An interview with Danish artist Asger Carlsen on his photographs, inspiration and reality vs. fiction.
Photographer We've only mentioned society portraitist Cecil Beaton in passing so far . Cecil was born in 1904 and after a patchy educa...
Hilary Faye, a Melbourne-based animator and artist, has been making a series of GIFs pulled from materials she's found online and animated through collage.
Today we are looking at some of the earliest Czech autochrome photographers. The Autochrome Lumière is an early color photography process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. It was the principal color photography process in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s. Commercial...READ MORE
i have featured images by photographer Gordon Parks many times on the blog, but have never done a post dedicated solely to his work. which is weird, considering he’s such a legend. he was the first…
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There’s a camaraderie amongst circus performers. Not only do you have the same job, but you’re on the road together for months out of the year.
Opium. The word conjures up a louche exotic world of artists, writers, low-life criminals and nubile young women out looking for kicks. The word alone is intoxicating. It imbues a feeling of both fear and longing. According to the dictionary, the word opium comes from Middle English, via Latin, via the Greek word opion, from diminutive of opos meaning sap or juice. Apparently, the word “opium” was first used in the 14th century. Opium is cultivated from the papaver somniferum, a poppy which has white or purple flowers and a globe shaped capsule containing yellow seeds. This plant has been cultivated in India, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and China. Its principal active ingredient is the alkaloid morphine or C17 H19 N O3. Opium gained its notoriety in the 19th-century with the advent of global trade and mass migration. Across Europe, upper-class writers and artists indulged their fancies by taking laudanum or eating opium leaves and pellets. The calming, soporific qualities of the drug were used in numerous medicines to treat babies, children, and adults. From teething problems to nervous disorders—opium was the medicine of the masses. The word opium has a complex history that can often be misrepresented to...
photographer: Klösz György - Kloess - (1844 Darmstadt -1913 Budapest) c.a: 1867-1870 gr. Lieszkovszky Károly és Telbisz Jani kártyázik
Eren Orbey on “Randy,” a series of black-and-white portraits by the Dutch photographer Robin de Puy.
Inspired by Edward Sheriff Curtis and his iconic portraits of Native Americans, photographer Jimmy Nelson and his 50 year old camera journeyed to 44 different countries, visiting more than 35 indigenous tribes and documenting their stories and…
‘Thrice Removed’ is the name of a photography book and project by British photographer David Stewart, which developed from David’s personal observations of relationships in families, society and life in general, featuring a series of somehow inter-related characters. Even though these picture often seem rather dark, there always is an underlying, essentially British humor that […]
Grotto in an iceberg, photographed during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, 5 Jan 1911 Photographer: Herbert Ponting Reference Number: PA1-f-067-12-04 Silver gelatin print Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library Find out more about this image from the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Seikan Ferry Boat, from The Solitude of Ravens, 1976, Masahisa Fukase
The rise of photography in the mid-late 19th-century began the move away from an oral and literary tradition towards one based on image. A photograph can describe a moment in time more viscerally than the written word. Think of that picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. A million words have been written … Continue reading "The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn"
Photographs from the personal collection of Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), a German-Austrian psychiatrist, early sexologist, and author of Psychopathia Sexualis, first published in 1886.
Debuting with Nan Goldin in 1987, Catherine Edelman Gallery has been a revered player in the art world for 30 years. Here, a wide-ranging interview with the gallery’s owner and founder.
The Italian nun grimaced at my camera, reviewing the photo that she had just snapped of me. We had to take another, she explained. The shriveled corpse to my...
Norwegian-Finnish artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen bring a folklore-inspired vision to the relationship between humans and nature. The majority of their subjects are elders who often have a deeper connection to the lands they inhabit, work on, or cultivate. In 2011, the pair started an imaginative series called Eyes as Big as Plates as a contemporary exploration of characters from Nordic folklore. Their photographic odyssey across 15 countries and creation of more than 100 portraits evolved into a general exploration of modern humans’ relationships to nature. More
Dutch artist Erwin Olaf captures the explosive power of Shanghai as part of a photographic trilogy. These works are exhibited until 07 June 2018 at Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris.
Nikolai Blokhin (Николай Блохин) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1968. His education in art began very early at the Art School for Gifted Children in 1980, and continued through his postgraduate work and professorship at the prestigious St. Petesburg Academy of Art. With more than 20 years of artistic studies Nikolai is a young master with unequaled genius. His paintings are the embodiment of the classics with a contemporary approach. The unique style of his paintings has not gone without notice. Nikolai has been the recipient of many awards, including the Russian Academy of Arts prestigious gold medal award for "Young Artist of the Year", the coveted Grand Prize at the American Society of Portrait Artists 2002 competition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Best of Show in the International Portrait Competition of the Portrait Society of America ,Boston, 2004. He is well versed in landscape and still life, as he is in portraiture. Nikolai's paintings are represented in some of the world's greatest collections, in Russia, the Netherlands, China, Belgium, Finland, and the United States.
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Image above: ©Doug DuBois, My Father in the Backyard, Far Hills, New Jersey,1985 / Courtesy of Aperture Gallery
If you’ve ever been curious about the inner workings of a violin, cello, flute, and/or pipe organ here it is. Art directed by photographer Bjoern Ewers, these macro shots are part of a print campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. Don’t you just love how spacious the hallow chambers appear? …
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Hotels on stilts, cribs on wheels and staircases through windows make up German photographer Frank Kunert’s playful microcosms
Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilising innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid autochromes. The tableaux of his autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first colour photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. Demure ladies and … Continue reading "Alfonse Van Besten’s Dreamy Autochromes (1910-1915)"
