Ruth uses a pin hole camera to make these incredible and surreal images as 4×5″ silver prints. There are few living masters practicing surrealism in photography and she is one of the best. You can still get her book here but its getting very rare.
Archives For Photography
Landmark: The Fields of Photography. 14 March – 28 April 2013
Curator William A. Ewing:
“Landscape has been and remains one of the most powerful forms of photography, and is even more so in a world which is changing so fast we can hardly keep up. Rising seas, melting glaciers, the ozone hole, desertification, coastal cities under threat – we add to the list everyday. And photographers everywhere are grappling with these problems, creating brilliant pictures which put a vivid face on otherwise abstract issues. These images range from the sublime to the ridiculous; photographers are on the front lines – our eyes and ears. But they also remind us to slow down and appreciate the beauty of the world – often where we least expect it”
Everything I make is a Picture of a Picture in some respect. Pictures of Pictures have always interested me. They are a little bit like a room of mirrors in how they operate. Letinsky has long done a cool and calculated type of still life of mostly food and objects in white rooms the best ones being when she introduces subtle shifts in the color of her lighting.
In this series she changes her game and photographs cut out images of magazines in her minimalist style. With this academic body of work she is a bit more like a postmodern Vermeer with a camera. Want to see more artists who use mass media images in their work? It all started with Andy Warhol and the legions of artists that followed in his footsteps.
Laura Letinsky Ill Form and Void Full 18 Jan – 7 April 2013
Take one part Japanese brush painting tradition, one part Jackson Pollack’s gesture painting, mix with a little water and you get the work of Shinichi Maruyama in this series titled Kusho
http://www.shinichimaruyama.com/portfolio/permalink/384426/4ab8f78a666a04
7 cameras and only $2.5 Billion for this little baby.
Comes complete with 6 wheels, remote control, communications system and laser. Under the hood we got a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator. Oh yeah, I think it can perform a couple of experiments but after seeing the photos it takes here – who cares!
High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity
High rez download of image above via File:PIA16239 High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera unedited.jpg – Wikimedia Commons.
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