All Things Art & Photography
The Exhibition: Boris Mikhailov Four Decades is a 40 year small but knockout survey of one of the most famous Russian photographers alive. See the reality of a failed empire through the eyes of an artist.
Bori Mikhailov: Four Decades November 23, 2013 – February 8, 2014
Dominique Lévy Gallery 909 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
via: http://www.dominique-levy.com
Check out the new sculpture of Benedetto Bufalino. Reminds me of something that we would see in a Road Runner cartoon…
“In keeping with the theme of his humorous urban interventions, french artist Benedetto Fufalino has sent a residential caravan soaring into the sky. ‘la caravane dans le ciel’ is a mobile trailer situated atop a sky jack that slowly moves upwards towards the clouds. towering over trees and building-tops, the hybrid habitat is gradually lifted into the air and at night, the mysterious illusion lights up the sky with its illuminated interior windows”.
via Design Boom
Peter Beard has spent his life fighting for the natural world. He knows more about the effects of man on nature than just about any other human being alive. (except for maybe George Monbiot , Jane Poynter or Bernie Krause ) He also just happens to be one of the great image-makers of all time. (His notebooks are legendary). Great interviews; one short and one long by Lars Bruun and Dereck Peck. Spend 30 min with a real genius and true warrior.
On Mankind: “…(Da Vinci) knew that only the creature that could appreciate all this beauty comes on the scene and sure enough, destroys what only what he can appreciate…”
On learning from the elephants: “…The entire ecology of the elephant is more similar to us than any other animal. What have they done to their habitat? They ate it, they trampled it, they died. You would think we would take a hint from their demise… “
(And now for a little bit of self promotion…)
“All the Light Projection prints are 8×10″ handmade, unique and one of a kind silver analog prints. Light is projected through an optical lens onto silver black and white photo paper and then developed in the darkroom via my entropic processes I have developed over the years to bring out certain varied aspects of the print grain by the manipulation of the silver metals in the paper using a variety of darkroom re-development techniques, brushes, bleaches and toners (and in these images a dash of Solarisation).
The prints are camera-less and film-less images – but they are not Photogram’s (nothing was placed on the surface of the paper). So I call them Light Projections. I am still trying to figure out if these have ever been made in the history of photography – in quite this way – as the circles are purely optical in nature and are really those “Bokeh like” Circles of Confusion that a lens can produce.”
Light Projection Variation #2 46×66″ edition of 5 (from unique silver gelatin prints)
Light Projection Variation #1 40×95″ Edition of 5, (from unique silver gelatin prints)
Light Projection #4 36×46″ Edition of 5, (from unique silver gelatin prints)
via www.studio-4a.com The Light Projections of Thomas Brummett
Nice interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto about how he works and more importantly thinks about photography and especially time and memory.