So, if this is a new genuine Banksy, what does it say? Follow the wild speculations here
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
New BANKSY?
So, if this is a new genuine Banksy, what does it say? Follow the wild speculations here
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
LIU ZHENG | The Chinese
From the Bookshelf || This book features 120 suggestive, and sometimes hard to look at, photographs taken by the Chinese artist Liu Zheng between 1994 and 2001. Zheng focuses on a broad cross section of the chinese society including the homeless, transvestites, drug-dealers, coal miners, Taoist priests, Buddhist monks, prostitutes .. you can also see some real tragic images of the darker side of China´s cultural history.
I do not know how the Chinese government would have presented their profile on the Chinese people .... probably not like Liu Zheng.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Petrol war ...
For the sixth time in a very short time, petrol prices reached "all time high" levels in Sweden ... Cheers!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Andre Kertesz "My France" in Stockholm
Upcoming exhibition || Andre Kertesz "My France" [16/3-27/5] opens on friday at Fotografiska in Stockholm. Kertesz´s outstanding experiments with artificial light, his perfect balance of the composition, angles and more revolutionized photography [and even influenced German expressionist filmmakers like Fritz Lang, F.W.Murnau, Robert Weine]. More about Kertesz here -----------|>
Monday, March 12, 2012
Lee Jeffries and the homeless
In 2008, former accountant and self-taught amateur photographer Lee Jeffries [from Manchester] was in London to participate in a marathon. While walking around in the streets of London he took some photos of a young homeless girl who was huddled in a sleeping bag. The young girl spotted him and started to scream ... instead of just walk away he approached the eighteen-year old girl and had a conversation with her. Her story had a profound effect on him and changed his artistic approach ... the homeless population now became the subject of his art. His haunting portraits are getting more and more noticed in media and internet ... soon a book will be published [YellowKorner]. Check out his portfolio at Flickr
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Rememberance .....
It is one year since the disaster "The Great Higashinhon Earthquake" and tsunami which killed over 19.000 thousand people and left small communities like Kesennuma, Rikuzen-Takada, Kamaishi devastated. In the beginning of the ninetíes respected Japanese photographer Koji Onaka travelled around and photographed this area of Sanriku, in the northern east cost of Japan. He collected some of these photographs in a book entitled Umimachi [SuperLabo, 2011]. Highly recommendable!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Paul Graham - 2012 Hasselblad Award Winner
"The Hasselblad Foundation is pleased to announce British photographer Paul Graham as the recipient of the 2012 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for SEK 1,000,000 (approximately GBP 95,000, US$150,000), The award ceremony will take place in London on March 8, 2012. An exhibition of his work, Paul Graham – 2012 Hasselblad Award Winner will open on October 26, 2012 at the Hasselblad Center at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden, in connection with which, one or more seminars will be arranged with the award winner"....
Paul Graham
W Eugene Smith
From the bookshelf ||
W Eugene Smith, one of photography´s legendary figures, published a series of memorable newspaper articles/photo-essays and books in his lifetime. The images from Nurse Midwife, Country Doctor, Albert Schweitzer - A Man of Mercy, Spanish Village and Minamata are of course unforgettable. Smith´s almost fanatically dedication to his mission as a photographer is remarkable... his obsession with the Pittsburgh project that turned a three week assignment into a never ending drama .. or his jazz loft project at 821 Sixth Avenue - posthumously immortalized in the books "Dream Street - W Eugene Smith´s Pittsburgh Project" [Sam Stephenson, 2001] and "The Jazz Loft Project" [Sam Stephenson, 2009] .... Read more about the Jazz Loft Project here.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Alexandre Orion | "Skulls of Sao Paolo"
Couldn´t resist Part 6 | Brazilian graffiti artist/photographer Alexandre Orions amazing reverse graffiti mural inside the Max Feffer street-Tunnel in Sao Paolo [2007]. This project, "Skulls of Sao Paolo", is Orions attempt in getting a greener world ... How can we with easy methods fight against the heavy pollution that is a growing problem in the urban landscape. Orion´s method in this project is simple but at the same time genius .. his choice of medium, reverse graffiti, is in fact cleaning, removal of dirt... With a wet rag he scrubbed away parts of the layer of soot from the walls inside the tunnel until the white surface stared through as a eerie catacomb of skulls. The Sao Paolo state police tried, of course, to arrest him but quickly realised that he was actually cleaning the wall/city ... something the goverment should have done years ago. As they washed and removed the art .. Orion kept working on the rest of the tunnel .. resulting in a clean-up of the whole tunnel. Just in a few weeks after the city started a clean-up campaign in the city ......
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Andreas Gursky .. Is photography dead?
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark opened 2012 with a monster exhibition by photographys own Damien Hirst, the german uber-star photographer Andreas Gursky [Jan. 13th - May 13th].
"The exhibition spans the whole of Gursky’s oeuvre up to the very latest photographs presented this autumn in the artist’s gallery, Gagosian Gallery in New York – and thus gives the viewer the opportunity to follow the transformations and transformative powers of the images through more than two decades". Before I went to the exhibition I tried to do my homework to understand Gurskys photographs and "visual art". But unfortunately, this very ambitious exhibition told me nothing. Maybe I didn´t do my homework well .. but to me, it seems that Gursky is becoming more of a brand than what I call an artist [or photographer]. And of course, an exhibition like this, reminds me of the debates over the whole concept photography, not only if analog photography is dead. SFMOMA has been collecting and exhibiting photographs since it´s opening and has always been dedicated to the examination of the medium in all its form. In April 2010, they arranged a major symposium, "Is Photography Over", on the current state of photography. Follow some interesting conversation here.
And ... if you visit Louisiana ... don´t miss Yayoi Kusama´s hypnotic "Gleaming Lights of the Souls" .. and her exhibitions at Tate Modern and The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
Monday, March 5, 2012
10 Most wanted .. for now.
So what can we expect in 2012 - How many new books by Daido Moriyama and what is going on in Göttingen .. more nice items from Steidl? I´ve been browsing around a couple of publishers web-sites and found these titles .. [more to follow]
Daido Moriyama | Okinawa (Tentative)/SuperLabo .... another release
Gerry Johansson | Deutchland/Steidl ... postphoned for decades it feels ..
Christer Strömholm | The Lido Exhibition/Steidl ... previously unknown works
Rodchenko | Rodchenko/Steidl
Keizo Kitajima | Photo Express, Tokyo/Steidl ... re-release of a classic ...
Anders Petersen | Innocense/SuperLabo
Don Kirby and Joan Gentry | The Anasazi Project/Nazraeli
Anders Petersen | Soho/Mackbooks
Walker Evans | Decade by Decade/HatjeCantz
Daido Moriyama vs Klein | Tate exhibition catalog or?
Thursday, March 1, 2012
New BANKSY in March
According to various rumors, PR-genius Banksy is about to release a new print called "Gorilla". Follow the drama here or here ... and don´t forget to warm up your index "F5íng" finger.
Edit: "postponed due to technical difficulties" ... well
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Edit: "postponed due to technical difficulties" ... well
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