from PIX Feed by
"As with most of Warhol’s work you can see how influential the screen tests have become. It would be hard to count how many music videos and ads have taken off from these. For more than four decades it’s been difficult to see the films, but next month, Plexifilm are releasing "13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests" a 60 minute film featuring 13 of the tests (including Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, and Dennis Hopper) along with a newly commissioned soundtrack by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips. The musicians were picked by The Warhol Museum’s curators, one would imagine for their Velvet Underground style cool, but it’s an inspired choice that creates a timeless continuum for the first authorized DVD of Warhol’s seminal short films."
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THE INDECISIVE MOMENT: FRANK, KLEIN, AND ‘STREAM-OF-CONSIOUSNESS’ PHOTOGRAPHY
By Gerry Badger
from American Suburb X Blog
"In the United States during the mid-1950s, two photographers were each making the works that would eventually form two of the most renowned photobooks of the twentieth century – William Klein’s New York (1955) and Robert Frank’s Les Americains (1958). Both were expatriates of a kind, one returning for a brief period to his homeland after living in Europe, the other an immigrant to the United States from Switzerland. Though very different from each other, these two books introduced a new kind of attitude into photography. The work was rough, raw, and gestural. It was spontaneous and immediate, highly personal, echoing both the uncertain mood of the era and the characteristics that marked much of the art – especially the American art – of the 1950s."
To Be Determined
By Shane Lavalette from http://www.shanelavalette.com
"There is an excellent group show currently up at Andrew Kreps which deserves some attention. The exhibition, titled To Be Determined, is described by the press release as being “centered around a generation of artists whose work stretch the limits of photography. Portraiture and self-portraiture, archiving, and typology, as well as free-form fiction are at the core of their exploration of the medium.” It goes on,
The selection of artists, some of whom would not consider themselves to be solely photographers, have interrogated the medium, and expanded its conventional definition. When looking at the group, one may question whether there is indeed a circumscribed, or unified practice of photography. But while utilizing strategies that diffuse its understanding, this group of artists can be unified by their focused engagement with their subject matter.
The artists on display include Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, Phil Collins, Liz Deschenes, Roe Ethridge, Annette Kelm, Peter Piller, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan, and Torbjørn Rødland.
If you’re in New York, do yourself a favor and stop in to see this before it comes down. The show will be up through March 7th."
A Collection of Self-Portraits
from Fugitive Vision by Evan Mirapaul
"I've just found a new blog I like called A Collection of Self Portraits. I've added it to my "Blogs I Like" section so you can click on it to find the site. I really enjoy these themed, photo based blogs I stumble on now and then. I may even convince myself to start one or two myself. All themes are not created equal, and I think this blog shows what a durable, malleable, and ever-fresh theme the self -portrait is. Take a look.....http://selfportraitgallery.blogspot.com/"
What is Showing in LA You ASK
Holly Andres - Sparrow Lane (Till Feb 14, 2009) LINK
Julie Blackmon - Domestic Vacations (Till March 7, 2009) LINK
Jeremy Kidd - Fictional Realities (Till March 7. 2009) LINK
Joseph Rodríguez - Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City (Feb 14-March 15, 2009) LINK
Todd Walker - A Legacy of Images (Till Feb 21,2009) LINK
John Divola – Dark Star (Till Mar 7, 2009) LINK
Lucien Clergue – the Intimate Picasso (Till March 21, 2009) LINK
Group f/64 (Till March 21, 2009) LINK
Kim Weston - Painted Photographs (Till April 10, 2009) LINK
Carlos and Jason Sanchez (Feb 21 - April 18, 2009) LINK
David Fokos - New Work (March 14 - April 18, 2009) LINK
George Tice - American Photographer (Feb 21 - April 30, 2009) LINK
Erwan Frotin - Strangers (Mar 21 - May 30, 2009) LINK
Balthasar Burkhard (Mar 10 - May 31, 2009) LINK
Joseph Sterling - Age of Adolescence (June 6 - July 11, 2009) LINK
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