves to the world each day. In Geraldine's case, her persona is deliberately bold and fanciful, yet she remains undaunted by how others might perceive her."

Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects

2011-10-22T14:03:00.000-05:00

Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects at MoMA. "...Talk to Me explores the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or appearance. In some cases, objects like cell phones and computers exist to provide us with access to complex systems and networks, behaving as gateways and interpreters. Whether openly and actively, or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us, and designers help us develop and improvise the dialogue.

Surfland - Photographs by Joni Sternbach

2011-10-18T14:03:00.001-05:00

Surfland - Photographs by Joni Sternbach. "...Surfland is an ongoing project of contemporary portraits of surfers created using the historic wet-plate collodion process. This very labor-intensive process has changed little since its invention in the 1850s. The photographs are a unique blending of subject matter and photographic technique. Part craft and part theatre, the instantaneous wet-plate collodion process allows Sternbach to create one-of-a-kind tintypes that are imbued with a feeling of ambiguity, timelessness and mystery."

Drawing The Line: Japanese American Art, Design and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles

2011-10-18T13:58:00.001-05:00

Drawing The Line: Japanese American Art, Design and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles at the Japanese American National Museum. "...A survey of the dynamic and diverse Japanese American contributions ot the visual landscape of L.A. in the period following World War II. Works of art and historic documents—together with texts, images, and video clips from extensive oral histories—will illustrate the delicate line that exists between form and function."

Andy Warhol: Paintings from the 1970's

2011-10-18T13:53:00.001-05:00

Andy Warhol: Paintings from the 1970's at Skarstedt Gallery. "...Skarstedt Gallery is pleased to present a selection of paintings by Andy Warhol from the 1970’s. Despite the commerciality associated with some of Warhol’s works from the seventies, amassed in this show is a group of works which touch upon what Warhol did best, the abstract Oxidations and Shadows, and the iconic Ladies and Gentlemen, Mao and Russell Means."

L'Oeil Moderne - photographs by Edvard Munch

2011-10-18T13:44:00.001-05:00

Lens Culture... L'Oeil Moderne - photographs by Edvard Munch. "...Like many of the painters in the beginning of the 20th century, Edvard Munch took photographs for inspiration. An essential part of a new traveling exhibition, Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye, deals with Munch's experimental photographic art. His photos are presented as independent works of art, together with the artist's experiments with film from the late 1920s."

Light of Modernity in Buenos Aries, 1929-1954

2011-10-15T13:59:00.001-05:00

Light of Modernity in Buenos Aries, 1929-1954 at Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York. "...Modern photography emerged in Argentina between the 1930s and the early 1950s with the arrival of European artists. After emigrating from Berlin in 1926, Annemarie Heinrich initially worked as an assistant photographer, and in 1930, opened her own studio in Buenos Aires. Her world was theater, entertainment, cinema, and culture. Honing a version of glamour portraiture, Heinrich experimented with fragmentation and multiple exposures (Caprices Anita Grim, 1938) as well as the metaphors and optical games of surrealist inheritance (Self-portrait with Children, 1947)."

GUTAI - Japanese Performance Art, 1956-1970

2011-10-15T13:55:00.001-05:00

GUTAI - Japanese Performance Art, 1956-1970 at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...'Gutai art does not alter matter; it gives matter life... In Gutai art, the human spirit and matter, opposed as they are, shake hands... My respect goes out to the works of Pollock and Mathieu. Their works are the cries uttered by matter: by oil paint and enamel themselves.' (Yoshihara, Gutai manifesto, 1956)."

Chatti Mouth/Threat to Creation

2011-10-13T20:43:00.001-05:00

Creation Rebel... Chatti Mouth/Threat to Creation (1981, Statik Records – STAT LP4 .mp3 audio 07:44). Produced by Adrian Sherwood. Turn up the bass!

Raymond Meeks: Amwell | Continuum

2011-10-11T13:48:00.002-05:00

Raymond Meeks... Abbey, Ann, 08.21.11 (2011, Gelatin silver print toned in selenium, Signed, titled, dated and editioned in pencil on verso). From the exhibition Raymond Meeks: Amwell | Continuum at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art. "...In evocative black and white and color images, Meeks explores ideas of home and stability against the backdrop of personal transition and larger socioeconomic upheaval. These quietly compelling, beautiful photographs of lost and troubled spaces, constant gardens, and portraits of his daughter, construct a narrative that posits a sense of loss while steadfastly asserting a belief in both resilience and hope. Meeks writes, 'I've believed it was important to have a strong sense of place, to identify 'home', even as for us, home, family and place are ideals which have taken on a relative meaning. I photograph close to home as memory loses structure, its architecture; trying to make light speak from the fixed edges of rooms long vanished.'"

Sheying: Shades of China, 1850-1900

2011-10-11T13:32:00.001-05:00

Sheying: Shades of China, 1850-1900 at Throckmorton Fine Art. "...The Forty photographs to be exhibited are part of a collection of seventy-nine works collected over several decades by Spencer Throckmorton. The images are all albumen prints; most measure six by nine inches. The photographs have recently returned from Spain, where they were exhibited to acclaim. A handsome book, in English, and edited by Clark Worswick, accompanied the exhibition of the photographs also entitled, Sheying: Shades of China 1850-1900. The exhibit includes photographs by the pre-eminent European photographers of China: John Thomson, Milton Miller, and Antonio Beato."

Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life

2011-10-11T13:24:00.001-05:00

Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU. "...A truly international network of artists, composers, and designers that developed in the 1960s, Fluxus resists categorization as an art movement, collective, or group. It also defies traditional geographical, chronological, and medium-based approaches. Rather, Fluxus participants embrace a 'do-it-yourself' mentality, fashioning their activities from quotidian experiences and blurring the boundaries between art and life. George Maciunas, Fluxus’s Lithuanian-born instigator, envisioned art as social process. He and other Fluxus artists created works that celebrate collaboration, the ephemeral, and the everyday—often inflected with a touch of playful anarchy. Aiming to circumvent both conventional aesthetics and the commercial art world, they urged both their colleagues and the public to approach life with a Fluxus attitude."

Ruined Polaroids

2011-10-05T13:51:00.001-05:00

Lens Culture... Ruined Polaroids - photographs and text by William Miller. "...These pictures are taken with a camera that is, by most definitions, broken: an old Polaroid SX-70 camera rescued from a yard sale. I've always loved this camera. It is an ingeniously conceived, complicated bundle of gears and switches with hundreds of moving parts packed in tight like a chrome and leather pistol."

George Tice: Seldom Seen

2011-10-04T13:49:00.003-05:00

George Tice... James Dean's Motorcycle (Winslow Farm, Fairmount, IN, 1985). From the exhibition George Tice: Seldom Seen at Danziger Projects.

The Civil War Sketches of Alexander Simplot

2011-10-04T13:40:00.001-05:00

The Civil War Sketches of Alexander Simplot at the WHS. "...If asked to picture a scene from the Civil War, most Americans would probably imagine an iconic black-and-white photograph by Matthew Brady. But during the war very few people were able to see photographs like those because printers had no way to include them in newspapers and magazines. Instead, Americans saw engravings of drawings made by artists in the field. Artists sent hand-drawn sketches from the front to be engraved line-by-line on metal plates, which could be printed on paper alongside text. Periodicals such as Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly brought thousands of Civil War scenes into American homes. This gallery features dozens of original drawings and sketches by one of those artists, Alexander Simplot (1837-1914), who worked as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly during the first half of the war."

Andrei's Artistic Automobiles

2011-09-30T13:55:00.004-05:00

Folk Art/Outsider Art Cars at Andrei's Artistic Automobiles. "...Born in Romania and raised from birth in an orphanage, Andrei Palmer arrived in the US at age 6. His parents immediately recognized his artistic bent. Andrei has always viewed the world in a unique way. Excelling in painting, sculpture, and pottery, Andrei found his niche in creating cars made from such found items as cardboard, blister-packaging plastic, Christmas lights, and many others. Now 23, Andrei is a self-taught artist known for the vivid interpretation of his vision. His folk art cars include classics such as Rolls Royce, DeLorean, and Lincoln automobiles as well as utilitarian vehicles like the Peterbilt truck, cement mixer, and hearse."

Meatyard

2011-09-29T14:19:00.001-05:00

Photographing The Mexican Revolution

2011-09-27T13:53:00.000-05:00

Photographing The Mexican Revolution by John Mraz at Zone Zero.

The Super-8 Years With Tuxedomoon

2011-09-27T13:48:00.001-05:00

The Super-8 Years With Tuxedomoon at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...The entire span of every era of the much beloved and legendary Tuxedomoon - from their early beginnings in San Francisco through their many years in Europe. Impressionistically filmed in both grainy black & white and psychedelic color, by group co-founder Steven Brown. Fits together like a perfect 15-year dream."

The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl

2011-09-27T13:44:00.000-05:00

More Mingering Mike. This time at The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. "...the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record's transformative power from the 1960s to the present.Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video and performance, The Record combines contemporary art with outsider art, audio with visual, and fine art with popular culture.The exhibition features 99 works by 41 artists, including rising stars in the contemporary art world (William Cordova, Robin Rhode, Dario Robleto), outsider artists (Mingering Mike), well-established artists (Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Carrie Mae Weems) and artists whose work will be shown in a U.S. museum for the first time (Kevin Ei-ichi deForest, Jeroen Diepenmaat, Taiyo Kimura, Lyota Yagi)."

Dalton M. Ghetti

2011-09-23T13:46:00.004-05:00

Pencil sculptures by Dalton M. Ghetti.

Mingering Mike

2011-09-23T13:42:00.001-05:00

Mingering Mike. "...Between 1968 and 1977 Mingering Mike recorded over fifty albums, managed thirty-five of his own record labels, and produced, directed and starred in nine of his own motion pictures. In 1972 alone he released fifteen LPs and over twenty singles, and his traveling revue played for sold out crowds the world over.How is it that such a prolific musician has gone under the radar for the more than thirty years? The answer is that it all took place in Mike's imagination, and in the vast collection of fake cardboard records and acapella home recordings that he made for himself as a teenager in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s." Also... The Search for Mingering Mike at NPR.

Pieter Hugo: Permanent Error

2011-09-13T11:35:00.000-05:00

Pieter Hugo: Permanent Error at Yossi Milo Gallery. "...Pieter Hugo’s new series, Permanent Error, depicts Agbogbloshie, a massive dump site for technological waste on the outskirts of Ghana’s capital city, and the locals who burn down the components to extract bits of copper, brass, aluminum and zinc for resale. Tons of outdated and broken computers, computer games, mobile phones and other e-waste are shipped to the area as 'donations' from the West, under the guise of providing technology to developing countries. Rather than helping to bridge the digital divide, the equipment is transformed into noxious trash threatening the health of the area’s inhabitants and contaminating the water and soil."

Elijah Gowin: Into The Sun

2011-09-13T11:31:00.001-05:00

Elijah Gowin: Into The Sun at Robert Mann Gallery in New York. "...n this series Gowin has transgressed one of the most basic guidelines of photography, and of the gift of sight more generally by looking directly into the sun. To look in this direction is to seek communion with its faraway, generative force. At the same time it is an act that courts blindness, as the capacity for vision potentially self-ignites under its own ambition, like Icarus's melted wings. The eternal light source is that which enlivens our world generally, and which enables photography's particular art. Gowin's images reach towards the transformative and the transcendental."

Self Reflections: The Expressionist Origins of Lisette Model

2011-09-06T11:31:00.002-05:00

Otto Dix... Leonie (1923, Color Lithograph printed from two stones - carmine and green). From the exhibition Self Reflections: The Expressionist Origins of Lisette Model at Bruce Silverstein Gallery.

Lori Grinker: Distant Relations

2011-09-06T11:15:00.002-05:00

Lori Grinker: Distant Relations at Nailya Alexander Gallery. "...Using medium format color film, Grinker chronicles her family’s diaspora with landscapes, portraiture, and interiors. Concentrating more on particular environments than people and practices, her landscapes and interiors focus on the atmosphere of the place. These fragmentary images stir the viewer’s memory and emotions and trigger wonder about our journey in life. Dr. Roy Richard Grinker, Lori’s cousin and a professor of Anthropology at The George Washington University, calls these carefully composed images 'an absent presence,' and George Slade, former curator at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University speaks about them 'constructing moments in which absence is a salient property and memory seems to be in the process of taking hold.' Grinker embeds philosophical questions within quotidian events, endowing personal stories with broader meanings of other peoples’ cultural identity, geographic belonging and life-world rootedness. The present show is only the first chapter of Grinker’s search. Future work will take place in Argentina, Israel, the United Kingdom and Germany, reconnecting the family and forging links between past and present." More... Works by Lori Grinker at her personal site.

Edward Steichen: The Last Printing

2011-09-06T11:12:00.001-05:00

Edward Steichen: The Last Printing at Danziger Projects. "...84 Edward Steichen photographs printed by the renowned photographer George Tice. Tice was the last person to print for Steichen in his lifetime. These prints not only remind us of Steichen's genius but also highlight the formidable quality of printing that George Tice has been known for throughout his career."

Attack The Block

2011-09-01T13:44:00.002-05:00

Trailer (Flash Video 02:06) for Attack The Block.

Der Dada

2011-09-01T13:40:00.001-05:00

Der Dada at UbuWeb: Historical. Edited by Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, and George Grosz. 1919-1920. 3 Numbers.

Miroslav Tichý: Sun Screen

2011-08-25T16:00:00.003-05:00

Miroslav Tichý: Sun Screen at Horton Gallery in New York, NY. "...a solo exhibition of photographs by Czech artist, Miroslav Tichý. The unashamedly voyeuristic photographs in this exhibition, shot with one of the artist’s homemade cameras, feature the traditional subject matter of women bathers. In the accompanying essay for this exhibition, Allan Doyle writes that Tichý’s photographs of bathing women 'evidence a paradoxical coupling of intention and accident.' Doyle writes on the importance of Tichý’s process as a photographer:
'Tichý’s technique harkens back to the moment of photography’s birth, particularly bringing to mind the early ‘sun pictures’ of the inventor of the medium, Henry Fox Talbot. Marked by the irregularities of an experimental process, each of Talbot’s paper negative prints were a singular result of a technology that had not yet shed its alchemical origins. The preparing, exposing, bathing, washing and rinsing of the prints were as important in the making of a photograph as the opening and closing of the shutter. Tichý’s improvisational darkroom technique recovers this irreducibly material, impure origin of photography itself. Like Talbot’s salted paper prints, each Tichý photograph is a unique entity whose beauty bears witness to the vicissitudes of duration; the temporal register of his work is not that of a perfect, punctual moment but of a palimpsest of circumstance.'" Also... Miroslav Tichý - "Tarzan Retired" (Flash Video 04:54) - the trailer for the documentary.

Adolf Hoeffler's Pencil Sketches of 1852 Wisconsin

2011-08-25T15:57:00.000-05:00

Adolf Hoeffler's Pencil Sketches of 1852 Wisconsin at the WHS. "...This compelling collection of 16 pencil sketches depicting the early settlement landscape of southern Wisconsin is the work of German-born artist Adolf Hoeffler, who painted, drew and etched German, Italian and American landscapes. He made these detailed and lovely sketches in 1852. They provide a glimpse of the southern Wisconsin oak savannah that was then the most common landscape but today is nearly nonexistent due to human settlement, agriculture and fire suppression.
Depictions in the drawings include Madison, the Milwaukee harbor, Arena, Cross Plains, Lake Kegonsa, Giles Court House, and Spirit (or Devil's) Lake. There are also depictions of the Mississippi River and Fort Snelling, Minnesota. The detailed pencil drawings usually show a sweeping expanse of landscape with the human-built environment diminutively enfolded within it but they also include closer studies of oak trees in the savannah setting. These vivid and compelling landscapes invite the viewer to imagine stepping into the majestic scenery of the past."

Vivian Maier

2011-08-24T20:29:00.002-05:00

Vivian Maier... Untitled (August 12, 1954, New York, NY). From the gallery New York 1 by Vivian Maier.

Chema Madoz Fotógrafo

2011-08-24T20:22:00.002-05:00

Chema Madoz Fotógrafo - Works by Chema Madoz.

T. Enami

2011-08-24T20:05:00.003-05:00

T. Enami (江南信國 Enami Nobukuni, 1859–1929) was the trade name of a Meiji period Japanese photographer. The T. of his trade name is thought to have stood for Toshi, though he never spelled it out on any personal or business document. Born in Edo (now Tokyo) during the Bakumatsu Era, Enami was first a student of, and then an assistant to the well known photographer and collotypist, Ogawa Kazumasa. Enami relocated to Yokohama, and opened a studio on Benten-dori in 1892. Just a few doors away from him was the studio of the already well known Tamamura Kozaburo. He and Enami would work together on at least three related projects over the years." Thank you, Bem.

Jill Freedman: Street Cops 1978-1981

2011-08-24T20:00:00.001-05:00

Jill Freedman: Street Cops 1978-1981 at Higher Pictures. "...Jill Freedman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and has had her work published in most of the leading newspapers and magazines. Freedman's work is in over fifteen major collections including The Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, International Center of Photography, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston."

Frank A. Rinehart: Photographs

2011-08-18T13:45:00.002-05:00

Frank A. Rinehart... Chief Sitting Bull (Sioux, n.d., Vintage platinum print). From the exhibition Frank A. Rinehart: Photographs at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art.

The Brothers

2011-08-18T13:37:00.002-05:00

Lens Culture... The Brothers - photographs by Elin Høyland. "...Two elderly brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, who lived together in Tessanden, a small hamlet in rural Norway, preferred to share their days and years isolated from much of the rest of the world. They chose, instead, to live in a humble, old-fashioned manner, enjoying nature and each other's quiet company. Norwegian photographer, Elin Høyland, befriended the brothers, and with their permission, photographed them in their daily routines over the course of several years." More... Works by Elin Høyland at her personal site.

Films by Ryan Trecartin

2011-08-16T13:34:00.000-05:00

Films by Ryan Trecartin at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...Ryan Trecartin's video narratives unfold like futuristic fever dreams. Collaborating with an ensemble cast of family and friends, he merges sophisticated digital manipulations with footage from the Internet and pop culture, animations, and wildly stylized sets and performances. While the astonishing A Family Finds Entertainment (2005) has drawn comparisons to Jack Smith, early John Waters, and Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Trecartin crafts startling visions that are thoroughly unique."