Todd Hido’s new book of landscape photographs, A Road Divided, in which the artist again focuses his attention on the American landscape. Driving lonely roads on the outskirts of cities, Hido creates poignant images filled with inexplicable gravity, cinematic scenes of places that somehow exist in our collective memory. In these new pictures, Hido demonstrates his fluidity within the daytime realm, putting aside the harder edge that characterizes his night work by photographing through veils of rain or ice. Delicately, potently, embracing the beauty of the pictorial, Hido’s new pictures present an image plane that is often fully disintegrated, recalling impressionist painting. With an unquestionably modern effect, he often frames the compositions from inside his car, photographing straight through the windshield, using it as an additional lens and bringing a sense of timing and moment to these stationary scenes.

Todd Hido’s  website

A Road Divided by Nazraeli Press

One afternoon in the late ’70s I asked Ruscha about his “Standard Stations” paintings: “These are standard stations, right? As in standardized stations?” Ruscha nodded. Then he said, “Yeah, but they’re also standard stations,” and a little bell went bing! Of course! Lapsed-Catholic Ruscha! Standard stations of the cross! Fourteen stations, minus the crucifixion. Thirteen stations from Los Angeles to the Calvary of Ed’s hometown in Oklahoma – then thirteen stations back to Los Angeles, refusing that sacrifice. Perfect.

ArtForum, January, 1997 by Dave Hickey

full article on AMERICANSUBURBX

dal 17 giugno al 12 settembre 2010

tutti i giorni dalle 11 lle 21
Giovedì e Venerdì dalle 11 alle 23
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Quando lavoravo a RAIN, HOPE e GRIEF, non ero perfettamente sicuro di cosa volessi dire. Ora sto crescendo. Ho più dubbi e non so dove il mio lavoro mi porterà. Sento di stare esplorando. Quando realizzavo la serie DUSK ancora non conoscevo le risposte. Ora che ho terminato DAWN, capisco finalmente cosa volevo dire. Non penso di poterlo esprimere a parole, ma credo di saperlo. La cosa migliore, è quando alla fine di tutto rimane un punto interrogativo.
Erwin Olaf

Erwin olaf website

forma website

andreaslaszlokonrath.com

here u can check the zine   So Alone I Keep The Wolves at Bay published by PAUWAU PUBLICATIONS

L’ “ETE DES PORTRAITS” è un Festival dedicato ai fotografi professionisti europei che si svolge ogni due anni a Bourbon-Lancy, in Bourgogne du Sud. Per tutta l’estate 1500 fotografie in concorso, realizzate da 500 fotografi provenienti da tutto il continente, resteranno esposte per le vie del paese, un bellissimo borgo medioevale, con eventi paralleli, mostre e incontri professionali a farne da contorno.

Nell’edizione del 2010 il Festival dedicherà la sua esposizione più importante ai fotografi italiani; la mostra resterà esposta per tutta la durata della
manifestazione nella chiesa romanica di Saint Nazaire ( XI° secolo ), una location di grande fascino già sede di altre prestigiose esposizioni negli anni passati.

Saranno esposti 36 autori, ognuno con una propria immagine stampata su carta fine-art in formato 100×150 cm. Tra questi, alcuni dei più importanti fotografi italiani: Ferdinando Scianna, Giovanni Gastel, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Piero Gemelli, Alberta Tiburzi, Pino Settanni, Gianfranco Salis, Graziella Vigo, Nino Migliori, Mario De Biasi, Patrizia Savarese, Settimio Benedusi, Toni Thorimbert, Chiara Samugheo e un’altra ventina di professionisti, tutti di ottimo livello, rappresentativi della migliore tradizione fotografica professionale italiana.

Inaugurazione il 18 luglio 2010, alle ore 18, nella chiesa di Saint Nazaire, a Bourbon-Lancy, Francia, e resterà esposta fino al 26 settembre 2010.

www.etedesportraits.com

L’elenco degli Autori esposti:

Chiara Samugheo
Alberta Tiburzi
Mario de Biasi
Gianni Berengo Gardin
Toni Thorimbert
Ferdinando Scianna
Patrizia Savarese:
Settimio Benedusi:
Gianfranco Salis
Giovanni Gastel
Pino Settanni
Graziella Vigo
Nino Migliori
Piero Gemelli
Marco Onofri
Davide Cerati
Adriano Scognamillo
Sara Lando
Enrico Maria Lattanzi
Moreno Monti
Alice Pedroletti
Fabio Piemonte
Simone Pierfelice
Paolo Ranzani
Livio Moiana
Luca Cepparo
Antonella Mariani
Stefano Bottesi:
Massimo Mantovani:
Alessandro Dobici:
Marco Cauz:
Andrea Chisesi:
Diana Bagnoli
Salvatore di Vilio
Fabrizio De Blasio
Antonio Mantc

Smoke Bath is a collection of photographs and art work loosely based on the theme of camping/ nature/ exploring. The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that provides free summer vacations to New York City children from low-income communities. The goal of smoke bath is to showcase the work of artists that are inspired by nature and raise money for freshair.org in the process.

“For the last few years I’ve been thinking of art outside of the context of galleries, sales and museums. I’ve wondered about the power of art and its potential to do something positive. At it’s core, this project is a test, and I hope the result will be an (online) exhibition that people all over the world can enjoy while raising some money for a very good cause in the process. I hope the images collected here inspire people to think about the beauty of the wilderness, and perhaps inspire them to donate to freshair.org. Visiting natural and wilderness areas can be a very peaceful and mind-expanding experience. Hopefully this project helps kids to discover the outdoors. Thanks to all of the artists who contributed to Smoke Bath!”   PETER SUTHERLAND

SMOKE BATH WEBSITE

FRESH AIR WEBSITE

Noah Abrams website

vivanne sassen website

until the 2nd of june there’s an exhibiton of viviane at FORMA (Milan)

AURA PROJECT by Carl Van de Roer :

These portraits are made with a Polaroid aura camera developed in the 1970s by an American scientist in an attempt to record what a psychic might see. This project explores the idea that a portrait photograph can reveal an otherwise unseen and accurate insight into the subject’s character.

The subject is connected directly to the camera by hand-plates that measure biofeedback, which the camera depicts as an aura of color in the Polaroid and translates into a printed diagram and description explaining the camera�s interpretation of the subject. It also explains separately, what the the subject is expressing and how they are seen by others, such as the photographer, suggesting the camera bypasses the control of the photographer and subject in making the portrait. This printout, which includes information about the subjects emotions, potential, aspirations, future, etc. is presented to the viewer along with each photograph in a similar manner to a caption.

The aura camera has undertones of pseudo-scientific authority and attributes associated with a less mediated type of photography. It’s a modified land camera that uses instant film and has only one button, allowing the photographer little control over the mechanisms mediating the portrait making process.

Aura photography is a relatively recent offshoot of spirit photography. Unlike attempts to record images of ghosts, aura photography evolved from a type of spirit photography – popular around the time diagnostic imaging devices like the x-ray emerged — which sought to objectively measure and document unseen aspects of the human body.

I am photographing people who are familiar to me, or that I have expectations of — including friends and people whose personalities are in the public sphere.

Aura Project website

You must check also the Carl Van de Roer website