Marco Breuer is best known for the photographs that he makes without using a camera. (He does other sorts of photography, but this body of work is largely what we know about his endeavors). Rather than pointing at a moment that is gone, and wresting fixity from flux, as photographs are said to do, Breuer acknowledges the triumph of instability, with its attendant manifestations of destruction and demise.
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The Accidental Art of eBay Photos
LOS ANGELES — Oh, eBay. The few times I’ve tried to sell something on eBay, I remember the emphasis they placed on selecting a good image (or series of images) to properly show what you’re trying to get rid of. It makes sense and I always noticed that the best eBay sellers tended to have the best photos. Sell it Yourself is a new tumblelog project by New York artist David Brandon Geeting.
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Psychedelic Cherry Blossoms in a New Photo Series
LOS ANGELES — Spring is upon us, and cherry blossoms are blooming around the world. It’s hard to take a bad picture of a cherry blossom, known as sakura in Japan, so how do you take a better one?
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Turning Ruined Polaroids Into Artful Abstractions
LOS ANGELES — William Miller’s new Polaroid project explores the “ruined” photograph.
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A Street Photographer for the 21st Century
The content of Strauss’s individual photographs is not always disturbing, but paging through the entirety of 10 Years means talking a walk through neighborhoods and into situations that you might otherwise avoid.
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Inaugural Photoville Comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park June 22–July 1
This summer United Photo Industries is taking the next step in helping to create an extraordinary global community of artists.
Working in partnership with local galleries, national institutions and an international network of curatorial partners, United Photo industries is building Photoville — a unique, large-scale, photographic village built from more than 40 freight containers in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, at the Pier 3 Uplands. For a taste of what’s to come, join us at photovillenyc.org.
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A Diverse Survey of Gay Men in America
LOS ANGELES — A book by Scott Pasfield explores the diversity of America’s gay male community.
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An Artist Goes Undercover at a JC Penney Portrait Studio
Studio portraits do not document an event; the making of the photograph is the event. In order to create a series titled Free Sitting, artist Nora Herting got a job as a trade photographer at a portrait studio in a JC Penney department store in Ohio.
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Photos from the Margins of Chinese Cities
LOS ANGELES — One thing many Americans notice about first-tier Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai is that there are very few homeless people. Indeed, life on the margins in major Chinese cities often means life literally on the margins, away from the public eye.
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Photos of Couples Switching Outfits
LOS ANGELES — Some couples start to dress and look like each other over time, adopting each other’s personal styles and looks. Vancouver photographer Hana Pesut has set out to explore that visual relationship.
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Photos from the Alien Landscape of Socotra
LOS ANGELES — Socotra. Most of us have never heard of it. Officially part of the Republic of Yemen, the island has long been isolated geologically from the rest of the world.
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Second Sight: The Photographs of George Hendrik Breitner
It’s unlikely, half a century from now, that a shadow oeuvre will appear among the personal effects of many contemporary artists, a secret body of work that parallels or even exceeds their public output. This is what happened with the Dutch painter George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923), whose several thousand photographs emerged from obscurity only in 1961 and might plausibly have been lost forever.
