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Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
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Jeff Wall – Recent Works at Marian Goodman NY
Our very own Jeff Wall is showing at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York through January 21. This is the same gallery that shows some of my old heroes (John Baldessari) and new ones (Tacita Dean and Gerard Richter, both of whom I got more ...
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Friendly Ghosts
Russian artist Yevgeny Dobrovinsky uses the environment around him to give life to his creatures. They are everywhere: on the top of trees, in puddles, on sidewalks. He walks around town and parks with “magic eyes” in his pocket and carrying his camera. Isn’t it ...
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Maurizio Anzeri – Photography Meets Embroidery
Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds ...
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Man Ray at the MOA
Man Ray – African Art And The Modernist Lens brings to Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology more than Man Ray’s famous photographs of African objects. For the first time, a number of these photographs are presented along the original African objects they portrait. The exhibition raises ...
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Homemade is Best
Photographer Carl Kleiner shot this amazing pics for IKEA‘s new baking book, called “Hembakat är Bäst” (Homemade is Best). (via Today and Tomorrow)
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Phyllis Galembo
Phyllis Galembo is an American photographer and author of books on ethnic, cultural, Halloween, masquerade, ritual ceremony and dress from Africa and Caribbean. Last June, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art showed Galembo’s works alongside Nick Cave’s soundsuits. You can see photos here. Ngar Ball ...
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Cartier-Bresson at West Vancouver Museum
A rare exhibition of 25 plates of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson runs at the West Vancouver Museum through August 28. The photographs were selected from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and date from the 1930s and 40s. Master of the Instant ...
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The Edward Curtis Project Exhibition
The Edward Curtis Project is a multi-disciplinary work by Métis/Dene playwright Marie Clements and photojournalist Rita Leistner that blends theatre performance with photographic installation, exploring how historical photography and documentation continue to influence contemporary Aboriginal communities. The creators travelled across North America to conduct research, ...
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Last Days to See the Malcolmson Collection
Man Ray, Ady, c.1930, gelatin silver print This Sunday, December 20th, is the last day of The Malcomson Collection at Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver. Harry and Ann Malcolmson, from Toronto, have amassed a large collection over the past twenty-five years, going from vintage and historic ...
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Fred Lebain – Superimposed New York
This is totally my thing! Fred Lebain superimposes large printed photos he took of New York on the exact same spots, creating a tromp l’oeil image that he then re-photographs. Found on designboom