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WILLIAM MILLER_ Polaroids Experimentation
Beautifull random effects, strange pattern forms and textural effects created with a broken pola.
JONE REED_ Atmospheric Attraction
Blur, Body, Sensuality, Sadness, we like !
Art in Progress by Leonora Hamill
Winner of the 2012 HSBC Prize for Photography, the Franco-British artist Leonora Hamill captures, in her series « Art in Progress », empty spaces of collective art practice.
« I photograph the studios in Art in Progress, when the students have just left or will be returning shortly and the collective energy is palpable. In this case I think the idea of the other is heightened by his/her absence. The space condenses the passage of time, the passage of students, of their labour and of their hopes ».
Sascha Weidner…enduring beauty
” The strongest impulse in my work is my own life, an interplay of contradictions:the beautiful becomes ugly, the ugly beautiful. The romantic collides with the radical”. Sascha Weidner, berliner photographer.
Paolo Pellegrin exhibition at The MEP
The MEP in Paris presents a retrospective of the great italian photojournalist and member of Magnum, Paolo Pellegrin, till june 17th 2012.
“I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ – a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in.” Paolo Pellegrin.
‘The Wild & The Innocent’ // JORDAN SULLIVAN
Delicacy even ethereality in the pics of this guy from NYC, who focus his special eyes to human kind, nudity and natural world.
http://www.jordan-sullivan.com/
BRITISH TEENS by LAURA PANNACK
This talented young English photographer has already won a lot of prices with her true and “fragile” portraits.
More of her work here
Heaven or Hell //Joel-Peter Witkin
Death, Corpses, Bizarre, Sacred & Eros…with the new book and exhibition of this genius of dark romanticism.
Sublime Banal // Rinko Kawauchi
In Illuminance, The Japanese photographer continues her exploration of the extraordinary in the commonplace….Definitely one of the most innovative ”newcomers” to contemporary photography.
Noor photo agency
One of the greatest photo agencies, founded in 2007. Noor is made up of twelve photographers from eight different countries, including Stanley Greene.
Accomplished and award-winning member photographers document civil and political unrest, environmental issues, war, famine, and natural disasters throughout the globe.
Thomas Olbricht collection exhibition
Last days of that great exhibition (“Memories of the future”) at La Maison Rouge in Paris.
BEAUTY IS DIVERSE – JO SCHWAB
The passive but strong nude portraits of the Berliner, Jo Schwab celebrate the antithesis of generic …
UNDERGROUND SCENES – ALESSANDRO ZUEK SIMONETTI
Italian-born photographer living in NYC, he has travelled around the world to document the streets and the people: fetishist, japanese rockabilly, LA gun clubs , NY skate crew, check out the subcultures which inspired him.
Latest work on Ale’s blog! and his official website
THE BIG OUTSIDE BY RYAN MCGINLEY
From his past of skateboarder, the American photographer Ryan McGinley kept a strong taste for movement, speed and freedom. Carried by a positive and spontaneous energy, his work is a tribute as much to the nature as youth. Wasn’t his first book, in 2000, called “The Kids Are Alright”…?
De son passé de skateboarder, le photographe américain Ryan McGinley a gardé un goût prononcé pour le mouvement, la vitesse et la liberté. Porté par une énergie positive et spontanée, son travail est autant un hommage à la nature qu’à la jeunesse. Son premier livre, en 2000, ne s’appelait-il pas « The Kids Are Alright »…?
TIMELESS AËLA
We have been bewitched by the “dark poetry” of the French photographer Aëla Labbé. Not only tanks to it old-fashion look that we could often see today, but more for the melancholia and “weird” atmosphere , that could even make us uncomfortable. It’s nostalgic but more in the evocation of the childhood fragility and it’s also sensual, disturbing and a little bit magical…
L’univers d’Aëla Labbé nous a envouté. Pas seulement par le traité passéiste que l’on peut croiser souvent, mais plus pour son étrange mélancolie pouvant même parfois “mettre mal à l’aise”. C’est nostalgique, mais plus par la fragilité de l’enfance que l’on retrouve dans ses images et c’est aussi sensuel, poétique, dérangeant et un peu magique….
THE SIOUX BY MARKUS KLINGENHAGER
Going off the beaten track, the report photography sometimes adopts the codes of the studio photo (sophisticated lightings, staged characters, …), blurring the borders of photographic styles. It’s the case with the German photographer Markus Klingenhäger who was interested in the Native American and more exactly in Lakota Sioux of the Pine Ridge Reservation, in the South Dakota. No miserabilism in his series “Darkwhite”, photographed with the 6×6 chamber, but rather an interrogation, a light strangeness maintained by the isolation of the people and the empty landscapes.
Sortant des sentiers battus, la photo de reportage adopte parfois les codes de la photo de studio (éclairage travaillé, personnages mis en scène, …), brouillant les frontières des genres photographiques. C’est le cas avec le photographe allemand Markus Klingenhäger qui s’est intéressé aux amérindiens et plus précisément aux Sioux Lakota de la réserve de Pine Ridge, dans le sud Dakota. Pas de misérabilisme dans sa série « Darkwhite » photographiée à la chambre 6×6 mais plutôt une interrogation, une légère étrangeté entretenue par l’isolement des personnages et les paysages vides.
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HIP HIPSTAMATIC
After the Polaroid, photo booths or Lomography looks, take the effect of the Hipstamatic 100, a very rare plastic toy camera created unofficially in 1982. Add the endless rising trend for retro look in photography and you obtain a buzz around the experience of the Hipstamatic essence through an Iphone app !
A singular and authentic feel celebrated this month with the opening of the first exhibition showcasing iPhone hipstamatic shots (Orange Dot Gallery – London).
Après les effets Lomo, Polaroid ou photo Booths, prenez le feeling très particulier du Hipstamatic 100, cet appareil photo en plastique créé à priori en 1982 et à peine distribué. Ajoutez-le à cette tendance sans fin pour les photos retro, et vous obtiendrez une appli iphone qui ne cesse de faire parler d’elle promettant l’essence de l’Hipstamatic touch.
Son style singulier et authentique est d’ailleurs célébré ce mois ci à la Orange Dot Gallery de Londres, avec l’ouverture de la première exposition dédiée aux photos Hipstamatic iphone …
Discover more here
DATTA
DATTA is an art bookstore freshly opened in Lyon. Inside: a good choice of trendy books from emerging visual culture. It’s also a gallery and below, the two artists they have decided to focus on.
DATTA est une librairie d’art toute fraîche qui a ouvert ses portes à Lyon. On y trouve une bonne sélection de livres du moment en culture visuel émergente et quelques ouvrages plus rares ou épuisés … C’est aussi une galerie et ci-dessous on vous parle des 2 artistes qu’ils ont choisi de promouvoir depuis leur ouverture
This French photographer shoots the rock and street subcultures among others that surround him.
Bikers, strip-teasers, tattooed guys and tattooist are often his darling main subjects, moreover he has signed the next Tatoo Art Festival calendar and contributed to several Sang Bleu magazine issues. For sure, we like these strong « badass » characters, their attitude and « truly » face, but also, how he staged them, in their almost touching, daily environment.
Issu de la culture skate, ce photographe français shoote les subcultures rock & street… qui l’entourent. Biker, strip-teaseuses, tatoués & tatoueurs sont souvent au centre des ses images, il signe d’ailleurs le calendrier 2011 du Tatoo Art Festival et collabore à plusieurs numéros de Sang Bleu. On aime la force de ses personnages bien sur, qui ont souvent une vraie gueule, attitude, mai aussi la manière dont il les met en scène, dans leurs univers quotidiens, presque avec douceur.
Gina Kelly
Big gap with this American artist, who will be displayed in January. We don’t know a lot about her, just she has created some artworks for Andrew Bird… We love her fifties faded tones and her naïve style, a bit folk.
Other illustrations here.
Gina Kelly
Grand écart avec l’artiste américaine qui prendra la relève en janvier. On ne sait encore pas grand-chose d’elle, juste qu’elle a réalisé plusieurs artworks pour Andrew Bird … On aime ses couleurs désuètes un peu fifties et son style naïf un brin folklorique.
D’autres de ses illustrations à découvrir sur gigposters.
BOOK DESIGN BY KATHY HOMANS
Katy Homans is a renowned american graphic designer in the world of art and photography publishing. She designed numerous books including a great number of books dedicated to Lee Friedlander. Her work shows a simple and “bare” elegance, a small but efficient color palette, highlighting the photos presented.
Katy Homans est une graphiste américaine réputée dans le monde de l’édition d’art et de photo. Elle a assuré le design de nombreux livres et notamment un grand nombre d’ouvrages de Lee Friedlander. On retrouve dans l’ensemble de son travail une élégance sobre et dépouillée, une palette de couleurs réduite mais efficace, qui mettent en valeur les photos présentées.
« Sticks & Stones Architectural America" by Lee Friedlander. Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2004
“Stems” by Lee Friedlander. Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2003
“letters from the people” by Lee Friedlander. Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 1993 (First edition)
“Emmet Gowin : changing the earth” text by Jock Reynolds, Terry Tempest Williams and Philip Brookman, published by Yale University Press, 2002
“America by Car” by Lee Friedlander. Published by D.A.P. & Fraenkel, 2010
“America by Car” by Lee Friedlander. Published by D.A.P. & Fraenkel, 2010
“Roni Horn : well and truly” by Yilmaz Dziewior. Text by Gary Indiana, Julie Ault. Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010
“The jazz people of New Orleans” by Lee Friedlander. Published by Pantheon Books, 1992 (first edition)
“Silvia Bächli” Essay by Maja Naef, published by Peter Freeman, Inc.,2008
« Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky : A London Trilogy” by Patrick Hamilton published by The New York Review of Books, 2008
