Mike Fleming’s work hones in on those little visual bits that, depending upon your disposition, are either dull or sublime. (I find they fit both definitions, which complicates matters infinitely.) They’re quiet, goofy, honest, and odd; all [ READ MORE ... ]
I first encountered this Hendrik Kerstens photo upon my return from living in Amsterdam last Fall. I was immediately struck by it’s blend of clever and classic: the look of the Dutch Golden Age paired with [ READ MORE ... ]
Suzanne Mooney’s Behind the Scenes project intrigues me, as it is “photography about photography.” The entire series is like the one above. In the blurred distance lies a landscape, but we experience it via a [ READ MORE ... ]
Tim Steer’s Tourists series reminds us that photographs absorb more than the specific object of our vision. Steer writes:
As people take tourist photos, other tourists are inevitably included in the background. Each person who [ READ MORE ... ]
“This, that, and the other” from around the web for the week of September 29th through October 3rd, 2008.
Photographs by William Eggleston | Fine Art Auction | Christie’s
Just about every important photograph that William [ READ MORE ... ]
Is it just me, or does the portrait of Rineke Dijkstra in the premier issue of Time Out Amsterdam share some of the awkward yet fascinating angularity of the poses from her
Beach Portraits?
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There are many who think that visually captivating, expressive, and meaning-rich images must be the product of complex and uniquely original thought.
But, really, it can be as simple as a reinterpretation of a long ago way of [ READ MORE ... ]
The geeky phenomenon of “unboxing” – a shot-by-shot photodiary of the act of unpackaging new high-tech products – is at best somewhat unsettling and at worst stultifyingly dull.
But this series, recounting the unwrapping of [ READ MORE ... ]
Jill Greenberg seems to have a bit of a mean streak! Whether snatching lollipops from small children (the reason all those kids are wailing in her “End Times” series) or luring Republicans to a dark [ READ MORE ... ]
Yesterday’s date did not pass unnoticed despite my current absence from the United States. Just before 3pm here in Amsterdam I was finishing a late lunch and absentmindedly turned on CNN. The names of those lost were [ READ MORE ... ]
Sebastian Lemm’s photography caught my eye with its heavy shapes and high contrast, but it was Jörg Colberg’s description of the work as “very conceptual” that landed me on Lemm’s website.
Perusing the [ READ MORE ... ]
I was surprised to see how similar Elinor Carucci’s photographs of blogger Emily Gould (Exposed, May 28, 2008) were to images from Carucci’s 2002 book Closer.
The style is amazingly similar in lighting, composition, color, and [ READ MORE ... ]
A huge “thank you” to everyone who made my 20×200 edition of Every Chair at the Visual Studies Workshop a success. I am humbled that it sold out, and did so in such a short time!
Prints from my Every Chair at the Visual Studies Workshop project are now available through Jen Bekman’s 20×200!
You can choose from three different print sizes, and – unlike most 20×200 editions – the three prints [ READ MORE ... ]
I am going to go out on a very strong, anchored limb here and predict that Errol Morris’s new film – Standard Operating Procedure – is going to be remembered as a key moment in [ READ MORE ... ]