Die Antwoord + Roger Ballen

We were talking about Roger Ballen in seminar recently...for some reason I was watching Die Antwoord videos (here's a good example, if you haven't heard them) and just found this one, directed by Roger Ballen. It's called I FINK U FREEKY. Definitely worth a watch.

Dale

Tampering with the Sacred

Erasing ‘The Americans’

By STACEY BAKER

Mishka Henner, an artist who lives in Manchester, England, recently self-published “Less Américains.” The book consists of photographs from Robert Frank’s book “The Americans” that Henner has transformed by erasing parts of the original images. We spoke last week about what is likely to be a controversial project.

 See the full text of the article and more images at:

http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/erasing-americans/?scp=2&sq=robert%20frank&st=cse

Justine Kurland

Ahorn Magazine just released their eighth issue, featuring an essay and new work from Justine Kurland. Here are some photos.

Read the essay here.

Issue 8 also features some awesome work from Irina Rozovsky, Gregory Halpern, Pujan Shakupa, and Yaakov Israel. There are also interviews with Brian Ulrich (one of my favorites), Judith Ross, Sheron Rupp, and a few others.

Dale

Christian Patterson

A few photos from Christian Patterson's most recent project, Redheaded Peckerwood.

View the rest over here.

Dale

Updated Lab

In honor of the new semester, I took the liberty of updating the blog! I'll update all of the links and add some new ones too. Stay tuned!

Dale

Kodak Part 2

Yesterday Kodak announced they are going to phase out their digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames. They also mentioned that they would be continuing to invest in film production, which is great news for us! Here's the BJP article.

Dale

Kodak Files for Bankruptcy

Kodak filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy today. While it doesn't mean they will go under, it's certainly a possibility. There's also a good chance that the film division will be passed on to another company who might do a better job...or on the other hand, they might just stop making film. Who knows.

Here's an interesting article about how Fuji prepared for the digital landscape twenty years ago, while Kodak spent its money paying out its shareholders.

http://www.economist.com/node/21542796

Dale

Zen master Pipo

Remake Inspiration

There are a bunch of awesome remakes of art at this link.

http://www.booooooom.com/2011/10/04/remake-submissions/

Cool for anyone checking out the history of photography, painting etc.

Dale

Surfland

Joni Sternbach - Photographer from Johnny Abegg Films on Vimeo.

-alex (who else?)

The Lytro

I forgot to mention this until now but the camera that takes photos first and focuses later is now a real product. For a starting price of $399, you can own one.

http://www.lytro.com/

-Dale

Haunted House "Photo Project"

Hey dudes,

while browsing today, I came across the flickr of a haunted house that at an identical moment in the walkthrough of the house, fires a strobe and takes a picture right as the patrons are most scared. it actually makes for some extremely interesting photographs. the most interesting thing however, is simply how many of these shots there are. they have hundreds from each month of operation. as someone who stages photos, and tries meticulously to get people to look at least kind of scared, im finding this to be some great source material.

-gw


http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightmaresfearfactory/