Monday, May 21
Gloria Vanderbilt by Gordon Parks, 1961
Gloria Vanderbilt by Gordon Parks, 1961
Friday, May 18
Francesca Woodman / Polka Dots, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976. Courtesy George and Betty Woodman
The Guggenheim Museum is exhibiting a retrospective of the work of photographer Francesca Woodman through June 13th — don’t miss out on this show. Read more about Woodman on LightBox here.
Francesca Woodman is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s brief but extraordinary career to be seen in North America. More than thirty years after her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. Woodman’s oeuvre represents a remarkably rich and singular exploration of the human body in space and of the genre of self-portraiture in particular. Her interest in female subjectivity, seriality, Conceptualist practice, and photography’s relationship to both literature and performance are also hallmarks of the heady moment in American photography during which she came of age. This retrospective offers an occasion to examine more closely the maturation and expression of a highly subjective and coherent artistic vision. It also presents an important and timely opportunity to reassess the critical developments that took place in the 1970s in American photography and video.
Read more here.
Saw this exhibit a few weeks ago when my Mom came to visit. Absolutely beautiful photographs and a heartbreakingly short career. Go see it.
Saturday, May 5
Dapper Crooks
Vintage Mugshots. Also, check out the “Femme Fatales” at the bottom of the page.
(via Jake Snider)
Tuesday, April 24
“You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I think if an artist doesn’t take risks, then it’s not worth it.”Interview: Robert Frank, 2007 (via timelightbox)
Lots o’ shootin today!
YES.
Beautiful work, Regina.
Someone should invent glasses that let you see into the past!
In the meantime, Sergey Lerenkov’s photos do a good job. Here’s photos of Paris in the 1940s blended into photos of modern-day Paris.
Old Photos Blended into New Photos
via Reddit
This is so cool.
life:
What makes color photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson so rare?
There’s a reason, it turns out, why coming across his color photos can be so jarring; not only did Cartier-Bresson infrequently shoot in color, but he destroyed virtually all of his color negatives, leaving an almost exclusively black-and-white legacy to future generations. Finding out that Cartier-Bresson shot professionally in color — and sometimes worked on major assignments in color — is a bit like reading Just Kids and learning that Patti Smith is not only a poet, but a thrilling, moving, utterly masterful writer of prose. One has a sense of happy surprise and, somehow, of enlargement.
One of Cartier-Bresson’s most significant color projects was a 1958 assignment for LIFE: a four-month, 7,000 mile tour through communist China during that country’s convulsive “great leap forward,” when the huge, ancient nation was being alternately pushed and pulled, dragged and harried by its leaders to leave its past behind and to embrace industrialization, collectivism and the precepts of Chairman Mao.
See the layouts from this photo essay here.
(via nprradiopictures)
Monday, April 23
Soon, my pretty.
By ColorWare.com
That’s what I call fresh.
(via helloyoucreatives)
Saturday, April 21
April 20, 1950: The Woolworth Building reflected in a puddle in City Hall Park. The original caption deemed it “an eerie reflection of the skyline.” Photo: Arthur Brower/The New York Times
April showers.
