Sunday, January 27, 2008

Brian Wilson



Beach Boys by Peter Blake, 1964. Screenprint on paper. 53 x 30.8cm. Tate © Peter Blake

The Guardian has a little web gallery that features artwork from the exhibition If Everybody Had an Ocean - Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition at Tate St. Ives here

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Kishin Shinoyama


Kishin Shinoyama Twin, 1969

Jousse Entreprise in Paris has a nice link of fantastic black and white photographs of Japanese Photographer Kishin Shinoyama...here.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Matias Aguilar - Rink (Part 5 ) - 2008


Copyright Matias Aguilar

here for more pictures from my Rink series

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Susan Carr


Lincoln Relief, Mervin and Jean Jackson Home, Leesburg, Virginia, 2001
Copyright Susan Carr
At the site of The Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection in Chicago I came across Susan Carr's Personal Spaces series. Her artist statement reads as follows...

Personal Spaces: Details of American Homes

In early 2000 I began photographing the homes of people who have lived in the same place for forty years or more. The impetus for this work was a visit to my Aunt's childhood home in Jackson, Mississippi. Sitting in Mildred's dining room in a home she has lived in for forty-nine years, I realized that this kind of personal space was fast becoming one of our few remaining unique environments. Jackson, like so many other American cities, is plagued with urban sprawl that has deadened the city center and homogenized the surrounding landscape. In a country that prides itself on individualism, it is now possible to buy the same cup of coffee, the same clothes, and the same meal from one coast to the other.
Shortly after my visit to Jackson, I set out to photograph the details of American homes. I have long been fascinated with the way objects and places resonate and reveal the depth of a given moment...more here