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Joel-Peter Witkin & Jerome Witkin: Twin Visions

June 30, 2014 — Leave a comment

Most are familiar with the incredible photographic tableaux’s  of Joel Peter Witkin but until this exhibition I did not know there was an equally talented yet estranged twin brother named Jerome Witkin. Take a few minutes and soak in the exhibition of a unique moment in the history of art; Separated twin artists reunited for the first time over 70 years later.

(Check out the video….Very interesting to see how their work (which is equally visionary in many respects) compares and contrasts).

Las Meninas, 1987. Gelatin Silver Print, 30 x 40 inches ©Joel-Peter Witkin & Courtesy of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

Las Meninas, 1987. Gelatin Silver Print, 30 x 40 inches
©Joel-Peter Witkin & Courtesy of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

 

Twin Visions: Jerome Witkin & Joel-Peter Witkin

An historic exhibition united two celebrated artists – identical twin brothers – Jerome Witkin & Joel-Peter Witkin

March 1, 2014 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles.

Jerome Witkin and Joel-Peter Witkin are acknowledged as two of the greatest contemporary artists in their respective genres. Jerome Witkin is a painter cited by critics and curators as the finest narrative contemporary artist. Joel-Peter Witkin is equally regarded as a master of his genre – a groundbreaking photographer famous for masterfully conjuring his uniquely surreal images. These identical twin brothers, artistically estranged, have enjoyed remarkable success during their respective careers spanning more than fifty years, have never exhibited together. Until now.

via Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

 

©Jerome Witkin THE GERMAN GIRL, 1997 Oil on Canvas Courtesy of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

©Jerome Witkin
THE GERMAN GIRL, 1997
Oil on Canvas
Courtesy of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

 

JOEL-PETER WITKIN & JEROME WITKIN : TWIN VISIONS

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ICP and the Worlds Biggest Free Photography Class

June 19, 2014 — Leave a comment


ICP has teemed up with Phonar Nation and the MacArthur Foundation’s Cities of Learning to provide 5 free courses in photography for anyone in the world.  The crowd-sourced classes thus far are:

  1. Looking for Light
  2. Seeing the Unseen
  3. Telling someone’s story
  4. Making Sense
  5. Moving Beyond Pictures

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Youth all over the world are being invited to help build Phonar Nation, the biggest photography storytelling class in history as a part of this year’s nationwide Cities of Learning initiative, supported by the MacArthur Foundation and powered by the Digital Youth Network and Badge Alliance.

Designed by award-winning photographer, National Teaching Fellow, and open education pioneer Jonathan Worth, Phonar Nation builds on his #Phonar (Photography and Narrative) class that was described in the European Parliament as “breaking new ground for photographers” and by Wired as “shaking up photo education”.

The Phonar Nation class is built on a mobile device, to be taught from a mobile device to a mobile user. Students learn to speak clearly with images and engage a connected audience. They learn to leverage and to be empowered by the network rather than feeling anonymised by it. Phonar Nation is more than photography; it is visual literacy and digital fluency for a connected 21st century.

Phonar Nation is presented in association with the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, Connected Learning Alliance, and Digital Youth Network. Phonar Nation’s partners also include World Press Photo in Amsterdam, OgilvyOne in Hong Kong and the International Center of Photography in New York, where the class will launch with the Phonar Nation Book-in-a-Box. The box features a uniquely curated selection of photography books and handmade journals, which, like a message in a bottle, will travel amongst selected Cities of Learning libraries, schools and community centers reifying the online Phonar Nation network as it goes.

Running concurrently with the Phonar Nation class, is the “Front Page” competition for the best youth stories.

Phonar Nation Photography classes are open to all for free.

via http://phonarnation.org/

 

ICP and the Worlds Biggest Free Photography Class

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Ilona Szwarc wins 2014 Arnold Newman Prize

June 12, 2014 — Leave a comment

The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture has been awarded to Ilona Szwarc for her series about American girls coupled with their look alike American Girl Dolls. Her work was highlighted on this blog back in 2013. Don’t miss her series on Rodeo Girls as it’s just as good.

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Ilona Szwarc (American and Polish) is an artist based in New York City. 
Szwarc received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at Foley Gallery in New York City, Claude Samuel gallery in Paris and Maison de la Photographie in Lille, France. Her projects “American Girls” and “Rodeo Girls” have received worldwide recognition, having been highlighted in The New York Times, The Telegraph, MSNBC, Today.com and The Huffington Post among others.

Via her web site

 

 

 

Ilona Szwarc wins 2014 Arnold Newman Prize

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Hiroshi Sugimoto and The Last Supper

June 8, 2014 — Leave a comment

Back in 1999 Hiroshi Sugimoto made a very large set of images depicting The Last Supper, which were photographs of wax models from a wax museum based on Di Vinci’s famous painting. (He did an entire series of portraits of wax models called Portraits and this work is from that series). This particular piece was in storage in a basement in New York when hurricane Sandy hit. The piece was severely damaged by the waters in the flooded basement. Instead of destroying the work Sugimoto has deemed it an act of God and is selling as such with a new title: The Last Supper: Acts of God now showing at the Fraenkel Gallery.

When god is your partner in making an artwork how can you go wrong in turning what is actually a destroyed work into an even more collectable piece? I will let you be the judge….

“I chose to interpret this as the invisible hand of God coming down to bring my monumental, but unfinished Last Supper to completion. Leonardo completed his Last Supper over five hundred years ago, and it has deteriorated beautifully. I can only be grateful to the storm for putting my work through a half-millennium’s worth of stresses in so short a time”. 

Hiroshi Sugimoto 

 

Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Last Supper: Acts of God, 1999/2012. © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Last Supper: Acts of God, 1999/2012. © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

The Last Supper: Acts of God (detail), 1999/2012 © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery,

The Last Supper: Acts of God (detail), 1999/2012 © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery,

 

Hiroshi Sugimoto and The Last Supper.  All photos and quotes via the Fraenkel Gallery.

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Thomas Brummett is Among the American Photography 30 Winners!

June 6, 2014 — Leave a comment

Looks like I was included in the prestigious American Photography 30 for my Light Projections.  This is my 5th award from American Photography (It was announced in April but I just found out about it!).  Congrats to all those chosen and the final winners selected for the book.

My work is here: http://www.ai-ap.com/slideshow/AP/30/#76

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Thomas Brummett is among the  American Photography 30 Winners!

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