I posted about Bryan Schutmaat over at my blog a while back, but I’m still a huge fan of his work and want to share it here.
What is it about bed photographs that I love so much? I always return to them – both in others’ work and my own.
Selections from Chan Hyo Bae’s Existing in Costume below! I think this body of work is brilliant.
The artist description on Saatchi Gallery’s website puts it perfectly: “Bae seems to be performing a blatant paradox: that of the outsider gleefully destabilizing the hierarchies of a culture about which he has admittedly fantasized, but which has forbade him full entrance because of an unalterable ethnicity.”
tilt shift!:
From Swiss Miss (the screenshot is hers as well):
Tokyo Camera Style is the Sartorialist for cameras.
Well, the school year’s started up again which means I’m taking photo again, which means this source book needs to be revived:
Some photographs by Erin Hanson. I first heard of her through a favorite curatorial site of mine, Share Some Candy.
This photo is from The Center for Fine Art Photography’s 2008 Environmental Exhibition. It’s by Daniel Williams. Maybe it’s because I just read Jean Baudrillard’s essay Simulacra and Simulation in which he writes about the replacement (read: obsoleteness) of reality with signs & symbols consequential to modernity and technology, but regardless:
1. This circuit board looks a lot like city planning
1a. I am freaking out
Check out the rest of the online exhibition if you can. It’s pretty neat.
Derek Henderson’s series I Go Down to the River and Pray reminds me of two previous photo assignments I’ve had: mapping and a sense of place. His photos in this set are taken around the Waikato River in New Zealand.
I recently realized that I’ve spent all but about 5 weeks of this year in Oberlin, so I’m pretty intrigued by everywhere that isn’t here.
