Archive for the 'Photography' Category
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Aaron Rose
Artist, curator, Beautiful Loser visionary, and conceptual synergist, Aaron Rose, sporting a Matt Leines head at home. Check out the rest of the photo set over at The Selby
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Todd Seelie Documents Swoon’s Swimming Cities
At last! Todd Seelie has finally posted his photography documenting the journey of Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea down the Hudson. The self-built armada left upstate Troy, NY and sailed down the river, arriving at its final location at Deitch Studios, Long Island City for the opening night celebration of the artist’s monumental warehouse installation. The Art Collectors sends a personal thank you out to Seelie for beautifully capturing the three week excursion and giving us a rare glimpse of this artistic voyage. Read on for more pics, or better yet, go visit Todd’s site for the entire thing. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
At Home With Adam Wallacavage
RVCA just clued us in to this stunning look at artist, photographer, and chandelier craftsman, Adam Wallcavage’s Philadelphia home, photographed by Todd Selby. Read on to see something incredible. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Ed likes to take pictures of Deanna’s pictures
Ed Templeton has posted some nice pics on his blog of wife and photographer Deanna Templeton’s Oct. 3 opening at New Image Art in LA. Read through for a few or start scrolling here to seem them all. Deanna’s show, The Swimming Pool, runs till Oct. 24 Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
JR takes NYC
French photographer and muralist JR hit downtown New York this week, while visiting to set up for Lazaridies’ Outsiders show. The massive piece went up in Open Roads Park, on the side of East Side Community High School. The mural expands on JR’s epic project, The Hills Have Eyes, in which the artist immersed his images in the crime-ridden slums of Rio de Janeiro, covering buildings with enlarged portraits of women whose lives have been impacted by violence, conflict, and loss. The New York mural adds an additional layer of complexity to the project, depicting a photograph JR took of one of his prints already installed on the steps of a building in Favela de Providencia, with local residents walking above. An additional piece can be seen at the corner Houston and Bowery St, or catch a pic of it over at The World’s Best Ever.
Catch more exclusive pics of the installation after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Clayton Patterson Captures New York
For the past 30 years, downtown documentarian, Clayton Patterson, has been photographing and filming the history of New York City’s Lower East Side. From the gritty heyday of the 1980s, to recent post-Guliani gentrification, Patterson has captured it all. As stated by the New York Times, “He can’t stop, even after more than a dozen arrests by camera-shy police officers. He has amassed a huge day-by-day visual history of the area, told mainly through unpretentious portraits of its myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggers, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots.”
Now the artist’s work is the is the subject of a new documentary film, Captured, which offers a rare glimpse into one of the most historically relevant archives chronicling modern New York City. While there are no distribution plans set for the movie, keep an eye out for select showings. Next up will be an August 22nd screening at the New Museum in New York, followed by a Q + A session with Patterson and the film makers. The viewing coincides with museum’s Bowery Artist Tribute, an ongoing project documenting artists who have lived and worked around the Bowery in lower Manhattan.
Tix here. Click through for trailer and interview. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Richard Prince + Terry Richardson on Wives, Wheels, Weapons
Do you remember James Frey? He wrote a novel called A Million Little Pieces, that caused quite a stir within the publishing world when the Smoking Gun revealed his seemingly autobiographical account of a life of drug addiction was actually more fiction than fact. This also angered millions of Oprah fans, who had snatched the book up in lock step after the day-time host praised the novel on television and added it to her book club list. James Frey learned the hard way that while you you can stretch the literary truth, its best not to piss off of Oprah along the way. After a class action lawsuit, getting dropped by his publisher and agent, and a mass recall of the book, it seemed his career as an author was over – until now. After the controversy of being publicly discredited, Frey’s new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, is out via Harper Collins.
To accompany the novel, an artist book entitled Wives, Wheels, Weapons is being released by JMc & GHB Editions. This companion edition excerpts three stories of the same name from the novel, alongside a photo essay response by photographer, Terry Richardson. The book is available in both soft and hard cover editions of 1000 each, the later including a dust jacket by Richard Prince. Richardson, Prince and Frey will attend the release Sunday, August 10th, from 5-7 pm at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in New York and will be available for signing.
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
BK:: Tod Seelie and Cinders – Slowdancing To Slayer
Slowdancing to Slayer, joins photographer Tod Seelie with arguably Brooklyn’s most relevant gallery. Since opening in 2004, Cinders has successfully maintained its DIY spirit, functioning as a purely artist-run space. While the show marks the first photo exhibit for the gallery, there couldn’t be a more fitting home for Seelie’s counterculture wonder-wasteland. Functioning as a “mini-retrospective” of sorts, the exhibit showcases a broad body of work, and serves as an autobiographical representation of the photographers recent travels, adventures, friendships, and artistic adventures. While some may dismiss images of young punks, seemingly shrugging off responsibility, what will be missed is the celebration of a young community, alive and shaping the world around them. More pics after the jump, better pics on the Cinders site. On view till August 9th – Do not miss this one.