All Things Art & Photography
Nick Brandt is one of the best nature photographers out there. His exquisite black and white photographs documenting the vanishing wildlife of East Africa are a wonder to behold.
His new series Across the Ravaged Land with a book by the same name will be on view at Hasted/Kraeutler in the fall of 2013
via the artists web site
“For 20 years now, New York-based photographer Spencer Tunick has been creating human art installations all over the world, calling together volunteers by the hundreds or thousands, asking them to remove their clothes, and photographing them in massive groups. His philosophy is that “individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together, metamorphose into a new shape.” He aims to create an architecture of flesh, where the masses of human bodies blend with the landscape, or juxtapose with architecture. Collected here are images from several of his installations as they were being composed”.
Via The Atlantic
The future is here and apparently in San Francisco and Glasshole is now our newest official addition to the English language.
Gary Scteyngart is not a glasshole but a writer for the New Yorker and was awarded a pair of Google Glass’s. This is kind of like giving Woody Allen a pair and turning him loose on the city… but he is one of the first 100 people in NYC who own a pair. He gives a pretty good “normal guy” account of what it means to wear them all day and how it has affected his life in a pretty big way. Hint: You don’t want to give one to your kid and if you do after reading this you can be a proud member of the worse parent of the year club.
“Before I leave, Aray and I have a Google “hangout.” We essentially swap identities. I see what she sees through her Glass, which is me. She sees what I see through my Glass, which is her. We bring our faces closer, as if approaching a mirror, but the feeling is more akin to being trapped in an early Spike Jonze movie or thrust into an unholy Vulcan mind meld.”
via The New Yorker
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”.
Most of the big advancements in Fine Art Photography have not come from photographers but from artists using the camera (with the exception of Thomas Ruff). David Hockney used cameras constantly in his painting and did a large number of pure photographic works as his photographic composites and collages attest. His Poloroid Portraits, melding collage, Cubist multiple view points and time, are some of my favorites images in the history of photography.
