Ephemicropolis (fictional world)

This artist Peter Root recently created a city made of staples called Ephemicropolis. Click the name to see more (including a video).

Bruce Dale

Bruce Dale is a famous photographer for National Geographic. His landscape photography really caught my eye. As I looked more into him and his photography I learned he has had over two thousand photographs published by National Geographic, and has won "Magazine Photographer of the Year." Dale has traveled to over 75 countries throughout the world to create his photography. I especially like his road photographs, he makes something so simple and everyday seem like a really good concept for landscape and art.

Urban Landscapes

I have a concept for a landscape project that I'd really like to do but time and money aren't on my side. I'm from Newark (NJ) and I feel like there's a misconception that a lot of people have about the city. It's not perfect but it has been changing a lot and I wanted to show the duality of the downtown area versus inner city Newark. But like I said, that's a project for another time (most likely it'll be digital) and in the mean time here's some work I found by Paul Raphaelson, a Brooklyn based photographer who photographs urban landscapes. These are from his gallery called Lost Spaces, Found Gardens.

Olaf Otto Becker

Becker documents the effects of global warming on the coasts of Greenland. In these pictures, you see the dwindling icebergs.

Judith Quax

Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson and Obama

Obama

Kate Moss 

Leonardo Dicaprio

Amy Winehouse

Linsay Lohan

Jake Gyllenhaal Will Ferrell

Sine we talked a little about Terry Richardson in class today I figured I post some of his photographs. I didn't know about the camera he uses so that was interesting to find out seeing as how these all are executed pretty well in my book. If you click his name there's a link to his official website but here are some fan sites that offer even more of his photography.

This is actually his diary: http://www.terrysdiary.com/
Fan run sites: http://fuckyeahterryrichardson.tumblr.com/
http://terryrichardson.tumblr.com/

Also I mentioned that he's come under fire for some controversial pictures; click at your own risk.
Photo 1, Photo 2

Allie Mount

Allie Mount is a contemporary photographer of the American West whose work I stumbled upon on Heading East sometime maybe last year. I don't really know much about her, but I follow her on flickr and I love her work. She shoots landscapes almost exclusively, so I thought it would be relevant to bring up considering our discussion today. Her work tends toward the pastoral and is, I think, a nice counterpoint to the industrialized landscapes we looked at in class. She shares a minimal and straightforward style and eye for the sublime with some of the photographers of the Dusseldorf school, but depicts natural forms rather than industrial ones.

The following are from Rocks in the Mojave Desert, 2009:









Some others from Flickr; I love the colors in these:







Images:
- http://www.alliemount.com
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/alliemount

Philippe Halsman

Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair was selected for the 2010 Whitney Biennial for her work, "Self-Immolation in Afghanistan: A Cry for Help." <- Click to view all images.
Sinclair got her start in photojournalism while covering Iraq for the Chicago Tribune. She's lived in Iraq and Lebanon, and has documented sensitive gender issues, like the practice of self-immolation in Afghanistan. This form of suicide has a direct link to domestic violence and sexual abuse (one women she photographed claimed that she set herself on fire because she was afraid what her husband would do when he found out that she had broken the TV), and much of her work relates to these issues.
I'm especially interested in photojournalism and I think it's interesting that work like this would be included in a show like the Whitney. I'm looking forward to seeing what other photography is included in the show.

Roger Fenton

Roger Fenton was the first war photographer and his photos really grab my attention. He documented the Crimean War. He led the way for future war photographers such as Alex Gardner and the rest of the Brady team during the Civil War.

Pierre Le Hors - Firework Studies

This looks like an awesome book. I love the repetition of a single subject, and it reminds me of one of my favorite paintings (Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket by James Whistler, shown at the bottom). I'd be proud to have it on my coffee table.











Images:
- http://www.pierrelehors.com
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNeill_Whistler