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Samantha Contis

Even though Samantha Contis has a lot of good portraiture on her website, I actually like her landscapes better.

Posted on May 16, 2008 2:40 PM | Permalink

Elizabeth Fleming

Elizabeth Fleming's "Life is a series of small moments" is a photographic portrayal of her own family life. She also maintains a blog that can be found here.

Posted on May 15, 2008 12:36 PM | Permalink

Things will quiet down here just a tiny little bit as I'm heading to New York for the Photo Festival and various other things...

Posted on May 14, 2008 6:43 PM | Permalink

Dina Kantor

Dina Kantor's "Finnish & Jewish" is a wonderful project.

Posted on May 14, 2008 8:53 AM | Permalink

"Formed at the Documenta'97 exhibition, Rechenzentrum search for new processes of music/moving image production, while refining forms of presentation which create on-stage dialogue between audio and video."

Posted on May 13, 2008 12:31 PM | Permalink

Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008

"Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. [...] A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked." - obituary

Posted on May 13, 2008 11:43 AM | Permalink

Sirio Magnabosco

Via Hippolyte Bayard I found Sirio Magnabosco's site, which contains quite a few unexpected gems.

Posted on May 13, 2008 11:07 AM | Permalink

Digital Fortune Cookies or The Poetry of Flickr

I admit I am quite fascinated by the phenomenon that is Flickr - for the most part, I suspect, because of all the things that might just happen there. The other day, I decided to have a look at what people were actually commenting on (using photos that have more than 30 comments), and then I got sucked into reading the comments. I realized that there were plenty of comments that made absolutely no sense to me if I tried too hard to understand what they actually meant, but that acquired a strange kind of beauty if taken by themselves. So I decided to compile some of them (usually picking the full comment, sometimes just picking a piece): Digital Fortune Cookies or The Poetry of Flickr. Enjoy!

Posted on May 12, 2008 3:43 PM | Permalink

Irena Sendler 1910-2008

"Mrs. Sendler [...] smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the last three months before its liquidation. She found a home for each child. [...] Mrs. Sendler listed the name and new identity of every rescued child on thin cigarette papers or tissue paper. She hid the list in glass jars and buried them under an apple tree in her friend's backyard. Her hope was to reunite the children with their families after the war. Indeed, though most of their parents perished in the Warsaw Ghetto or in Treblinka, those children who had surviving relatives were returned to them after the war." (source; also see this site)

Posted on May 12, 2008 12:25 PM | Permalink

Ben Kruisdijk

Via placeboKatz I found Ben Kruisdijk's Röntgen Drawings.

Posted on May 12, 2008 11:49 AM | Permalink

Iosif Kiraly

Taking collections of overlapping images and combining them into a single one is nothing new, and with digital technologies, of course, it's very easy. However, doing these collages in such a way that the results are interesting is an entirely different game - and Iosif Kiraly's "Reconstructions" is probably the best set of such images I've seen so far. His other work I find quite a bit less interesting.

Posted on May 12, 2008 11:28 AM | Permalink

Review: Topologies by Edgar Martins

Edgar Martins' Topologies is a product of Aperture Foundation's "First Book Initiative", which aims at publishing "new work by emerging artists", and it contains what one might call photographs of landscapes. I do not know what it is that often makes artists somewhat reluctant to call such photographs what they are: landscapes. I do suspect that using the word "landscape" might maybe pre-set the viewer's mind to something not desired. But then what effect does "topologies" achieve? After "typologies", we now got "topologies"?

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Posted on May 12, 2008 11:19 AM | Permalink

Conscientious

Conscientious - Jörg Colberg's weblog about fine-art photography (and more)

May 16, 2008

Samantha Contis

May 15, 2008

Elizabeth Fleming

May 14, 2008

Dina Kantor

May 13, 2008

Rechenzentrum - IBM

Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008

Sirio Magnabosco

May 12, 2008

Digital Fortune Cookies or The Poetry of Flickr

Irena Sendler 1910-2008

Ben Kruisdijk

Iosif Kiraly

Review: Topologies by Edgar Martins

Jörg Colberg

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