Category Archives: miscellaneous
A one person shooting by Britta Thie
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My project: marble figures, life size, female, nude, formally posed, and with attributes in the form of weapons (modern firearms and knives of varying types and sizes). My techniques are anachronistic, following closely those of the late 18th / early 19th century. The softness and semi-transparency of good marble has a way of almost becoming flesh, in a way as much beautiful as it is obscene. It is also an ideal material for achieving exquisite contrasts between hard and soft, a quality I use more and more both in the figures and in the attributes round them.
A Road Divided by Todd Hido
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.
Ed Ruscha Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1962 – Photographer
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
WRONG by Asger Carlsen
“Based on a true story” Asger Carlsen’s series is a haunting and disturbing perspective of the everyday.In some cases subtly surreal and in other blatantly blasted with a dystopian hallucinations, the series is visionary and original.By employing a traditional black and white palette, Wrong peers past reality into a parallel existence.The series is more then appropriate during a time in which there has been lobbying and calls to label beguilingly photoshopped advertorials with warnings. Through using the same mechanisms and tools of the trade, Wrong has broke through the looking-glass into a parallel visual culture, opposing our present perception of hyper-reality and constructed beauty.Dark and humorous, the absurdity and distortion of Wrong is a satirical travesty of photographic culture as the ultimate simulator and the simulacrum.
Book WRONG by Morel Books
ERWIN OLAF a FORMA
dal 17 giugno al 12 settembre 2010
tutti i giorni dalle 11 lle 21
Giovedì e Venerdì dalle 11 alle 23
lunedì chiuso
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
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MARCONOFRI at ETE DES PORTRAITS
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.
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
