cover of How to Read Music in One Evening, A Clatworthy Catalog, 1974 © Mike Mandel Very few people are aware of How to Read Music in One Evening, A Clatworthy Catalog (1974), a self-published book by photographers Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. Yet, in many ways, the book can be seen as a precursor [...]
I have to thank Ofer for passing on the news that Sigur Rós – a long time favorite band of mine – has just released a track titled “Gobbledigook” off of their forthcoming album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (English: With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly). Along with the release [...]
Installation view of “Tree Zone” from Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2008 © Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard I’ve featured some of Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard‘s collaborative work previously on the blog. Pretty recently, though, their websites were updated to include a new project entitled Tree Zone. In a series of images the artists have captured the [...]
L: Boy and Stockings, 2008 R: Whiskey and Cigarettes, 2008 (from “Tiger Afternoon”) © New Catalogue / Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler New Catalogue is a collaboration between Chicago-based artists Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler. As their bio describes them, New Catalogue is a visual research project that mirrors a stock image bank. Working through [...]
Untitled, 2001-2007 (from “Man Woman Unfinished”) © Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt I recently came across this web-based photo project by Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt called Man Woman Unfinished. It loads random pairs of photographs, creating a “theoretically unrepeatable row of encounters between the man and the woman.” The project was selected as a [...]
The other day I made a purchase from Dashwood (oh, how I love thee) – a book which has a curious description: A road trip shot anonymously by two noted contemporary photographers on their way to see William Eggleston in Memphis. The guessing game is who? – one is color the other b&w; one British [...]
Descent, 2003 © Carlos and Jason Sanchez Let’s see… Jeff Wall meets Gregory Crewdson meets Anthony Goicolea meets Angela Strassheim meets some other tableau-ographers? For me that’s the gist of work of the Sanchez brothers – Carlos and Jason Sanchez. But take a look at what they are doing that differs from the aforementioned names. [...]
Danish photographers Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard have so many interesting and beautiful images that I couldn’t decide which to share here. Howalt’s projects 3×1 (2001) and Boxer (2003) are both worth seeing – as are Søndergaard’s Now That You Are Mine (1997-2000) and Versus (2003). Untitled, 2001 (from “3×1″) © Nicolai Howalt Boxer #13, [...]
exactitudes.org (detail) © Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek / Exactitudes While I’m at it… I give you Exactitudes. As described on SHIFT, Exactitudes started back in 1994 when photographer, Ari Versluis and stylist, Ellie Uyttenbroek came up with a campaign for KPN (Dutch Telecom) which was based around telephone cards with images of youth culture. [...]
