All Things Art & Photography
Richard Serra walks us through his largest permanent installation Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Bilbao
He was not real impressed with the interior design of one of the most famous art museums on the planet…
“The architecture is a conceit, meaning that it’s tectonically untrue. I thought I would just take all that junk and dump it right in here as a some sort of institutional critique”
via http://youtu.be/iRMvqOwtFno
In the commercial world of portrait, still life and fashion photography everything starts with Irving Penn. There is not one photographer of note up until the 1990’s you could name whom he has not influenced. Photographers based entire careers making pictures informed by Penn’s incredible photographs (that are just as good today as ever). This survey of his work is installed beautifully and all the hits are here to feast your eyes on.
Via pacemacgill.com
Thomas Brummett: Video Interview at Schmidt Dean Gallery where he talks about his photographs of the Infinite from his new series The Infinities.
Following his new film WaterMark Edward Burtynsky takes on a very big subject with his usual exquisite large scale and meticulous photographs documenting mankind’s never ending plundering of the planet. Excellent video on the making of WaterMark below…
via Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC
The making of WaterMark
From September 12 to October 19, 2013, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery is delighted to present:
“Eikoh Hosoe: Curated Body 1959-1970,” featuring 34 vintage prints by the master Japanese photographer, Eikoh Hosoe. This exhibition is organized in association with Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. An opening reception will be held Thursday, September 12, 6-8pm.
Eikoh Hosoe (b. 1933) is widely acknowledged to be a pioneer of expressionistic post-WWII Japanese photography. Throughout an oeuvre spanning over fifty years, Hosoe has explored the human body’s physicality as a subject that reveals a shifting interior landscape of dreams and desires. The exhibition focuses on black-and-white photographs from Hosoe’s two seminal series Man and Woman (1959-1960) and Embrace (1969-1970). Produced ten years apart, these two series bookend a prolific decade of artistic production, solidifying Hosoe’s bold and dramatic aesthetics into a clear statement against the “objective” realism which was then the dominant photographic convention in Japan.
