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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.

http://www.jacksmithandthedestructionofatlantis.com/

Stephen Dupont was born in 1967 in Sydney, Australia and began his photographic career working for Reuters in Africa. He has since covered conflicts throughout the world, including Kashmir, Indonesia, East Timor, Rwanda, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and is the recipient of several World Press Photo Foundation awards. He is also the author of Steam: India’s Last Steam Trains (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999) and Lutte, a four-continent project on wrestlers around the world (Marval 2003). He joined Contact Press Images in 1997 and is based in Sydney.

Showing from 25.05.2007-14.06.2007
http://www.sandrabyrongallery.com.au
http://www.stephendupont.com/

Check out this absolutely brilliant work by Chris Jordan.
(Thanks to zeke for the headsup)

Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is a work in progress, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.

~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

99 Cent, the photograph with a market value of $2.7 million, at the Art Gallery of NSW. Photo: Peter Morris (courtesy SMH)

An incomplete world features paintings and photographs by leading international artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Sarah Morris, Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman.

Selected from The UBS Art Collection, one of the finest international corporate art collections, An incomplete world will open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales before travelling to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Exhibitions curated from The UBS Art Collection have previously been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London.

An incomplete world will highlight artworks that consider how we have shaped the world and our vision of it, and how the world we have created shapes us. The exhibition has three linked thematic groups: natural and built environments; portraits and people; transforming places. Over 50 works have been selected by 31 artists to represent these themes.

ART GALLERY NSW

On view: 19 May to 29 July 2007
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road
The Domain, Sydney

Telephone: (02) 9225 1744 or recorded information (02) 9225 1790

Hours: 10am to 5pm, 7 days a week
Art After Hours every Wednesday until 9pm

Admission: Free

Media Information and Interviews: Claire Martin, Press Office
Telephone (02) 9225 1734 or 0414 437 588
clairem@ag.nsw.gov.au

Everyone loves a good snapshot, just some of us arent the best in taking a nice picture, thats not the case with the two people below, Diego DeNicola and Tim Rudder, so click the links to check out the rest of the fantastic shots!

Diego DeNicola http://www.flickr.com/photos/demsone/

Tim Rudder  http://www.timrudder.com/photography/

Luvgals is a graphic design and illustration site dedicated to femininity. Artists from all over the world are encouraged to submit their own work to be featured on the site.

There are sections dedicated to graphic design, illustration, sketches, photography & motion with the only theme being the feminine character. So go check out their galleries and submit some of your own work here and help ad to the galleries.

The Youth Accommodation Association presents the ‘Where did you sleep last night’ photography exhibition.

The exhibition contains photos taken by young people across the state in both metropolitan and city areas who are experiencing homelessness. Young people were sent disposable cameras and were asked to take photographs that represented their experience of homelessness. This is the first time a project like this has been done in NSW and it is a real chance for them to tell their story through photography. This is a powerful exhibition and one not to be missed.

When: The exhibition is open from the 30/4/07 until the 10/5/07.

Where: Pine Street Gallery; 64 Pine Street, Chippendale.

Opening Hours: Monday –Friday 9:30am-5:30pm. Saturday 11am-4:00pm. To confirm opening hours please phone Pine Street on 9245 1503.

Contact: For further details on the exhibition phone Sarah Gadd on 9698 5833 (ext 8).

From the owner of the photographs.

These came from a collection of over 400 Polaroid photos of strippers trying out for dancing jobs at a So. Cal club. They were taken from the late 1960’s thru the early 1970’s.

I decided to create a new Flickr account to share this collection with other photographers. They document fashion, interior decor, and a time when bodies were for the most part, natural. The Polaroid film makes for an even more nostalgic feel.

The main interest I have with these photos is the esthetics(sic) of an era, not just as titillation. As an artist and photographer I find these women beautiful, daring and sometimes desperate. Each woman here has a story, and each one deserves our respect.

More here

An excellent photo essay from Time magazine on the enigma that is the Iraq War.

War of Shadows

“Color Shift” is an urban-scaled art project made by inputting a continuous stream of alternating colors into the FreshDirect video billboard, the largest in the country. These illuminations are recorded from different points simultaneously and presented in the gallery through a 3-channel, high-definition video as well as large format photographs.

Color Shift Project Site