Joan Fontcurberta creates creatures and places them into real world surroundings and photographs them. Fontcurberta placed these photographs into a science museum, complete with scientific names and everything.
Fontcurberta's work crosses that line of what is real and what isn't real in photography. Photographs historically were known to present reality, and truth. With the used of digital imagery these days anything can be altered to appear real, but what is real? Can you believe everything you see?
Morrell does some wonderful work using light as the subject. He is also kind of a normal, humble, family guy, who feels most comfortable working at his own home. Watch the trailer for Shadow of the House, a documentary about Morrell, and you'll fall in love with him even more
Camera Obscura Image of the Empire State Building in Bedroom, 1994 This series is really neat, basically he sealed off all light from entering these rooms and made a tiny pinhole for light to come thru... thus creating a life-sized pinhole camera/camera obscura in the room.
Camera Obscura Image of Santa Maria della Salute in Palazzo Bedroom. Venice, Italy,2006
Light Entering Our House, 2004
$5, 2002 from a series of photographs of money
Folded $20 Bill Resembling the World Trade Center, 2002
Portrait of Inghirami by Raphael, 1993 another neat series, using books as subjects
Self Portrait in Book, 1995
We cannot see life without any means, without any media. Life is too big, too radiant, too chaotic... we all need some way to observe life.
This guy is my f a v o r i t e contemporary, living, breathing, working artist. I just love his spunk, and his talent is absolutely amazing. Phil used to have a segment on his website and more recently on his youtube channel every week entitled "Goodbye Art" where each month he'd pick a subject, and make one piece of artwork every week related to it. He'd document it's creation (and usually it's destruction, because the point of "goodbye" art is that it only lasts temporarily). Phil is creative and fun, and you've got to admit he's quite talented as well. I love when he does large scale works and just dives right in without even so much as sketching.
Phil's methods are completely new and unconventional, and i have no idea where he gets his patience from. It is refreshing to see an artist who makes art because they want to, and just doesn't take it too seriously.
Anyway, I can't do him justice on this blog so just go to his site or youtube channel, you won't be sorry.
and of course I couldn't resist posting this vid... yea... that's me at the end :)
there was a contest for everyone who sent in a picture of themselves with the completed maze, and a winner was picked at random to get his old video camera :) if only i could get it to work with my mac...
Art is my life. I keep working on new projects and am trying to figure out how to make a living at this.
Lorri Honeycutt creates a charming world where little figures thrive, questioning our perceptions of the world, but more importantly making us smile.
Living a full life requires that we keep our eyes open to new ideas and with an appreciation of the world around us. There are small treasures of happiness everywhere. Sometimes we have to look closely to see them.
long exposure shots of movie theatres. sugimoto left the shutter open during the entire length of a movie. the result? beautiful ambient light from the overlapping of all the frames. talk about pirating movies.
That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes.
Jeffrey Wolin is a contemporary photographer, whose most recognizable works combine text along with the images. At times there are only a few simple words, at other times the text speaks volumes.
Little Stevie and the Water Balloon
Santa Claws
Miso Vogel
I am fascinated by the way that the drawn images interact and sometimes collide with the photographs.
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