Obama Inaugration
These images truly reveal a new political tide arriving. Absolutely amazing and truly motivating.
from http://rachelhulin.com/blog/
Is there a new photographer in the White House?
5 Year Anniversary:
The Mars Exploration Rover Mission
On January 4, 2004, the first of two Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the Martian surface. The goal of the rovers was to search for and analyze rocks and soils that yield clues to the planet's watery past. Gallery
Andreas Gursky and The Contemporary Sublime
from http://www.americansuburbx.com/
Andreas Gursky and The Contemporary Sublime
Art Journal, Winter, 2002 by Alix Ohlin
The German photographer Andreas Gursky takes pictures of enormous spaces--stock exchanges, skyscrapers, mountain peaks--in which crowds of people look tiny and relentless, making their presence felt in the world, like a minute, leisurely colony of ants. Also like ants, these people appear to spend little time examining their own encroachment--architectural, technological, and personal--on the natural world. In their determined, oblivious way, the people in his photographs make clear that there is no longer any nature uncharted by man. In place of nature we find the invasive landmarks of a global economy Taken as a whole, Gursky's work constitutes a map of the postmodern civilized world.
The Collector's Guide to Emerging Photography
from Liz Kuball Photography | Blog
Humble Arts Foundation called The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography. The book features photographs from more than 165 emerging photographers*, plus each photographer’s contact information. It will be distributed to collectors, art dealers, gallery directors, photo editors, museum professionals, and independent curators.
Artist Highlight: Holly Andres at DNJ in LA
With a suite of fifteen color photos in a show called "Sparrow Lane," Holly Andres has marked off a brilliantly chromatic bit of cinematic turf for fine art photography. In some respects, Andres's narrative images amplify the aesthetic concerns first delineated by Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin and Lauren Greenfield. Sherman's chameleonic self-enacted narrative deconstructed B-movie images of women and Greenfield's deceptively casual portraits of adolescent females critiqued a culture- wide consensus of sexual identity. In an atmospheric array of compelling photo images, Andres has combined both these conceptual issues and dramatically moved beyond them into a mysterious and starkly symbolic world. This realm seems to tap directly and powerfully into a collective, unconscious mind where archetypes loom and elide portentously through light and shadow.
