Martin Klimas, Paint, Music and Photography
Martin Klimas’ 3D artwork uses paint positioned above a very loud speaker. Here’s the results of “Bitches Brew” by Miles Davis. (via Kottke.org, naturally)
Y’all are eating what you walk on
Adama Kouyaté. Untitled. Bouaké, 1967.
One amongst a stunning set of images by African photographers presented by Fifty One Fine Art Photography.
(Via Phil Bebbington.)
I can’t hear you
Happy Inside
Amy Lombard photographed awkward moments in IKEA stores, a book with her series is being published. She’s now raising funds with pre-orders. See more.
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Photographers pose with their most famous photographs
Tim Mantoani took photographs of famous photographers holding their most iconic images:
The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.
Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.
The photograph above is Neil Leifer holding his photo of Ali and Liston taken on May 25, 1965.
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Winter Citrus, Revisited
This is a story about winter citrus. More specifically, it’s a story about finding a day to play in a photo studio, complete with beautiful props and gorgeous styling. It’s a story dedicated to free form (there are no recipes here!), to abundant light, to taking it slow and easy during the new year, but mostly it’s a story about bright happy little fruit that inspires me.
Warning: Article includes several images of citrus desserts that may not be suitable for Deron and other sensitive viewers.
the inverse of the American Dream
Photographer Doug Rickard used Google Street View to find pictures for his latest show at the Museum of Modern Art.
According to Rickard, this epiphany fused immediately into a crystal-clear idea: He would use Street View as his camera and, working from a room in his home, travel the roads of neglected American cities and neighborhoods in a 21st-century “road trip.” This single idea would utterly consume his life for close to two years, resulting in the important body of work “A New American Picture,” a selection of which hangs today in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
from the comments
At times I have been the elephant.
Photographs are neither true nor false
Errol Morris talks with The Guardian about his book, Believing Is Seeing.
Google Image Search: Francesca Woodman
It’s snowing!
They speak to me
Art Institute adds Warhol’s ‘Empire’ to Chicago skyline
From 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. [Friday, December 9], the modern skyscraper [the Aon Center] overlooking Millennium Park will be acting as a movie screen onto which the Art Institute of Chicago will be projecting Andy Warhol’s eight-hour silent, black-and-white epic “Empire,” which consists of one long, unbroken shot of New York’s Empire State Building. Said to be the first outdoor U.S. screening of this landmark — if not exactly action-packed — film, the event marks the very public, logistically challenging kickoff to the Art Institute’s new exhibition Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, which opens to members Saturday and to the public Tuesday.
Birds only move gracefully when they’re flying
I’ll tell you the best snare drum on earth is like a trampoline in November
things to see in Rome when you think you’ve seen it all
Being that I’m on a moratorium against photographs on my own blog, I’ll break my sight-silence (sitence?) to show you some things you might otherwise not know about:
Rhein II
Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II” set a new record for the highest selling price for a photograph ($4.3 million) yesterday. I must say I rather like it, though I do wonder how these things happen.
Before and after pictures of joggers by Sacha Goldberger
The images are by renowned French photographer Sacha Goldberger, who decided to set up an outdoor studio in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris to capture the cross section of society who use it for exercise. He stopped people as they ran and invited them to stand in front of a 3m² sheet of paper to be photographed. But wanting to capture them at their most off-guard, Sacha asked them to have a sprint immediately prior to being photographed. He then used the same team and equipment as on a high-level fashion shoot — complete with four assistants and studio-quality lighting. One week later, Sacha asked the joggers to wear similar clothes to his real studio. They would be photographed again using the same backdrop and lighting, but this time there would be a professional make-up and hair stylist on hand to make them look their very best.
Hidden Mothers
This was a practice where the mother…often disguised or hiding often under a spread…holds her baby tightly for the photographer to insure a sharply focused image.
Hidden Mother : Tintypes and Cabinets Flickr Group
(via Roslyn Cook / Retronaut)
Thomas Bernhard on Photography
«Every photograph—whoever took it, whoever is pictured in it—is a gross violation of human dignity, a monstrous falsification of nature, a base insult to humanity. [...] Photography is the greatest mockery in the world, the ultimate mockery of the world.»
More thoughts on photography & thinking, whilst reading Bernhard & Beckett in Dublin.
for the ride
I love this photo by Karrah Kobus (you can order prints by the way), a Minneapolis based photographer, which was inspired by a similarly striking photograph by Alex Stoddard.
Grab a chocolate, grab a Band-Aid holder
