1.14.2010

GINA KELLY: Behind The Curtain

Denali Behind The Curtain 2
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly
/All Rights Reserved

Box of Horses
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly
/All Rights Reserved


Sisters
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly
/All Rights Reserved


The Kind of Thing That Brightens My Day
Photograph (c) Gina Kelly
/All Rights Reserved


GEENUT BLOGSPOT
GINA KELLY WEBSITE

1.11.2010

DAVID MAISEL: Library Of Dust

Photograph (c) David Maisel /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) David Maisel /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) David Maisel /All Rights Reserved

. . . 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 Reserved

Photograph (c) Robert Voit /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Robert Voit /All Rights Reserved

ROBERT 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

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1.08.2010

ALEXANDRA HUDDLESTON: Timbuktu

Daily Life in Black and White: Timbuktu, Mali
Photograph (c) Alexandra Huddleston /All Rights Reserved

Divine Knowledge: Timbuktu, Mali
Photograph (c) Alexandra Huddleston /All Rights Reserved

Divine Knowledge: Timbuktu, Mali
Photograph (c) Alexandra Huddleston /All Rights Reserved

Daily Life in Black and White: Timbuktu, Mali
Photograph (c) Alexandra Huddleston /All Rights Reserved

Daily Life in Black and White: Timbuktu, Mali
Photograph (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 WEBSITE

1.07.2010

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 images
Photograph (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".

The 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."
JOHN EDER WEBSITE

1.05.2010

MONICA DENEVAN: River Anthology

Across The River, Burma 2004
Photograph (c) Monica Denevan /All Rights Reserved

Quiet Water, Burma 2005
Photograph (c) Monica Denevan /All Rights Reserved

Jordan's Hands, Burma 2004
Photograph (c) Monica Denevan /All Rights Reserved


1.04.2010

JEFF BRIDGES: The Widelux Camera


Peter Bogdanovich: Lining Up A Shot, Texasville 1990
Photograph (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.

1.03.2010

HIROSHI WATANABE: photo-eye Editions

Aikichi 2, Suo SarumawashiToned Gelatin-Silver Print, Edition of 30
Copyright (c) 2008 Hiroshi Watanabe /All Rights Reserved


Fukunosuke, Suo Sarumawashi Toned Gelatin-Silver Print, Edition of 30 Copyright (c) 2008 Hiroshi Watanabe /All Rights Reserved

Limited Edition Black Anodized Aluminum Box
Portfolio Copyright (c) photo-eye Editions /All Rights Reserved

Fukunosuke's Hands, One of 12 prints chosen for the Edition
Portfolio Copyright (c) photo-eye Editions /All Rights Reserved







1.01.2010

ALINE SMITHSON: Lenscratch Favorites


Shadows and Stains series
H
and painted silver gelatin print (c) Aline Smithson /All Rights Reserved

Shadows and Stains series
H
and painted silver gelatin print (c) Aline Smithson /All Rights Reserved

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:

Finokalia (Φινοκαλιά), Crete
Photograph (c) Phil Bebbinton /All Rights Reserved

Los Angeles, CA
Photograph (c) Maura Brennan /All Rights Reserved

THE NEW YEAR: 2010

Fireworks Over The Sydney Opera House

No 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

ELLEN FORBES BURNIE: Running Towards 2010

Photograph (c) Ellen Forbes Burnie /All Rights Reserved

ELLEN FORBES BURNIE
art direction | photography

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 Taiwan
Photograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, Taiwan
Photograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved