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Bruce Springsteen's Original Video for "Dancing In The Dark"

2011-07-31T19:48:00.002-04:00

Raw footage from the original music video shoot of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark." Somethings are better left unknown and unseen. Watch at your own risk. Via Gothamist.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sharing My Work Online

2011-07-25T00:46:00.002-04:00

© Anneke Joris Blake Andrew's post about the unauthorized proliferation of Melanie Einzig's photograph of a man knitting on the subway highlights an all too familiar tension between content producers and content sharers in the age of social networks. The reality is that if you live and work as an artist on the web you are choosing to both exist in a constant grey area between copyright law and

The Future of Photography, Again

2011-07-15T14:18:00.001-04:00

Google Street Views © Jon Rafman Future of photography exhibitions always intrigue me. I find them interesting not because they give me wormhole access to content that lives just beyond art’s event horizon, but because the exercise of curators lusting for predictive immortality while displaying a passive hostility towards the status quo they've created makes for curious sport. Most of the future

Photography Commons

2011-06-27T23:12:00.002-04:00

Yuen-Fu Monastery, Formosa, 1870, John Thomson One of the great joys of the past few years has been the movement by museums, libraries and archives to digitize and make accessible hundreds of thousands of photographs in their collections. It amazes me how little The Commons is discussed in the endless debates about the pros and cons of digitization. Never before have so many images by masters and

No Direction Home

2011-05-23T20:51:00.001-04:00

Kylie, Stockton, California © Alec Soth I'm happy to have a few of my Stranded images among such good company in No Direction Home, an exhibition for the curated by good friend Stacy Mehrfar for the Head On Photo Festival. The show focuses on contemporary interpretations of the tradition of American road photography. The details: No Direction Home Curated by Stacy Arezou Mehrfar Featuring

Sidney Lumet RIP

2011-04-09T19:52:00.001-04:00

The great American director, Sidney Lumet, has passed. A master of social realism, Mr. Lumet's filmography includes some of the great titles in the history of cinema.

Spoek Mathambo and Pieter Hugo Collaborate on New Video

2011-03-06T21:18:00.002-05:00

The new video from Fader favorite Spoek Mathambo is a cover of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control." If the video feels hauntingly familiar perhaps it's because Spoek collaborated with South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, to pull it off. (Hat tip to Michael Itkoff.)

Perfect Match

2011-02-27T00:50:00.035-05:00

UPDATE: And still yet another 'match'. Commenter, BabyCakes, points me to the image below made by Melvin Sokolsky in 1960. A portrait of Salma Hayek by Cass Bird appears on the cover of the 2011 Women's Spring Issue of the New York Times T Magazine. When I saw the image, I immediately thought of Josephine Meckseper's photograph Pyromaniac 2 and I tweeted that the T Magazine cover was clearly a "

Vivian Maier Goes Mainstream

2011-01-31T14:17:00.001-05:00

I first wrote about Vivian Maier in 2009 and since that time she has been discovered and canonized by street photographers around the globe. With a new book of her work slated for release this fall, a documentary about her discovery and retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Center it looks like she is finally getting the mainstream attention she deserves. CBS video via Art Most Fierce.

Doug Dubois

2011-01-29T13:30:00.001-05:00

Great interview with Doug Dubois by Sunday & Wednesday. Doug is a national treasure and a great friend. Via Liz Kuball.

A Few Questions for Jo Ann Walters

2010-12-16T22:26:00.002-05:00

© Jo Ann Walters I met Jo Ann Walters in the summer of 2002 at the Maine Photography Workshops. I was working as a teaching assistant, helping a different photographer each week in the classroom. That summer would end up being an important one for me personally and professionally. I was new to photography and hungry to absorb as much as I could from the teachers and students who were passing

Stranded at NADA

2010-12-02T13:12:00.000-05:00

Cheerleaders, New Orleans, Louisiana © Amy Stein I am equally mesmerized and repulsed by art fairs in general and the annual Miami art fair fete in particular. I love the opportunity to see so much work in one place, but often it is presented without context and the whole air of commerce can be overwhelming. It's a love, love, hate, love kind of thing for me. Sadly, this year I will not be

Things Fall Apart in Berlin

2010-11-17T10:49:00.001-05:00

This Friday Things Fall Apart opens at Pool Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition is my first curatorial foray at Pool and features a stellar lineup of artists. When Pool approached me about curating a show of work that was in dialog with my Stranded series I immediately started to make a shortlist of artists in my head. It was important to me that the show feature all women artists because we are

Halloween in Harlem Prints Now Available on 20x200

2010-10-27T14:53:00.001-04:00

Untitled (Hulk) and Untitled (Powerpuff Girls) from my Halloween in Harlem series are now available from 20x200. I am a big believer in the 20x200 mission of (limited editions × low prices) + the internet = art for everyone and was flattered when they asked me to participate. For my 20x200 edition I made the decision to offer C-prints which meant hand printing every last photo. It almost killed

Halloween in Harlem and 20x200 This Wednesay

2010-10-25T08:27:00.004-04:00

Two photos from my Halloween in Harlem series will be available this Wednesday on 20x200. I can't divulge which images until Wednesday, but the prints look great and you will definitely be pleased. For my edition I decided to hand make C-prints. Individually printing over a thousand photographs in four days almost ruined me, but I'm very pleased with the final product and happy to be working

Chinese Mao Impersonators

2010-10-08T23:32:00.000-04:00

Are Fireflies Disappearing?

2010-09-30T23:35:00.000-04:00

Untitled (19), 1996 © Gregory Crewdson First it was bees and now fireflies? There has been much anecdotal evidence that fireflies populations are in decline. The Museum of Science wants to know for sure and has started Firefly Watch, a ten year citizen scientist driven mission, to find out. (Via Treehugger)

A Few Questions for Chris Verene

2010-09-28T22:21:00.007-04:00

© Chris Verene, 2007 I’ve been familiar with Chris Verene’s photographs since I started graduate school at the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Chris was a critique teacher there, and although I never had the chance to study with him I was always curious about his highly saturated, unsettling and poignant images of his extended family. Chris has been photographing his relatives in Galesburg,

A Line Describing The Sun

2010-09-25T16:16:00.000-04:00

William Lamson is a fellow POCer and one of the most original, witty and creative artists working today. For his latest project, A Line Describing The Sun, William has finally scaled his genius to its appropriate size. A Line Describing the Sun involved a day long performance in which I followed the path of the sun with a large Fresnel lens mounted on a rolling apparatus. The lens focuses the

Digital Cameras Are Just So...Confusing

2010-09-22T09:26:00.002-04:00

From Little Brown Miscellanea.

The Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names

2010-09-21T11:10:00.003-04:00

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When Werner Herzog Rescued Joaquin Phoenix

2010-09-16T08:43:00.000-04:00

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix from Sascha Ciezata on Vimeo.

Evolve or Die

2010-09-14T23:31:00.001-04:00

© Mona Lisa Productions I'm a bit of an evolution junkie. I'm particularly fascinated by the idea of evolution in real time. We tend to think of evolution as something that happens over millions of years, but there is evolutionary change happening right under our noses. See this story on Live Science about fish in southern Mexico who are adapting to a centuries old, yearly religious ceremony

Senhorinha do Rá!

2010-09-14T00:37:00.001-04:00

Found Science Images

2010-09-13T23:11:00.004-04:00

Dopamine crystals viewed with polarized light © Spike Walker From "How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb" Behavior of waves © Berenice Abbott