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David Maisel:
History's Shadow
TateShots is an excellent series of short videos, produced by the Tate, with a focus on modern and contemporary art.
Book launch: In the Shadow Of Things by Léonie Hampton
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 18.30 - 22.30pm @ 22
Micawber Street, London, N1 7TS
About the book: For over a decade, Léonie's mother Bron found
it impossible to empty the packing boxes which had filled her new home since
the collapse of her first marriage. The boxes, along with stuffed plastic bags
and accumulated artefacts from her former life, were a constant, physical reminder
to her family of Bron's long-running battle with OCD and depression. In 2007, a
deal was struck: Léonie would help Bron empty the house on the condition that
she be allowed to document that process. For the book launch event, Léonie and
her mother Bron will transform an abandoned warehouse creating an installation
of objects that they found and sorted during the making of the book. There will
also be a screening of a slideshow of the work, originally made for Foam Museum
Amsterdam.
"Présences"
by Floriane deLassee
now showing at Galerie Philippe Chaume in Paris, 8 April 2011 to 4th June 2011
Visit the artist's website and Vimeo to see more.
With Orr, Timo Klos let the exposure time extend for as long as the moment lasted. The result is paradoxical; the longer he wants to keep a moment, the more information is lost. Too beautiful!
See full series here:
"Dinner, 1 hour" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
"Sexy Sex, 20 minutes" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
"Sleeping, 9 hours" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
Artist's statement: The series was created during what may have been the last 10 days with my girlfriend. I took my photo camera in order to capture our last time together and I exposed every moment as long as it lasted. Her name "Orr" means "Light". |
Tacita Dean. Images from The Russian Ending, 2001:
Tacita Dean. Images from The Russian Ending, 2001.
Each image in the portfolio is derived from a postcard collected by Dean in her visits to European flea markets. Most of the images depict accidents and disasters, both man-made and natural. Superimposed on each image are white handwritten notes in the style of film directions with instructions for lighting, sound and camera movements, suggesting that the each picture is the working note for a film. The title of the series is taken from a convention in the early years of the Danish film industry when each film was produced in two versions, one with a happy ending for the American market, the other with a tragic ending for Russian audiences. Dean's interventions encourage viewers to formulate narratives leading up to the tragic denouements in the prints, engaging and implicating the audience in the creative process.
Check
out Jonathan Cherry's excellent Mull
it Over blog comprising
of "a series of web based interviews with innovative contemporary photographers
from around the world".
Archive
section here http://www.mullitover.cc/archive
I am a big fan of Abelardo Morell's work, particulary his Camera Obscura series (shown here and here). His two new bodies of work - Tent Work and Cliché Verre - are on show at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York until 18 Dec 2010.
In his tent-camera
process Morell continues to push the boundaries of the way we
see with the use of a lightproof tent and periscope that allows him to project
a view of the nearby landscape directly onto the ground below. The resulting
photographs play on the tropes of impressionistic painting as the projected
landscapes are refracted on the grass, sand or pavement below.
"Recently, I began to wonder what it would be like to marry images of landscapes with the surface of the ground nearby. I have worked with my assistant, C.J. Heyliger, on designing a light proof tent that, via periscope type optics, makes it possible to project a view of the nearby landscape onto whatever ground is under the tent. Inside this darkened space I use a view camera to record the effect, which I think is a rather wonderful sandwich of two outdoor realities coming together. This Tent-Camera now liberates me to use camera obscura techniques in a world of new places. I now have a portable room, so to speak." - Abelardo Morell
Abelardo Morell
Tent-Camera Image on Ground: Rooftop View of the Brooklyn Bridge, 2010
"Cliché Verre" is a series of photographs of ferns and cycads. Cliché Verre means "glass picture," and was used by the French painters Corot and Millet. Morell has literally pressed several plants repeatedly all over the surface of a glass plate to achieve more complex imagery, which can look like imaginary jungles or forests.
Press release here: |
Continue reading Abelardo Morell: Groundwork Exhibition.
Research:
Sam Taylor Wood, Still Life (video stills), 2001
In the arts, vanitas is a type of
symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life in
Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries
though also common in other places and periods. The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness"
and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and
the transient nature of Vanity. Common vanitas symbols include skulls, which
are a reminder of the certainty of death; rotten fruit, which symbolizes decay
like ageing; bubbles, which symbolize the brevity of life and suddenness of
death; smoke, watches, and hourglasses, which symbolize the brevity of life;
and musical instruments, which symbolize brevity and the ephemeral nature of
life. Sam Taylor Wood's work (Still Life, Video Stills, 2001) is another step in this
direction: the image, beautiful as ever in Taylor-Wood's universe, decomposes
itself. By the end, nothing is left but a grey amorphous mass.On closer
inspection, one thing distinguishes this picture from its predecessors. The
ball-point pen. A cheap, contemporary object that doesn't decay.
Taryn Simon spent five days photographing items
confiscated from people flying into New York's JFK airport.
"These images are from a set of 1,075
photographs -- shot over five days last year for the book and exhibition,
"Contraband" -- of items detained or seized from passengers or
express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport.
The miscellany of prohibited objects -- from the everyday to the illegal to the
just plain odd -- attests to a growing worldwide traffic in counterfeit goods
and natural exotica and offers a snapshot of the United States as seen through
its illicit material needs and desires".
TARYN SIMON
Bird corpse, labeled as home décor, Indonesia to Miami, Florida (prohibited, 2010
Laundromat/Locomotion is
the result of a project that British artist Steve Pippin conducted in a New
Jersey laundromat (1989) where he transformed washing machines into cameras. As an
homage to the locomotion studies of Eadweard Muybridge, Pippin connected trip
wires to a row of twelve front-loading washing machines and proceeded to walk,
run, and ride a horse through the laundromat, thus creating his own
contemporary motion studies. Pippin's unorthodox technique also included
developing the photographs in the wash and rinse cycles of the machines. 
Image: Walking without Trousers by Steve Pippin
Continue reading Steve Pippin: Laundromat Locomotion.
Untitled, WR Pa 53 (2001) from the series What Remains. Photograph: Sally Mann
Vinland (1992) from the series Immediate Family. Photograph: Sally Mann
Sally Mann The Naked and the Dead. Article by Blake Morrison, The Guardian 29th May 2010
Other Sally Mann posts here and here
Continue reading More on Sally Mann.
Wolfgang
Tillmans forthcoming exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London will focus on both the
figurative and the abstract in Tillmans' work, and embrace a broad range of
subjects; from unconventional eloquent portraits, to large-scale,
colour-saturated abstractions that capture the beauty of photography's chemical
processes. 26th June - 29 August 2010
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wald (Briol I), 2008
Image by Chris Saunders.
Sophie
Ristelhueber (b.1949, France) has been
awarded the 2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize of £30,000. The Deutsche
Börse Photography Prize rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who
has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication
format, to the medium of photography over the previous year. She was nominated
for her retrospective Sophie Ristelhueber at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (20
January - 22 March 2009). The work
of short listed nominees is on show at the Photographers Gallery until 17 April
2010
Richard Hamilton, London
This survey at the Serpentine Gallery,
W2, focuses on the octogenarian's stridently politicised side, showcasing works
that mix righteous ire, piercing insight and media savvy. Included is the
tabloids' favourite, his digitally manipulated image of Tony Blair dressed as a
cowboy. Until 25 April 2010 (from the Guardian).
Full length portrait of Tony Blair
dressed as a cowboy with his hands on his pistols, Shock and Awe (2007-8).
Image by Giacoma Brunelli
A video series (part 1-4) of Thomas Ruff's February 12th, 2010 talk at Aperture NY:
Continue reading Thomas Ruff on Jpegs & Portraiture.
Alejandra Laviada, Chairs, 2007
A major London exhibition of recent
photographs by Elinor Carucci at the James Hyman Gallery
7 January
to 20 Febuary 2010.
An interesting submission by Lorena Endara,
please take a look:
A Man A Plan A Canal Panama focuses on the overdevelopment of
Panama City, Panama in relation to the historical, economic, and political
forces that continually shape the landscape.
Time to Tell is a body of work shot in a small town called Maravatio, in the state of Michoacan. The project was developed while participating in the Guapamacataro Interdisciplinary Residency for Art and Ecology.
Exhibition. Somerset House, London 10th March - 5th April 2010
Royal
Patron: Prince William
"2010 will see one of the
most important and unique photographic exhibtions of international works ever
to take place in London. The
third exhibition of this fully curated museum-scale exhibition is to be held at
Somerset House, London from 10th March to 5th April
2010. A Positive View will bring together more than 100 rare and signed
vintage works across almost a century of photography. Classic and Contemporary works will cross a variety of
genres, from still life, fashion, landscape, portraiture and reportage"
See website for List of Photographers and Artists. More info at Creative Review Blog
Elliott Erwitt, Wyoming Steam Train Press, 1954
Continue reading A Positive View 2010.
Wim Wenders, Lounge Painting #1, Gila Bend,
Arizona, 1983
It
took me hours to find somebody
who could open up the lobby
of the old "Stout's" hotel on Main Street in Gila Bend.
It had been closed for years already.
That painting over the Coke machine haunts me ever since.
It's the dream version
of the perfect beginning
of a road movie.
Continue reading Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth.
