Mclean, Virginia, 1978 (C) Sternfeld and Luhring Augustine, New York
This is really great. Joel Sternfeld’s “Color Photographs since 1970” is exhibiting at Foam Amsterdam. If you’re in town between 16 Dec — 14 March 2012, go and check it out. Recommended!
Angelo Badalamenti describes how he came up with the theme for Twin Peaks, while David Lynch was sitting beside him. I guess this says it all — so great.
A fragment taken from the Twin Peaks series special features “Secrets from another place – creating Twin Peaks”.
4,6000.00 Hours, London 2004 © Alastair Thain
I always find myself fascinated by artists that make their own gear to fit their work-flow and achieve the compelling results they do. Alastair Thain is such a photographer. As an idea partly inspired by the US military, that used large format cameras equipped with powerful airborne flashes to photograph the Vietnam jungle at night, so does Alastair build his own custom made camera constructions to photograph his scenes.
Library. from ‘The City’ © 2010 Lori Nix
It’s not often that I find myself “transported” into someone else’s world, which is odd since it’s my favorite recreational activity! The World of Lori Nix is full of fascination and curious stories, told with a whimsy sense of humor and a lot of patience. Dealing with themes such as the apocalypse, danger and disaster,
Zelda from the self titled movie. © Maaike Holvast
Visited today the presentation of Maaike Holvast’s “New York Style Stories” @ Mediamatic. Along side the nice 5 films portraing different New York characters, there where also lovely still portraits of the characters hanging there shot by my buddy Stephen Elledge.
Go watch the films online (and soon the photos) @ limboland.
This Summer and Fall I have been filming 6 different New Yorkers for my web-series, New York Style Stories which has been programmed at Limboland.tv The 5th Episode of the series is up this weekend and the 6th one is programmed for Sunday the 19th.
Besides the movie portraits, photographer Stephen Elledge has also taken great still portraits of all 6 characters.
Just visited this show today. Very very extensive selection of work from this highly talented duo Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, showing their development since the early days till the sub-iconic status they have right now. Highly recommended!
© Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
The show runs till September 15th.
more info here.
1968 © Paul Fusco / Magnum
I’ve blogged about this compelling series some time ago, but since it’s the first time in The Netherlands that we are able to admire the prints on the wall, it’s certainly worth mentioning it again.
For “Funeral Train”, Paul Fusco of Magnum photo agency, traveled in June 8th 1968 on a special train from New York to Washington. On that train was the body of Robert F Kennedy, the Presidential candidate and the 2nd son to the Kennedy’s, who was shot 3 days earlier in Los Angeles. Fusco portrayed the thousands of mourners who gathered along the tracks to wave goodbye to their assassinated Presidential candidate.
These photos by Fusco remained hidden to the public in the US for a long time,
I’m almost positive all of you who already watched Zombieland know all this to be true. I gave it another watch this weekend and realized yet again just how brilliant the opening title sequence really is! Being a zombie comedy flick, the opening sequence is as gruesome as it is hilarious, showing people being hunted by blood-crazed zombies. Each mini-scenario is carefully constructed
The Fall. © 2010 Aurel Schmidt / Courtesy of The Whitney Museum.
(Pencil, colored pencil, acrylic, beer, dirt, and blood on paper)
Really like her work!
Read more about Aurel Schmidt at the Whitney Biennial.
Recently I’ve purchased this interesting dvd Contacts, Vol. 2: The Renewal of Contemporary Photography. It’s the 2nd out of a series of 3 dvds, based on an idea by William Klein (directed Vol.1), which is a collection of short films about some of the leading names in contemporary photography. The photographers give commentary while going through
© 2008 Edith Maybin. from "The Conversion Document."
Edith Maybin‘s work is mesmerizing as it is subversive. Staged Role plays, costumes and image manipulation take part in making the final images, as a “study of the mother/daughter bond“.
Her work can be seen as part of the exhibition “Au feminin” (Women Photographing Women), in the Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris, till September 29th.
These are some favorites of mine from Edith’s work:
© Massimo Vitali. Catania Under the Volcano #2806. 2007
The Italian photographer Massimo Vitali (1944, Como) is famous for his monumental photographs of large groups of people. These focus especially on contemporary leisure time activities: the beach, the disco, mass tourism. Typical of his work is the congregation of a large, impersonal group, in which details and individual stories can nevertheless be identified. Vitali’s photos are the result of a complex work process. He usually uses a classic wooden Deardorff 11-x-14-inch camera to record everything with the greatest of precision and from an elevated vantage point. The images are then digitally enlarged to form impressive panoramas. The results are images with an extremely wide visual field and at the same time a high degree of detail.
The exhibition in Foam comprises Vitali’s new work, complemented by an overview of existing work.
May 29 – September 9, 2009
photo Warner Bros Entertainment
It’s something else this one. The good kind of Something. Can a 20 years old Summer Bishil pull off a 13 year old adolescent? oh yes she can! Good movie.
© 2011 Angus R. Shamal
