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The Photographs of Danila Tkachenko

September 22, 2015 — Leave a comment

Congrats to the the winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography (EPAP) 2015 who is Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko with his project Restricted Areas which is a wonderful and haunting series of images on the Russian “technocratic future that never came”.

“The project “Restricted Areas” is about utopian strive of humans for technological progress.

I travel in search of places which used to have great importance for the technical progress – and which are now deserted. Those places lost their significance together with the utopian ideology which is now obsolete. Secret cities that cannot be found on maps, forgotten scientific triumphs, abandoned buildings of almost inhuman complexity. The perfect technocratic future that never came…”

Danila Tkachenko

 

Airplane – amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation.

Airplane – amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation.

 

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The world’s largest diesel submarine.

 

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“Bulgaria” ship lifted from underwater, 122 people drowned on it.

 

Via http://www.danilatkachenko.com/projects/restricted-areas/

All photos copyright Danila Tkachenko

The Photographs of Danila Tkachenko

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The Atlas of Photographic Processes

March 21, 2015 — Leave a comment

All you need to know about every different photographic process before digital can now be found in this labor of love titled, The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes. There is a reason they call it an Atlas…  Brought to you by the very smart folks at the Getty Conservation Institute.

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via  http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/atlas.html

The Atlas of Photographic Processes

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The Photographs of Martin Kollar

January 20, 2014 — Leave a comment

Martin Kollar was invited to Israel to make some pictures. What he came back with is so unique and so uniquely Martin Kollar that you really can’t see the world any other way except through his eyes. This is the mark of all great photographers. Mr. Kollar has a photographic vision that is both absurd, surreal and brutally honest. His book Field Trip is published by Mack Books.

“Some of the places I had the impression that I was on a film set, and I tried to bring this to the images. You don’t really know when the reality and the fiction somehow stops and starts.”

 

via: http://www.martinkollar.com/field-trip

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Books: James Welling Monograph

August 1, 2013 — Leave a comment

Long time influential artist and photographer James Welling finally gets the museum survey and book that documents his long amazing career.  Interview with him here.

James Welling: Monograph
February 02, 2013 – May 05, 2013

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

“For over thirty-five years, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs, and continues to be lauded by photographers, artists, and critics for his influence on the contemporary generation of art photographers. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture, and traditional photography, Welling is first and foremost a photographic practitioner enthralled with the possibilities of the medium. James Welling: Monograph provides the most thorough presentation of the artist’s work to date, as well as offering an indispensable resource for those interested in this artist’s remarkable, foundational practice”.

via James Welling: Monograph – books – Aperture Foundation.

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David Sedaris Reads Stadium Pal

July 3, 2013 — Leave a comment

The first time I heard David Sedaris read from his Santaland Diaries I almost fell out of my chair.   Here is 5 min with a very funny guy reading his essay, Stadium Pal.

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