David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed - London, 1972
At the Dorchester Hotel. Get your own print at Christie’s.
(⇒ via spin via kyu)
Posts tagged with photography
Heiden Hotel
Michael Kenna, Heiden Hotel, 1978.
See also: Classic Catskills, Borscht Belt, more Heiden photos, Sweet Lorraine, and up in flames.
[this is good]
Desert Indoors
Alvaro Sanchez-Montañes photographed houses that have been overcome by the desert in Namib.
(⇒ via rachel hulin)
Black Mirror
Liz Deschenes, Black Mirror #1, 2010
Silver toned photogram mounted on Dibond, 44 1/4” x 60 1/4”
Color Management!
I was trying to find out whats bigger the Flatiron Building or the Sphinx (the Egyptian one) and I came across this awesome photo of the Flatiron Building by Edward Steichen, but it was small, so I went to Google Image Search to find a bigger one. Internet, lets try to figure this color shit out next, ok? (Still not sure about the original question.)
maybe you should go take a look at it at the met. it sounds like the color variation is due to different prints of the photograph:
Steichen added color to the platinum print that forms the foundation of this photograph by using layers of pigment suspended in a light-sensitive solution of gum arabic and potassium bichromate. Together with two variant prints in other colors, also in the Museum’s collection, The Flatiron is the quintessential chromatic study of twilight.
Car Crash Studies
Nicolai Howalt, Untitled # 5 (Car Crash Studies), 2009
Photograph mounted on aluminum, 180 x 220 cm.
ballardesque. cronenbergesque.
Laptopograms
Seen in this full screen laptopogram are After the Bath by William Bouguereau, Poppy in Klotski, terminal running dmesg, and the Phoenix fractal from Xaos.
Laptopograms are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms.
‘Laptopogram’ is a misnomer - I reckon they can be made with pretty much any monitor. Perhaps ‘Luminous Screen Emulsion Transfers’ is a better.
Here, however, the negative is a digital image - and is flashed for a little time onto the paper before developing the image in a darkroom.
(⇒ via bruces)
Brings to mind Van Eck phreaking.
III (from Ten Large Photographs)
Sarah Conaway, III (from Ten Large Photographs), 2007
Archival inkjet print, 40 x 50”
Smoke Bath
Aram Tanis’s work from from Smoke Bath.
Smoke Bath is a collection of photographs and art work loosely based on the theme of camping, nature, and exploring.
The goal of Smoke Bath is to showcase the work of artists that are inspired by nature and raise money for freshair.org in the process. The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that provides free summer vacations to New York City children from low-income communities.
(⇒ via reference library)
A Line Where You Find It
The Kenneth Josephson show at Gitterman closes this week.
From top to bottom:
- Chicago, 1963
- Chicago, 1964
- New York State, 1970
See more work here.
Ishihara Test in Lightbrite
Matthew Gamber, Ishihara Test in Lightbrite, 2010
Digital gelatin silver print
The Ishihara Color Test is a test for red-green color deficiencies. It was named after its designer, Dr. Shinobu Ishihara, a professor at the University of Tokyo, who first published his tests in 1917.
sweet as hell
Forgotten Educational Topographies
Matthew Gamber, Untitled (Chalkboard #4), 2006
Digital gelatin silver print
Matthew Gamber’s None of the Things it Contemplates series, creates beautifully marred landscapes from old chalkboards.
The temporary schematics drawn on these boards to emphasize abstract ideas are now embedded in the slate. A useful chalkboard has no history; a used chalkboard is history. What was once empty is now full of information.
“Ry? He’s an Ohio-based connoisseur of palimpsests, I guess.”