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The Nine Eyes of Google Street View. An essay on Google Street...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:08:00 +0200

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View.
An essay on Google Street View photos as an anthropological document. Thoughtful and with some interesting pictures.

Text by John Rafman

» http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-of-google-street-view/

Hedi Slimane of, amongst other things, House of Dior fame has...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:49:28 +0200

Hedi Slimane of, amongst other things, House of Dior fame has some simpel but clean and chic diary/visual blog/web-galleries. Huge amount of BW photos of young and beautiful creatures. Uneaven but interessting and a bit mesmerising in all its simplicity.

You reach it through Hedi´s official site:

www.hedislimane.com

Nerijus Rimkus

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:43:06 +0200

Images from Lithuania based photographer Nerijus Rimkus

See more of his work here: http://nerijusrimkus.com/

Heatspell, 1938. Stunning collection from the master Weegee....

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:11:46 +0200

Heatspell, 1938.

Stunning collection from the master Weegee. Photos taken in New Yorkbetween the 1930s and the 1960s.

http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/weegee-collection

Lina Scheynius: Book 02

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:52:41 +0200

Todd Hido

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:58:00 +0200

In a the last six months nearly everyone I know has become unemployed, or at the very least, found themselves pretty destitute. These images from Todd Hido’s Foreclosed Homes series are especially beautiful right now, though they also feel disturbingly close at hand.

See more of Todd Hido’s work on his website

http://www.toddhido.com/

Pierre Debusschere

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:08:21 +0200

www.pierredebusschere.com

Kohei Yoshiyuki

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:09:42 +0200

Kohei Yoshiyuki

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:08:32 +0200

Kohei Yoshiyuki

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:08:10 +0200

Kohei Yoshiyuki

David Lynch Interview Project

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:15:48 +0200

(David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini photographed by Helmut Newton)

Check out this wonderful new project from David Lynch.

121 episodes to be posted through the month of June, each interview conducted with one randomly selected person found while on the road.

After watching the first two, I am genuinely surprised by how entertaining they are. In just 3-4 minutes the interviews are able to resonate by showing people who are strange and unexpected, yet relateable. A great new project worth keeping an eye on.

INTERVIEW PROJECT

"My overall take on portraiture is its overwhelming failure to transcend its basic information..."

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:10:16 +0200

“My overall take on portraiture is its overwhelming failure to transcend its basic information gathering, to offer more than the most superficial report, the well lit ID photo. How rare and surprising to find the powerful and transcendent.”

- What makes a great portrait? on Conscientious

Nobuyoshi Araki by Jeremy Liebman

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:04:47 +0200

Nobuyoshi Araki by Jeremy Liebman

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassionate Eye

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:41:39 +0200

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

Part VII

Part VIII

Part IX

Part X

Friends & Family by Jon Feinstein

Sat, 30 May 2009 14:07:41 +0200

Friends & Family by Jon Feinstein

It's the Photographer not the Camera

Thu, 28 May 2009 12:15:20 +0200

It's the Photographer not the Camera:

Article about Magnum Photographer Alex Majoli who uses Digital Point and Shoots for almost all his assignments (found at 2Point8)

According to Miranda’s Post on Bill Henson a discussion on...

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:57:00 +0200

According to Miranda’s Post on Bill Henson a discussion on ABC 1. Watch carefully!

Interview with Bill Henson on EGO Magazine.

Wild at Heart

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:43:34 +0200

David Lynch’s Wild at Heart was one of those movies that, though disliked upon first viewing, became an outright obsession for me a few years later. Everything about it made me long to make something as beautiful and as rich…as utterly strange and captivating. The feeling lasted about a year and a half.

It’s always sad when something that once drew you close comes to leave you cold, but that’s how it felt when I recently sat down to watch the film again. Just like one of those horribly awkward moments when you realize, while having lunch with an old friend, that you have absolutely nothing to talk about anymore, sitting to watch the film felt completely forced and uninspiring.

Becoming smitten with a piece of artwork has so much in common with falling in love that it’s easy to forget that in art, there is never a perfect match, but instead a constant flux of things that hit you in the gut and then run. Searching, then briefly finding, that certain feeling over and over seems inevitable and frustrating, but I think it’s that longing that leads to the creation of new artwork.

While I search for something else, I am happy to rewatch a few of my old favourites. Currently watching Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth.

“up in smoke”by the polanoid star Philippe Bourgoin.

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:02:28 +0200

“up in smoke”
by the polanoid star Philippe Bourgoin.