tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111088852012-01-28T04:12:30.476-05:00A blog of random musings and visual stimuli by Amy Stein, a fine art photographer and teacher based in New York City.Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-27035206662882760162011-07-31T19:48:00.002-04:002011-07-31T19:49:54.597-04:00

Raw footage from the original music video shoot of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark." Somethings are better left unknown and unseen. Watch at your own risk. Via Gothamist.

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© Anneke Joris Blake Andrew's post about the unauthorized proliferation of Melanie Einzig's photograph of a man knitting on the subway highlights an all too familiar tension between content producers and content sharers in the age of social networks. The reality is that if you live and work as an artist on the web you are choosing to both exist in a constant grey area between copyright law and

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Google Street Views © Jon Rafman Future of photography exhibitions always intrigue me. I find them interesting not because they give me wormhole access to content that lives just beyond art’s event horizon, but because the exercise of curators lusting for predictive immortality while displaying a passive hostility towards the status quo they've created makes for curious sport. Most of the future

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Yuen-Fu Monastery, Formosa, 1870, John Thomson One of the great joys of the past few years has been the movement by museums, libraries and archives to digitize and make accessible hundreds of thousands of photographs in their collections. It amazes me how little The Commons is discussed in the endless debates about the pros and cons of digitization. Never before have so many images by masters and

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Kylie, Stockton, California © Alec Soth I'm happy to have a few of my Stranded images among such good company in No Direction Home, an exhibition for the curated by good friend Stacy Mehrfar for the Head On Photo Festival. The show focuses on contemporary interpretations of the tradition of American road photography. The details: No Direction Home Curated by Stacy Arezou Mehrfar Featuring

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The great American director, Sidney Lumet, has passed. A master of social realism, Mr. Lumet's filmography includes some of the great titles in the history of cinema.

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The new video from Fader favorite Spoek Mathambo is a cover of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control." If the video feels hauntingly familiar perhaps it's because Spoek collaborated with South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, to pull it off. (Hat tip to Michael Itkoff.)

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UPDATE: And still yet another 'match'. Commenter, BabyCakes, points me to the image below made by Melvin Sokolsky in 1960. A portrait of Salma Hayek by Cass Bird appears on the cover of the 2011 Women's Spring Issue of the New York Times T Magazine. When I saw the image, I immediately thought of Josephine Meckseper's photograph Pyromaniac 2 and I tweeted that the T Magazine cover was clearly a "

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I first wrote about Vivian Maier in 2009 and since that time she has been discovered and canonized by street photographers around the globe. With a new book of her work slated for release this fall, a documentary about her discovery and retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Center it looks like she is finally getting the mainstream attention she deserves. CBS video via Art Most Fierce.

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Great interview with Doug Dubois by Sunday & Wednesday. Doug is a national treasure and a great friend. Via Liz Kuball.

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© Jo Ann Walters I met Jo Ann Walters in the summer of 2002 at the Maine Photography Workshops. I was working as a teaching assistant, helping a different photographer each week in the classroom. That summer would end up being an important one for me personally and professionally. I was new to photography and hungry to absorb as much as I could from the teachers and students who were passing

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Cheerleaders, New Orleans, Louisiana © Amy Stein I am equally mesmerized and repulsed by art fairs in general and the annual Miami art fair fete in particular. I love the opportunity to see so much work in one place, but often it is presented without context and the whole air of commerce can be overwhelming. It's a love, love, hate, love kind of thing for me. Sadly, this year I will not be

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This Friday Things Fall Apart opens at Pool Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition is my first curatorial foray at Pool and features a stellar lineup of artists. When Pool approached me about curating a show of work that was in dialog with my Stranded series I immediately started to make a shortlist of artists in my head. It was important to me that the show feature all women artists because we are

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Untitled (Hulk) and Untitled (Powerpuff Girls) from my Halloween in Harlem series are now available from 20x200. I am a big believer in the 20x200 mission of (limited editions × low prices) + the internet = art for everyone and was flattered when they asked me to participate. For my 20x200 edition I made the decision to offer C-prints which meant hand printing every last photo. It almost killed

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Two photos from my Halloween in Harlem series will be available this Wednesday on 20x200. I can't divulge which images until Wednesday, but the prints look great and you will definitely be pleased. For my edition I decided to hand make C-prints. Individually printing over a thousand photographs in four days almost ruined me, but I'm very pleased with the final product and happy to be working

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© Tommaso Bonaventura Tommaso Bonaventura's portraits of Mao Zedong impersonators. (Via Raw File)

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Untitled (19), 1996 © Gregory Crewdson First it was bees and now fireflies? There has been much anecdotal evidence that fireflies populations are in decline. The Museum of Science wants to know for sure and has started Firefly Watch, a ten year citizen scientist driven mission, to find out. (Via Treehugger)

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© Chris Verene, 2007 I’ve been familiar with Chris Verene’s photographs since I started graduate school at the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Chris was a critique teacher there, and although I never had the chance to study with him I was always curious about his highly saturated, unsettling and poignant images of his extended family. Chris has been photographing his relatives in Galesburg,

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William Lamson is a fellow POCer and one of the most original, witty and creative artists working today. For his latest project, A Line Describing The Sun, William has finally scaled his genius to its appropriate size. A Line Describing the Sun involved a day long performance in which I followed the path of the sun with a large Fresnel lens mounted on a rolling apparatus. The lens focuses the

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From Little Brown Miscellanea.

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See full size.

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When Herzog Rescued Phoenix from Sascha Ciezata on Vimeo.

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© Mona Lisa Productions I'm a bit of an evolution junkie. I'm particularly fascinated by the idea of evolution in real time. We tend to think of evolution as something that happens over millions of years, but there is evolutionary change happening right under our noses. See this story on Live Science about fish in southern Mexico who are adapting to a centuries old, yearly religious ceremony

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Dopamine crystals viewed with polarized light © Spike Walker From "How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb" Behavior of waves © Berenice Abbott

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Photography is Not a Crime shows us a new poster by the Transportation Security Administration that makes a pretty clear assertion: if you are a photographer near an airport you are potential terrorists and must be reported. Next thing you know some church in Florida will start burning copies of The Americans.UPDATE: The TSA responds. Thinking about it more, I don't know if the greater insult is

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I'm loving this photo of Jason Polan, me and Melanie Flood by Bert Teunissen.

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© Dreamboats Collective Recently, there has been a lot of renewed interest in joint endeavors within photography world. Collectives like Piece of Cake and the Dreamboat Collective have been formed to deepen community and support for their members. Lots of people are discussing their work together and it's helping to rewrite the rules of the art world. The collective spirit is not limited to

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Double Standards, 1961 © Dennis HopperDennis Hopper's contribution to acting and cinema was singular. He was also a very talented photographer whose body work stands head and shoulders above most celebrity-come-photographers.

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© Marc GarangerMay in New York means the New York Photo Festival, which opens this Thursday. Last year I missed the festival because I was traveling, but this time around I plan to get myself to many of the events. There are some great artists talks scheduled including: Deborah Willis and Jessica Ingram, Zed Nelson, Eirik Johnson and Jason Houston, and Marc Garanger. As an army photographer in

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Fortune Magazine commissioned Chris Ware to do the cover for their annual Fortune 500 issue. He responded with the brilliant critique of capitalism you see above. Fortune promptly rejected it. (Via Kottke.)

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The stage is set for portfolio speed-datingI've always wanted to go to Houston for FotoFest. The shows, the people, the line dancing. One year I'll get down there. In the meantime I asked a two friends, Phil Toledano and Justine Reyes, who attended the portfolio reviews this year to report back from the trenches. It's been a few days since they returned home, but you get the idea.Phil ToledanoNow

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With much (too much) discussion of late about plagiarism in the photography world, it's important to have some historical context. To wit, You Thought We Wouldn't Notice points to the interesting similarities between the lions in Peter Paul Rubens's “The Meeting of Marie de Médicis and Henri IV at Lyon” and Paul de Vos's “The Ark of Noah.” Theft seems to be the one true constant in the long human

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Untitled (Yellow Dress) © Amy SteinA new image from my Halloween in Harlem series is included in the 6th Annual BAMart Silent Auction. The bidding is open now and runs through this Sunday. If you are in New York you understand how important the Brooklyn Academy of Music is to the cultural landscape of the city. If you don't live in New York, just know it's a great cause and there is some top

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Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy

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Cheerleaders, New Orleans, Louisiana © Amy SteinA few years ago Mark McPherson contacted me out of the blue asking if I was interested in taking part in a book project that focused on Australian and American photographers. I thought, hmm... that's random, but potentially interesting. I knew very little about Australia beyond the cliches of surfing, kangaroos and walkabouts. Since Hijacked was

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© Ryan Berkley IllustrationThere is an interesting article in Seed Magazine that sums up recent research around the growing debate of whether animals are people. It would appear that many of the traits we have long considered uniquely human are not so unique after all. The debate feels less like a struggle for scientific clarity and more like a brainy ape's desperate attempt to hold on to his

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Through the loupeA year ago I met Stacy Mehrfar for a drink at the Half King in Chelsea. We'd known each other since our early days printing in the color darkroom at the ICP, but on that day Stacy was in town from Sydney, where she lives with her husband Gavin. As we were catching up over a drink and talking about her new adopted country, she mentioned a strange phrase, Tall Poppy Syndrome.

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Outback © Amy Stein or Stacy Mehrfar. Who cares?This blog has been quiet lately because I've been focusing on making images rather than writing about them.Right now, I'm in Australia to participate in Foto Freo. The festival--which will feature the first solo show of Stranded and a panel discussion where I'll be speaking about online photo communities and blogging with the illustrious Andy Adams

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When I heard about the recent Sea World incident, I immediately thought of the song "People Got A Lotta Nerve" from Neko Case's brilliant album, Middle Cyclone. Here is the video by Julie and Paul Morstad. You know they call them killer whalesBut you seem surprisedWhen it pinned you down to the bottom of the tankWhere you can't turn aroundIt took half your leg and both your lungsAnd I craved I

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Amazing animated piece from French design studio, H5. Via Next Nature.

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Production still from Wendy and LucyPlease join me next Friday for a special event. I will be talking with renowned art critic Lyle Rexer about my series Stranded and the themes that connect it with Kelly Reichardt’s award winning film Wendy and Lucy.When I saw Wendy and Lucy in 2008 at the Film Forum I was struck by the similarities between Stranded and this beautifully simple film about a

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JC Penney © Brian Ulrich"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments."– Napoleon BonaparteThursday night is the opening of my two-person show with Brian Ulrich, Instruments of Empire, at Caption Gallery in Brooklyn. The exhibition will feature new work from my Stranded series and Brian’s Dark Stores series, plus work we created specifically for the show where we reference each

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I started this blog four years ago this June. In that time I've chronicled my life fresh from grad school to something close to an "emerged" artist. Lately, I have been contemplating whether or not to continue publishing as my day is pretty much filled with my job as a full time artist and teacher. I've decided to keep it going, but I've been looking for ways to trim blog time and make my life a

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Today is Martin Luther King Day. Few have contributed more to the American experience than MLK and while his legacy is often defined by his tireless fight for civil rights, it should not be forgotten that he was a pacifist to the core and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.Listen to his Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence speech delivered on April 4, 1967 at the Riverside Church in

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Bingo Board, Luling La 1990 print up for auctionThe Reposed up for auctionThe super talented William Greiner is auctioning a $500 print & $40 book on eBay with all proceeds going to American Red Cross Haitian Relief.

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The earthquake in Haiti is being called the disaster of the century and many on the ground believe the death toll could be in the tens of thousands. What is needed most is money. And you have it. Please GIVE NOW to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. 100% of funds raised goes to the relief operation.

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This short film by Alex Roman is done entirely with CGI animation. From Alex:A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.Watch it at full screen for best effect.

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Still Life with Banana, Purse and Change © Justine ReyesThe holiday season is behind us and I'm very much looking forward to the first openings of the new year. Good friends Tim Briner, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, and Justine Reyes all have what promise to be stellar shows opening this week. I met Tim Briner in 2007 days before he was about to set off on his year long trip exploring small town

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Nikola Tesla's 'thought projector'Mind Hacks points to an article in Fortean Times that details efforts in the early history of photography to capture the "psychic project­ion of images directly onto film." Before you laugh and think thoughtography in the same quackish vein as spirit photography do note that one of humanity's greatest minds, Nikola Tesla, was convinced he could devise a means to

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Agnes Mary Hutchins, born in Zanzibar, 16 May/09Northwestern University Library has made available The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960, an online database of over 7,000 photographs documenting the European colonization of East Africa. Be warned, the collection is rife with uncomfortable photos in the tradition of The People of India and the library spends a

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2009 was an ass-kicker of the highest order. The year found me traveling, exhibiting, and teaching all over the world, which was great, but it left me precious little time to spend with my husband, few opportunities to focus on my 2009 goals, and almost no extra space to expand my mind with the cultural happenings that have made up my past "Big List of Lists." So, this year I'm presenting a

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© Charlie LordAll Things Considered had a fascinating story today about a group of WWII conscientious objectors who were assigned to work at state hospital Philadelphia in lieu of military service. While working in the hospitals they witnessed disturbing excesses of abuse against the patients. When the war was coming to an end they decided they would expose the violent neglect. Charlie Lord snuck

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Ronald Reagan on TV © Bill Owens

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A tragic end for a truly brilliant singer and songwriter

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Fascinating story from Smithsonian.com about the discovery of the first known photograph of Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patientIn 1848, Gage, 25, was the foreman of a crew cutting a railroad bed in Cavendish, Vermont. On September 13, as he was using a tamping iron to pack explosive powder into a hole, the powder detonated. The tamping iron—43 inches long, 1.25 inches in diameter and

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Alec Soth is spreading his narrative wings with video. More please.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-39576718653795120942009-12-20T12:37:00.005-05:002009-12-20T14:29:38.884-05:00

Domesticated was born largely from my interest in evolution after reading The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. I became fascinated with the concept of evolution in real-time and wanted to explore the grander implications of subtle and gradual human interventions within ecosystems.We tend to think to think of evolution as something that has happened in the past. We see the

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-11035577087632027672009-12-18T11:11:00.003-05:002009-12-18T11:18:20.133-05:00

360 Cities has put together what they believe is the largest panorama photo in the world. Check it out, but be prepared to spend the next 5 hours getting lost in this amazing photo of Prague.This image was shot on October 3, 2009. It is made from hundreds of individual photographs and stitched together into a single seamless panoramic image.We have put the entire image, in full resolution, online

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-31652284662552622132009-12-16T23:31:00.004-05:002009-12-16T23:39:04.757-05:00

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-78069299860984470422009-12-14T22:56:00.000-05:002009-12-14T23:16:20.581-05:00

Dishdrainer 2006© Geoff SmithA little over a year ago I was in need of a digital assistant to help me improve my technical skills and prints. Joshua Lutz suggested I contact his friend Geoff Smith. And I'm really glad I did. Geoff whipped my work into shape, showing me how to improve my scanning and print quality in my preparation for my show at ClampArt this past fall.Not only is Geoff a

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-28332961643628929862009-12-14T10:14:00.003-05:002009-12-14T10:21:39.467-05:00

Mom and Dad in Bed, Reading © Larry SultanLarry Sultan's influence can not be understated. Truly a giant of contemporary photography.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-38737627751703251442009-12-12T20:33:00.001-05:002009-12-13T12:03:50.003-05:00

Andy Adams of Flak Photo asked me to weigh in on the 'Future of Photobooks' conversation initiated by Livebooks. Most of what I've read on this topic has centered on technology and it's impact on the process and distribution of photography books. Technology has lowered the barrier to entry and the Internet has changed the distribution model, but does this represent a significant advancement of

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-44447707109705678802009-12-10T12:10:00.004-05:002009-12-10T12:23:25.910-05:00

So wrong in so many ways...

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-55911325875501008202009-12-08T21:59:00.003-05:002009-12-08T22:20:40.541-05:00

Two of my favorite NY gallerists, Sasha Wolf and Michael Foley, have banded together on a smart new initiative, The Exhibition Lab. From their site:The Exhibition Lab offers the unique opportunity for photographers to work directly with two New York City gallery owners, creating new work to be curated in two concurrent group exhibitions.This new initiative will provide an opportunity for emerging

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-82933407443053522112009-12-01T22:21:00.003-05:002009-12-01T22:29:55.631-05:00

I want to make this image:A wayward deer is on its way back to the wild after an urban adventure that saw it roam through downtown Jersey City, leap into the Hudson and swim to Governor's Island. New York television station WABC-7 reported the deer made its way on to the rocks at Governor's Island before police caught up to it and tranquilized it.A Jersey City police spokesman said the department

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-7497825133498628992009-11-30T13:28:00.006-05:002009-11-30T13:49:36.276-05:00

Cover of Transference featuring Eggleston's Sumner, Mississippi, c. 1970If you want to create an iconic album cover, just use an Eggleston image. One of my favorite bands, Spoon, will be testing this theory for the cover of their new album, Transference. Via Stereogum.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-52258456623565090572009-11-22T20:26:00.003-05:002009-11-22T21:14:32.050-05:00

Shopping is pretty much the last thing I want to be doing at dawn, but every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving millions gather in the early morning to save precious pennies on stuff they probably don't need. Shoppers are fevered with anticipation and crazed with deal-lust. Retail stores push this frenzy by making the door opening an event--a doorbuster!--and in the current economic climate

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-60920623131421494172009-11-14T14:19:00.005-05:002009-11-15T14:37:15.520-05:00

Meshes of the Afternoon is groundbreaking avant-garde film from 1943. It was directed by the great Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. If it feels vaguely familiar to you it may because it was a major influence on David Lynch and his films Lost Highway and Inland Empire.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-31503939098883601662009-11-14T13:57:00.002-05:002009-11-14T14:19:16.071-05:00

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-7349952957676634982009-11-09T11:43:00.005-05:002009-11-09T13:04:55.469-05:00

© Nan GoldinUNIFEM, the United Nations development fund for women, just launched a global call for action to end violence against women and girls. The facts are staggering: up to 70 per cent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime. The UNIFEM campaign, Say NO - UNITE to End Violence Against Women, allows you to take immediate action or create and organize your

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-59965941508068793762009-10-31T22:05:00.005-04:002009-10-31T23:50:28.456-04:00

Via stevechasmarI was so busy shooting today I almost forgot to wish everyone a Happy Halloween.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-54797443569649262732009-10-30T22:55:00.005-04:002009-10-31T10:26:53.555-04:00

Sunburned GSP #144 © Chris McCaw Just a few more days to bid on the impressive photographs in the Aperture Foundation auction.The live auction includes works by Matthew Pillsbury, Diane, Arbus, Joel Meyerowitz and Abelardo Morell.The silent auction promises even more great work by Chris McCaw, Jane Hammond, Trevor Paglen, Phillip Toledano and yours truly.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-39744931160192437222009-10-28T21:43:00.011-04:002009-10-29T08:34:34.798-04:00

My Mother's Scar © Doug DuboisI'm really looking forward to two openings Thursday night. Doug Dubois' ...all the days and nights at Higher Pictures and Phil Toledano's America: The Gift Shop at Hous Projects.In advance of his show, I spoke with Phil about the project and one of my favorite pieces in the show, the Abu Ghraib bobblehead. It's based on the all too familiar image of a man being mock

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-24441259861099745522009-10-21T21:36:00.001-04:002009-10-25T14:49:27.464-04:00

Dina © Phillip ToldedanoThere's a lot of good energy in Dumbo this season. And much of it is centered around 111 Front Street. New galleries have opened and existing galleries are deepening their programs. There's a lot of interesting and diverse photography on view. Here are some highlights from the next few weeks:October 16Winter, Alton, Illinois © Jo Ann WaltersOf LandFeaturing the work of

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-29860615035615207852009-10-19T23:25:00.005-04:002009-10-19T23:39:44.541-04:00

© Jaime PermuthThis Wednesday will see me at the opening of my SVA student's thesis show. The students have worked long and hard over the past year and now they get to strut their stuff. Old friend and all around sweetheart Dan Halm has curated a thought provoking show.Here are the details:Surface TensionAn exhibition of thesis work from the 2009 graduating class of theMPS Digital Photography

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-6252268656341381532009-10-19T10:19:00.003-04:002009-10-19T10:28:58.340-04:00

Lauren Greenfield continues to push further into the new media realm mixing still photography and video for this piece on the foreclosure crisis. From Frank Evers.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-40453787092437225922009-10-18T15:44:00.004-04:002009-10-18T15:54:37.434-04:00

Accident photos from the Nationaal Archief's photostream on Flickr.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-48046568964690893522009-10-17T21:59:00.002-04:002009-10-17T22:03:45.104-04:00

Promotional film for the Polaroid SX-70 made by Charles and Ray Eames.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-14025450237407725432009-10-15T08:43:00.007-04:002011-01-31T14:32:14.458-05:00

© Vivian Maier John Maloof recently purchased more than 40,000 mostly medium format negatives at an auction for items from an unpaid storage locker. He soon discovered he had found the life's work of a hereto unknown Chicago street photographer name Vivian Maier. The work spans most of the 1950s to the 1970s. Vivian passed away on April 22, 2009. Her photographs are some of the more accomplished

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-18208457992261340952009-10-13T12:40:00.001-04:002009-10-13T12:52:06.819-04:00

A little over a week ago I posted images from Pieter Hugo's newest series Nollywood. Almost immediately I received a very considered email from Sebastien Boncy who took issue with the work. I've always thought Pieter was an amazing portraitist (I own one of his prints), but his work suggests a dialogue with the countries and peoples he captures that, as an American, I am not privy to. In the

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-89817719303700056012009-10-12T11:13:00.007-04:002009-10-12T14:58:29.203-04:00

A classic example of a pimue decayI have been very fascinated with bubble chamber photography lately. These photographic images capture short-lived reactions of electrically-charged particles moving through a chamber of superheated liquid. The resulting images offer a variety of straight lines, spirals, and curves that share a similarity to shapes humans seem predisposed to draw and enjoy. These

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-903423013211353372009-10-04T21:59:00.004-04:002009-10-04T22:34:55.389-04:00

There were so many wonderful things at this year's NY Art Book Fair that I'm kind of glad they didn't take credit cards. My favorite purchase was an envelope of Michael Schmelling prints he mailed to J & L Books just for the event. I finally opened the envelope today and found these little gems inside.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-24985413476639373672009-10-03T21:26:00.008-04:002009-10-04T09:56:38.230-04:00

Vintage ad from Espacios publicitariosHeadache; infections; muscle pain; diarrhea; joint pain; inflammation of the sinuses; accidental injury; unexplained rash; abdominal pain (stomach pain); general feeling of weakness (asthenia); the flu; back pain; allergic reaction; constipation; sore throat (pharyngitis); ash, hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-56055877226235004322009-10-03T17:42:00.005-04:002009-10-03T19:26:48.196-04:00

Obechukwu Nwoye. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008 © Pieter HugoThe prolific and talented Pieter Hugo has a new body of work called Nollywood. Nollywood is the colloquial name given to the Nigerian film industry and all of the images appear to be portraits of actors in b-movies. The new photos share similarities to his previous work--desaturated tones and subjects looking at you with a bayonet gaze--but this

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-11550580726459905982009-10-03T00:12:00.003-04:002009-10-03T00:27:18.611-04:00

Simply one of the most beautiful pieces of poetry ever put to film. Enjoy this classic film by Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee shot in the late 1940s on the streets of East Harlem.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-76089649738679115302009-10-02T22:22:00.005-04:002009-10-03T11:04:48.998-04:00

© Robert FrankTomorrow I'm going to see the "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans" exhibit at the Met. For me this feels like my own personal hajj. It is impossible to understate Robert Frank's contribution to photography and the American identity. I have seen many of Frank's photographs individually, but this is the first time I will be able to experience the full sweep of his expression. I

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-20350971340618912522009-10-01T13:11:00.003-04:002009-10-01T13:19:45.051-04:00

National Geographic announces discovery of oldest human skeleton.

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-10294094244878107872009-09-30T22:11:00.007-04:002009-09-30T22:51:49.198-04:00

© Charles Fréger and Bill SullivanOn Thursday after teaching I'm heading across the river to DUMBO for first Thursday and one show in particular. Good friend Bill Sullivan will be showing work alongside Charles Fréger at the Caption Gallery. This will be the first of a series of shows featuring work by photographers in the POC America collective, of which I'm very pleased to be a member.Here

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-30158652422084835472009-09-28T22:24:00.004-04:002009-09-28T22:43:13.751-04:00

W. Eugene Smith, 1957I recently came across a slide show of Kodachrome images on the Fortune magazine Web site. Included in the mix were a number of rare images by black and white masters Ansel Adams and Walker Evans. However, the real stunner of the group is the image above from W. Eugene Smith. In this glorious photo he manages to evoke both menace and mundanity and leaves me hoping the Fortune

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-53024795294439499342009-09-27T12:22:00.005-04:002009-09-27T17:49:13.174-04:00

Algiers, Louisiana, 2001 © Peter KayafasThis afternoon I'm traveling to Cambridge, MA for a meeting to plan my upcoming show at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. I'm looking forward to hitting the road. I hope to find a few stranded motorists along the way.I've had photography about the American road and cars on my mind lately with Robert Frank's The Americans opening this week at the Met

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-43941712330439627232009-09-20T12:06:00.005-04:002009-09-20T22:29:50.409-04:00

Wood shop at Anderson RanchIn late July I taught a workshop called Seeing in Color at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. Apart from being felled by a killer flu and a crippling touch of altitude sickness, my experience was overwhelmingly positive. It was my first time in Colorado and only my second time teaching such an intensive workshop.Snowmass and the surrounding area

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-37562836386642219202009-09-20T09:08:00.005-04:002009-09-20T13:37:47.981-04:00

Recent mug shots from St. Petersburg TimesThe Smithsonian photography blog, The Bigger Picture, points to a recent article in Time Magazine about the rise of mugshot features in online newspapers. As newspapers struggle to survive some are finding our insatiable thirst for voyeuristic content to be advertising revenue gold. Mug shot from Least Wanted: A Century of American MugshotsYesterday I

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-55691228874828099952009-09-09T23:12:00.006-04:002009-09-10T00:31:14.854-04:00

Glamorous Hair © Tim DavisBoy there are a lot of great shows opening in the next few weeks. Of course, I will be preoccupied with my own opening at ClampArt on Thursday night so I wont be able to see these other great exhibitions for a few days:Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Nottinghamshire © Simon RobertsSimon Roberts' We English at Klompching Gallery If you can’t make it out to Brooklyn on

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-91990440167897869962009-09-06T09:45:00.005-04:002009-09-06T10:23:05.893-04:00

Is about this:John VachonNot this:

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-67762342476863447302009-08-27T22:23:00.017-04:002009-08-28T08:27:54.436-04:00

A high school graduate and friend in Baku, Azerbaijan © James PomerantzPhotojournalist and newly minted graduate student James Pomerantz has launched a blog, A Photo Student, where he promises to detail all of his ups and downs during his first year in the MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media department at the School of Visual Arts.As many of you may know I love to gush about the SVA. I

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-22047627325159427592009-08-05T20:43:00.004-04:002009-08-06T09:47:03.328-04:00

Oh, what an ignoble fate. Crappy Taxidermy via Alanna Risse (aka Angry Pirate).

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-41812121402392630712009-08-01T09:07:00.002-04:002009-08-01T09:20:09.144-04:00

© Javier CuervoPhotographer: Javier Cuervo© Vanessa FentonPhotographer: Vanessa FentonFrom: Fourteen ClosetsWeb site: thisishumanmade.blogspot.com© Oliver SantanaPhotographer: Oliver SantanaFrom: Carnival© Adriana BravoPhotographer: Adriana BravoFrom: Fotos Perros

Amy Steinnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11108885.post-30440434847609166122009-07-24T23:11:00.004-04:002009-07-24T23:22:34.979-04:00

© Carlos RodriguezPhotographer: Carlos RodriguezFrom: Hide-and-SeekWeb site: flickr.com/photos/elcharlys© Lluvia Pamela RamirezPhotographer: Lluvia Pamela RamirezFrom: Poker© Onnis LuquePhotographer: Onnis LuqueFrom: Project Mexico City© Abraham Castillo FloresPhotographer: Abraham Castillo FloresFrom: Dispatches

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