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Showing posts with label picture of the week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label picture of the week. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Picture of the Week: Nina Büsing Corvallo
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Picture of the Week: Talia Greene
© Talia Greene
Please visit www.taliagreene.com to see more of Talia's innovative work.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Picture(s) of the Week: Judith Stenneken
Bombay | Building the Promised City
by Judith Stenneken
”Consider it a blessing to share the same address as God.”
(A Builders’ Advertisement in Bombay)
Fortune Seekers are flooding the megacity Bombay daily from the various provinces. Many of them are living and working at countless large construction sites in the city.
Men standing in glassless windows are swinging reinforcements with a lot of strength from floor to floor upwards. Rhythmical and without mistakes – regular as a clockwork. In huge deep plates the women in colourful saris are carrying the prepared cement to their husbands. The experienced teams of two are working their way from room to room, always with the same pace.
Like cogs of a huge machine it is a perfect and never ending seamless workflow. While a new floor is being prepared on the rooftop, electricians are installing power supply lines on the mid-levels. On the first floor people are moving in and in the grocery stores on the ground floor the workers can already buy the vegetables for their lunches.
In the skeleton construction work site other scenes are taking place, too. Bright children’s voices are permeating the hallways. A girl and two boys are imitating their fathers as they are plastering a future living room. A mother wipes the cement dust of her two kids. A grandmother is cooking for her family of seven on a camping stove.
Until a building is finished the workers and their families are living in it. For security reasons the children hardly ever leave the construction site.
My work is looking beyond the pure documentation of a state for the transient and personal intermediate spaces, which are hidden in every situation and action.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Picture(s) of the Week: Sarah Sudhoff
Suicide with Gun, Male, 40 years old (I) © Sarah Sudhoff
Illness, Female, 60 years old © Sarah Sudhoff
Suicide with Gun, Male, 40 years old (II) © Sarah Sudhoff
Heart attack, Male, 50 years old (III) © Sarah Sudhoff
This week we are sharing some images from Sarah Sudhoff's new series At the Hour of Our Death. While confrontational in nature, these fluid stained surfaces are somehow poetic as they linger in your thoughts. Here's a snippet from her statement.
These large-scale color photographs capture and fully illuminate swatches of bedding, carpet and upholstery marked with the signs of the passing of human life. The fabrics which are first removed by a trauma scene clean up crew, are relocated to a warehouse before being incinerated. It is in the warehouse that I photograph these fragments stained with bodily fluids. I tack each swatch to the wall and use the crew’s floodlights to illuminate the scene. The images are my attempt to slow the moments before and after death to a single frame, to allow what is generally invisible to become visible, and to engage with a process from which we have become disconnected.
You can read more about this body of work here and here. Sarah's work can be found on sarahsudhoff.com and At the Hour of Our Death can be seen on her blog sarahsudhoff.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Picture(s) of the Week: Sophie Lee
© Sophie Lee
This week we are thrilled to present photographs by Sophie Lee who is currently completing her BA at these Manchester School of Arts. Sophie explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, employing language of theater and performance.
Her website is currently under construction, but you can follow her blog at: www.sophie--lee.blogspot.com/.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Picture(s) of the Week: Jennifer Ray
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Picture(s) of the Week: Toni Pepe
Toni Pepe, who we previously interviewed, sent us some photographs from her new body of work titled, "The Gesture of Tradition."
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.” – Woody Allen
The Gesture of Tradition is a series of photographs that deal with the manifestation of identity through domestic tradition and ritual, art history and the mass media. Familial and cultural history is a specific kind of narrative, one that is shrouded in reverence and subject to memory. The photograph, an object heavily involved with memory and narrative works seamlessly to convey this approach to legacy and identity.
The Gesture of Tradition is an investigation of the family tree – a physical and visual diagram of the qualities of one’s own past. I use myself as both subject and author in an attempt to simultaneously experience the gestural characteristics of my heritage, while at the same time maintaining a sense of control as narrator. I am focused on the structure of ancestry – of what has come before us and how that defines an individual. Throughout this series, I strive to implement a sense of history – a narrative beyond the frame, delicately woven into the objects, gestures, lighting, and character. Everything within the frame is considered and functions to evoke something in the viewer that is familiar, but perhaps forgotten.
The Gesture of Tradition will be on display at Stony Brook University and she will also be presenting a paper at their Philosophy and the Arts Conference. The conference will be held on Stony Brook University’s Manhattan campus (110 East 28th Street) the weekend of March 26th-27th.
Toni's panel, Recollective Generations is scheduled on Saturday, March 27th from 1:45-3:30 p.m. and the photographs will be up beginning Friday, March 26th. For more information about the conference please visit their site: www.philosophyartconference.org.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Picture(s) of the Week: Yijun Liao
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Picture(s) of the Week: Brea Souders
Rubberband (mom's reminder to stay flexible) from Constellation © Brea Souders
Yellow Paint Samples (creating light, post-breakup) from Constellation © Brea Souders
A peek from a new series titled Constellation by Brea Souders. For more work, please visit breasouders.com. Also revisit our Conversation with Brea.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Picture of the Week: Elisabeth Bernstein
© Elisabeth Bernstein
Gorgeous fabricated landscapes by artist Elisabeth Bernstein.
If you are in New York you can see this work at Wild Project through March 6, 2010.
Online you can find Elisabeth's work at: www.elisabethbernstein.com.
Elisabeth Bernstein
Scapes
Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
-through March 6, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Picture (& Motion) of the Week: Livia Corona
© Livia Corona
We were thrilled & proud to show Livia Corona's work in the last Nymphoto Exhibit at Sasha Wolf Gallery.
Livia was just awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and will complete her project Two Million Homes from Mexico as a book. We can't wait to see it!
Livia also is not only documenting and exploring this project with still photography but also with motion.
Take a look at one of her films:
El Pan - From the series Two Million Homes for Mexico from LIVIA CORONA on Vimeo.
( http://vimeo.com/9029651 )Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Picture of the Week: Katrina D'Autremont
© Katrina M. d'Autremont
Katrina d'Autremont's series Si Dios Quiere... documents & explores the home of Katrina's mother's childhood in Argentina. Katrina explores the interfamilial relationships and the role the family home plays in the family's rapport.
These images always stun me because they could have been taken yesterday in Italy at my husband's grandmother house.
It is always a pleasure to encounter art that captures universality and an artist who so willingly searches for truth.
You can see Katrina's work in person through March at:
Silver Eye Center for Photography
1015 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Telephone: 412.431.1810
- through March 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Picture of the Week: Corinne Vionnet
Lake Geneva (I), series "From Rhone Glacier to Lake Geneva" © Corinne Vionnet
We first discovered Corinne Vionnet's work during the selection process for Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf last year and today we bring you a new work by Corinne for Picture of the Week.
The series From Rhone Glacier to Lake Geneva is a personal exploration for Corinne that results in exalting landscape imagery and portraiture. If you have a chance to see this work in person, take it, Corinne's printing is flawless.
Please also re-visit our conversation with Corinne, by clicking here.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Picture of the Week: Heidi Romano
© Heidi Roman
This week's image is by Heidi Romano. Heidi is the founder and curator of the online photo journal UYW. You can currently see Issue 3 at www.unlessyouwill.com.
You can see more of Heidi's work also at: www.talesoflight.com.au.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Picture of the Week: Ellen Rennard
Mane, 2009 © Ellen Rennard
We are delighted to present an image by Ellen Rennard today. Ellen has an exhibit opening tomorrow in Stoneham, MA showcasing her exceptional work from The Downs racetrack in New Mexico.
The Downs at Albuquerque
Photographs by Ellen Rennard
The Atelier Gallery at the Stoneham Theatre
395 Main St., Stoneham, MA
January 13 - February 28
Opening reception with the artist at the Stoneham Theatre
Thursday, January 14, 6-7:30 PM
We also invite you to re-visit our conversation with Ellen Rennard by clicking here.
To see more of Ellen's work please visit: www.ellenrennard.com or visit
www.kevinlongino.com.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Picture of the Week: Justine Reyes
Still Life with Banana, Purse and Change, Vanitas, 2009 © Justine Reyes
This week's photo comes from Justine Reyes whose new exhibition VANITAS opens at the Center for Photography at Woodstock this coming Saturday.
VANITAS will be on view in CPW’s Kodak gallery from January 9 through February 28, 2010.
The opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 9th from 5-7pm & an informal talk will take place at 6pm.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Picture(s) of the Week: Liz Kuball
Sounding off 2009 with an extended edition of Picture of the Week© Liz Kuball
The end of year and Winter has arrived in New York, and it makes us dream of California.
Liz Kuball's excellent series California Vernacular is just what we needed: beautiful light, sun-bleached landscapes, exuberant greens and succulents! We can practically smell the mild air while looking at Liz' vignettes of Southern California life.
You can see the whole series at www.lizkuball.com. To re-visit our conversation with Liz, please click here.
If you want to bring a piece of California home you can buy prints from California Vernacular at 20x200.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
PIcture of the Week: Dulce Pinzón
BERNABE MENDEZ from the State of Guerrero works as a professional window cleaner in New York. He sends 500 dollars a month.
BERNABE MENDEZ originario de Guerrero trabaja limpiando vidrios en los rascacielos de Nueva York. Manda 500 dólares al mes.
© Dulce Pinzón
This week's image is by Mexican artist © Dulce Pizón. Her brilliant series, Superheroes, about immigrant workers in New York, aims to “raise questions of both our definition of heroism and our ignorance of the workforce that fuels our ever-consuming economy.” She made the series into an 18 month calendar that will benefit the NICE- New Immigrant Community Empowerment, located in Jackson Heights, Queens. You can purchase a copy here for just $12! This is such a perfect Christmas gift, I am purchasing one for myself!
Superheroes Calendar © Dulce Pinzón
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