1.13.2010
1.11.2010
DAVID MAISEL: Library Of Dust
“. . . these canisters hold the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. Oddly reminiscent of bullet casings, the canisters are literal gravesites. Reacting with their ash inhabitants, the canisters are now blooming with secondary minerals, articulating new metallic landscapes.” — Geoff Manaugh, Contemporary
1.10.2010
1.09.2010
ROBERT VOIT: Cell Phone Trees
Photograph (c) Robert Voit /All Rights ReservedROBERT VOITS NEW TREES is "a work-in-progress since 2003, of mobile phone masts in the guise of artificial trees erected in real space in the U.S., Great Britain, South Africa, Korea, Italy and Portugal pays superficial tribute to a diffuse creative will driven by a basic desire for conciliation. To visually compensate for the dangers of electro-smog, mobile phone masts are given plastic “magic hoods” which simulate nature so that they then appear in the landscape as idealized forms of vegetation. The broad range of camouflage outfits includes deciduous trees and conifers, pines, palms and huge cacti. A lucrative manufacturing industry specializing in these artificial trees has emerged with considerable future potential; currently it is gaining a foothold on the European continent." – Christoph Schaden
JAN 13 - MAR 6
1.08.2010
ALEXANDRA HUDDLESTON: Timbuktu
Daily Life in Black and White: Timbuktu, MaliPhotograph (c) Alexandra Huddleston /All Rights Reserved
Daily Life in Black and White: Timbuktu, MaliPhotograph (c) Alexandra Huddleston /All Rights Reserved
Daily Life in Black and White: Timbuktu, MaliPhotograph (c) Alexandra Huddleston /All Rights Reserved
ALEXANDRA HUDDLESTON, an International Documentary Photographer, spent a year photographing in Timbuktu on a Fulbright Scholarship. She states she wants "to open doors between cultures and individuals through photography and, in so doing, to enable them to decide how and if they want to change their worlds."
ALEXANDRA HUDDLESTON WEBSITE1.07.2010
JOHN EDER: Football Fever
Photograph (c) John Eder /All Rights Reserved
Photograph (c) John Eder /All Rights Reserved
Photograph (c) John Eder /All Rights Reserved
Eder's signature free-falling imagesPhotograph (c) John Eder /All Rights Reserved
I met JOHN EDER several years ago when he shot two covers for us for David Lauren's classic Gen X Swing Magazine ("The Magazine for People in Their 20's, the Age Group that Swings the Vote"). One of the covers was an Eder signature image of a young business man free-falling, and the other was of Matthew Fox, a cool guy long before "Lost".
JOHN EDER WEBSITEThe Football Crowd (above) was commissioned by Getty Images back in the day when they still commissioned photographs. "We had 65 extras in a stadium in Glendora going through all the motions. It was totally artificial, not a real game. I really enjoy directing large crowds. I kind of amazed myself by memorizing the names of all the cast so I could direct them. At the time, I was moaning about how I wasn't making much dough on this mammoth gig - 65 extras, a stadium, six assistants, tons of equipment, etc. etc., and my editor said oh you are gonna make money! Sales were UNBELIEVABLE for the stadium shots."
1.05.2010
MONICA DENEVAN: River Anthology
1.04.2010
JEFF BRIDGES: The Widelux Camera
Peter Bogdanovich: Lining Up A Shot, Texasville 1990Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved
Sam Elliot and Jeff Bridges: 'The Stranger' and 'The Dude', The Big Lebowski 1998 Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved"The Wide-Lux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that. It's something I aspire to in all my work --- a lack of preciousness that makes things more human and honest, a willingness to receive what's there in the moment, and to let go of the result. Getting out of the way seems to be one of the main tasks for me as an artist." – Jeff Bridges, Intro to PICTURES
JEFF BRIDGES has one of the most creative and enjoyable WEBSITES to explore. Among his drawings, music, and film news, there are a couple of (not to missed) Photo Galleries of his behind-the-scenes photographs of Making Iron Man, The Amateurs, and Crazy Heart, taken with a Widelux camera given to him by his wife, photographer Susan Geston. Also posted on his site are useful tips on using the Widelux.
PICTURES is Jeff Bridges book of photographs taken over twenty years, on dozens of movie sets, published by powerHouse Books/Herter Studio. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich, the book includes handwritten captions and personal commentary throughout. The proceeds from the sale of the book go to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a non-profit organization that offers charitable care and support to film-industry workers.
PICTURES is Jeff Bridges book of photographs taken over twenty years, on dozens of movie sets, published by powerHouse Books/Herter Studio. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich, the book includes handwritten captions and personal commentary throughout. The proceeds from the sale of the book go to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a non-profit organization that offers charitable care and support to film-industry workers.
JeffBridges.com
...And more about making of Crazy Heart
Great Interview: Jeff Bridges with Bernie Glassman here!
...And more about making of Crazy Heart
Great Interview: Jeff Bridges with Bernie Glassman here!
1.03.2010
HIROSHI WATANABE: photo-eye Editions
Copyright (c) 2008 Hiroshi Watanabe /All Rights Reserved
Portfolio Copyright (c) photo-eye Editions /All Rights Reserved
Portfolio Copyright (c) photo-eye Editions /All Rights Reserved
1.01.2010
ALINE SMITHSON: Lenscratch Favorites
from "My favorites from the yearly vacation at the lake..."Lenscratch (c) Aline Smithson /All Rights Reserved
from "My favorites from the yearly vacation at the lake..."Lenscratch (c) Aline Smithson /All Rights Reserved
Henry from "My favorites from the yearly vacation at the lake..."Lenscratch (c) Aline Smithson /All Rights Reserved
SHADOWS AND STAINS series: "Shot with a toy camera (Diana), I set out to deconstruct images, overlap or cut my negatives, add thoughts that never get said out loud, add text and texture through traditional methods in the darkroom, add washes of oil paint to the surface, and discard the idea of making the perfect print. I want the shadows and stains of my photographic fingerprints as evidence that I was there, in a dark room." –Aline Smithson
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In December, Photographer Aline Smithson posted the following message on her blog LENSCRATCH: "Send me your favorite photograph of 2009 (that you have taken) and I will post it on New Year's Day." Readers sent images from as far away as India, Burma, Ireland, and Hungary, as well as many from here at home. The following are only a few of the almost 100 images posted:
THE NEW YEAR: 2010
Fireworks Over The Sydney Opera HouseNo pessimists ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
–Helen Keller
12.30.2009
TRAVEL NOTES: Khyongla Rato Rinpoche
Richard Gere and Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, with HH the Dalai Lama's senior tutor, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche (embalmed body d. 1983), Dharamsala, India 1988. Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved A Monk's PhotoJournal: December 2009
Greetings From The Mountains In TaiwanPhotograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved
Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, TaiwanPhotograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved
12.29.2009
JOHN F. MARTIN: Portrait of the Opera
Photograph (c) John F. Martin /All Rights Reserved
Photograph (c) John F. Martin /All Rights Reserved
Photograph (c) John F. Martin /All Rights Reserved
Photograph (c) John F. Martin /All Rights Reserved
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