This (NSFW) video for El Guincho’s track Bombay has got a million lo-fi tricks up it’s visual sleeve and is a perfect pick-me-up for this late Sunday afternoon’s winter “white skies / coffee cups /strewn newspaper /photo editing / trying to decide which documentary to watch on Netflix ” kinda vibe. If you want a [...]
There is a John Cohen photo hanging on the door to my local supermarket! It’s a flyer for The Dust Busters, a band that he collaborates with, but finding it amongst the fruits and vegetables was a rather shocking place to see such an esteemed photographer’s work. Here’s a link to Yasha Aginsky‘s 2009 documentary [...]
I’ve told people my lesson for photography—which I probably stole from you at one point. [...] Frame the picture. Make the greatest, most prefect composition you can… and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting. –Larry Clark, in conversation with Ralph Gibson, Interview Magazine, Oct 2010.
From Jerry Saltz in the comments page of New York Magazine’s site about his favorite paintings in New York City: Dear Readers, Thanks for reading this column about my favorite paintings in New York museums. Do you have an inner art-critic dying to get out and get published? Maybe I can help. I’m expanding this [...]
I came across the 4×5 work of Dannielle Nelson Mourning recently and I am particularly captivated by the open-ended quality of this picture. There is much to read into the filmic nature of the gesture (she is casual, yet determined and I have to wonder what happens next). The look on her face (deep in [...]
Got model releases? No? This little bit of info should inspire you. Ann Kirsten Kennis says there isn’t a release for the picture of her on the cover of the Vampire Weekend release Contra. According to Entertainment Weekly: “Kennis is asking the band, label XL Recordings, and photographer Tod Brody for at least $2 million [...]
I’m pretty excited that Alessandra Sanguinetti‘s “The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams” is finally coming out. I’ve been hoping to find an inexpensive copy of Light Work’s Contact Sheet 120 for a while. This body of work was first published there as far as I know. There is [...]
I used to read more when my day job was a 45 minute commute to midtown, but I finished Scott Bradfield‘s The People Who Watched Her Pass By a couple of weeks ago. The book is sad and hilarious and there are passages so descriptively vivid I swear I’ve already seen the photograph: “Grandma was [...]