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Best Amateur Photography WebSite: Dear Photograph

April 19, 2013 — Leave a comment

All about time, memory and the power of snapshots in our lives Dear Photograph has taken one simple idea and made it into an anonymous, crowd sourced art collective of staggering implications regarding being human and our fleeting time on earth.

Hands down one of the most interesting web sites out there.

via the web site

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Ilona Szwarc / American Girls

April 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

Best known for her American Girls series. She also did a  great series of portraits for the New York Times of Cowgirl’s…

 

 

American Girls

Ilona Szwarc is a photographer, who lives and works in New York City. She was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland.

Her work examines gender, identity and beauty in the context of American culture.

Her project “American Girls” has received worldwide recognition, having been highlighted in The New York Times Lens Blog, MSNBC Today.com and The Huffington Post, among others.

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Valérie Belin’s haunting photographs keep us guessing

April 14, 2013 — Leave a comment

Valérie Belin

A diverse and complicated body of work. Check out the gowns in boxes that feel like coffins…

                              via the artists web site

at Edwynn Houk Gallery via:  http://dlkcollection.blogspot.com/

Valérie Belin’s haunting photographs keep us guessing

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Exhibitions New York: Thomas Ruff @ David Zwirner

April 13, 2013 — Leave a comment
Not so sure about the 3D mars photographs (NASA could of put these images up… and let’s not forget how bad 3D imagery looks without the glasses). Can one actually live with these huge out of focus/registration 3D images or does one carry around a spare set of 3D glasses ALL THE TIME??? Hmmm… I hope I am wrong but this begs a closer look.  But I have to say the Man Ray inspired Photogram’s look incredible and no doubt save the show. Update to come…
Update: After seeing the show I walked away feeling a little confused. First of all I have a hard time with label “photograms” as I am pretty confident in saying that at no time was any object placed on a piece of photographic paper and exposed to light to make these big beautiful images. Especially not at the scale they are presented.  I have no problem that they are  abstractions built via a computer and then exposed as Lightjet images (as I presume they are). But to call them photograms is just incorrect and frankly a bit misleading. They need a new name – so why not call them Ruff-O-Grams?
The 3D ma.r.s images look just ok without the glasses and exactly what you expect with the glasses. So nothing really but a novelty image for me. The big surprise was the highly manipulated landscapes in the series. These are the best of the bunch and work as abstractions from afar and as highly detailed images of the martian surface. All in all a very beautiful show and worth the trip.
Thomas Ruff: Photograms & Ma.r.s  March 28 – April 27, 2013 at David Zwirner

via the gallery web site
Exhibitions New York: Thomas Ruff @ David Zwirner
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Best photographers in London Series: Lydia Roberts

April 12, 2013 — Leave a comment

At only 18 Lidia Roberts is going to be one to watch if she keeps up this extremely raw yet masterful work that is way beyond her years. She is an old soul or possibly Helmut Newton & Man Ray jointly reincarnated.

Lydia ROBERTS @ Galerie BE Espace

 

 

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