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A photographic portrait project
Stone Gallery on Oxford
395 Oxford Street, Paddington
25th October – 4th November 2007
An exhibition and documentary that explore the relationship between the photographer and the camera.
Opening night and documentary screening
7.30 – 9.30pm
Thursday 25th October 2007
Opening hours
Friday 26th Oct till Sunday 4th Nov
Contact wing@wingdingo.com 0412 023 742 for the showing times.
Passionate in more ways than one, Designer and photographer Diego DeNicola is going oldskool with his new toy a Mamiya C220(all shot with expired 120 film). Below are a few photos from his latest collection for and for all the rest go here
Because we are promoting CONTROL, the debut film from Anton Corbijn about the life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis (win tickets to the advance screenings weekend), we figured we should take a look at his photography. Corbijn is something of a photographic legend, having photographed a “who’s who” of the entertainment world, as well as designing countless album covers (including U2’s Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby) and directing over 80 music videos for, among other, Nirvana, U2, Johnny Cash, Mercury Rev, Depeche Mode, Metallica, Nick Cave, and The Killers.
Corbijn tends to eschew traditional glamour photography, instead favoring a rawer look, often in black-and-white. His subjects appear to be calm and far removed from everyday life. His photographs show raw emotion. His influential style of black and white imagery with stark contrasts on grainy film (sometimes referred to as “overcooked”) has been imitated and copied in such extent that it has become a rock cliché and a vital part of the visual language in the 1990s.
Check out some of Anton Corbijn’s work on his website.
While this may be old news, it is nonetheless interesting to those involved in street photography. Do photographers infringe upon the rights of their subjects when photographing them without consent? According to the court case which ensued after Philip-Lorca diCorcia snapped an unsuspecting and unwilling retired diamond merchant (pictured below), the answer is no.
As this photo demonstrates, often the best results are born of serendipity; chance and unstaged. Read more about the lawsuit here.
You can view more of diCorcia’s photography here.
Some people are scared of the dark, and everything that requires artificial lighting, but for Katerina Roth, The darkness is not only for vampires, but a place where magic can happen. Continue Reading ►
Awwww… What a cute photograph by photographer ‘Huojb‘.
ZHUHAI, CHINA: A little macaque nestles its head on a pigeon on Neilingding Island, located among Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hongkong and Macao, south China’s Guangdong Province, Sep.7, 2007. Three months ago, the macaque was born on the island but had strayed from its mother. Luckily, it was taken in by work staff in the protection center and became friends with the pigeon there.
The fascinating photography of Pieter Hugo pops up from time to time on the internet - pictures of rough looking African men with chained, muzzled hyenas. Often the captions declare the men as bank robbers, bodyguards, drug dealers or debt collectors. These people are actually entertainers who make a living performing a circus act of sorts, captured beautifully by Pieter Hugo.
What interests Hugo is the hybridisation of the urban and the wild, and the paradoxical relationship that the handlers have with their animals - sometimes doting and affectionate, sometimes brutal and cruel.
View the photography at the Michael Stevenson Gallery.
Two Flat Whites recently had the pleasure in catching up with commercial photographer Jennifer Ferguson LBIPP. Jen has been passionately shooting people, things and places professionally for eleven years. Her attention to detail and design, coupled with the energetic spice which resonates her contemporary images continues to lead her internationally.
read it here http://www.twoflatwhites.com/?p=155
One of Spain’s most prominent and innovative artists, Joan Fontcuberta is best known for exploring the interstices between art, science and illusion. In this series, Fontcuberta has used the popular internet search engine Google to create large, colourful photo-mosaics that construct an elegant metaphor for the internet-era’s liaisons between mass media and ideas of collective consciousness
Friday 13 July to Saturday 18 August 2007
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Galleries 1 & Foyer
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more exhibitions here
Check out this awesome website for: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Vanguard Filmmaker, radical photographer, seminal performance artist, Queer saint: the late Jack Smith maintained an intense, lifelong rapture conjured out of the frayed magic and glamour of a Hollywood that had come to camp out on the movie set of his own mind. The externalization of that tarnished magic and glamour, which obsessed him, enabled him to both exoticize and humanize a conservative American culture enamored with progress and bruised in its formation by economic speculation and cold war.
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