Art (Contemporary and Otherwise)

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Harry Callahan, not to be confused with "Dirty Harry"

[Fuuma]

What's the best artbook you'd recommend on Callahan?

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The only Callahan book I have is Eleanor–which is basically a photo catalogue of his wife and child. The printing is tri-tone with a few color plates thrown in, and the paper is ok, but nothing to write home about. I do remember the original prints to be a little more punchier, but the quality is not bad for a $40 book.

Callahan has somewhat of a limited oeuvre (he photographed and printed slowly) so if you look into his other books, you will most likely run into the same images. His most engaging pictures are his wife and child right smack in the middle of the frame. It's like a modernity applied to casual family photos that I've never seen before.

From what I recall, Callahan prints are not that expensive, but still way out of my budget. He was an amazing printer.

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Today in Kristianstad I finally got to see Maria Miesenberger's photo exhibition Sverige/Schweden.

Miesenberger is born and raised in Svalöv, Sweden but her parents regularly took her to their Heimat in Austria. The exhibition pictures a manipulated family photo album, with human bodies blackened, white lights enforced and grey shadows blurred.

It was fantastic, mesmerizing. The in my understanding very intricate photo lab manipulation allowed different impressions from different perspectives, also from varying distances. Viewed upon real close, I felt hallucinatory in the grey haze and swallowed by the bodily black holes – existential rips.

The photos are like a childhood's X-ray pleats. Are there pathologies? Sometimes I got repelled, scared.

Take a look. These digital reproductions by no means give the originals justice, neither do quality book prints I've seen.

Triptyk II/Triptych II
För evigt/Für Ewigkeit
Immigranterna/Die Immigranten
Förväntan/Erwartung
Saga/Geschichte
Framtid/Zukunft
Flickan på trappan/Das Mädchen auf der Treppe

[endersgame]

sorry if it's in the wrong thread. anyone who has done art handling to pay off MFA debts can relate. i find this very funny.


The next events — a speed competition to hang framed works of art (with sadistic measurement requirements like 9 15/16 inches) and a contest called the “static hold,” in which handlers had to keep framed pieces of lead weighing 50 or 60 pounds held against a wall while Mr. Riederer barked orders at them and took a leisurely cellphone call in the midst of their grunting labors (“Ah, yes, hello darling, Basel, yes”) — left only two teams for the final round.

Points were subtracted for inelegant taping, dripping sweat on the art, and, once, for failing to “waste time properly” when a team that finished early didn’t leave to smoke a cigarette or get a beer. Justine Birbil, director of the Michael Werner Gallery and one of the event’s three judges, awarded extra points to the members of one team because she thought they “looked good from behind.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/design/23handlers.html

very funny slideshow.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/22/arts/20100323_HANDLER_SLIDESHOW_index.html

[endersgame]

the met turner show last year is still fresh in my mind..

[Acéphale]

Jindřich Štyrský
(1899 -1942)

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Looks like a Mark Ryden painting.

[diamonds]

shomei tomatsu "boy and the sea"

[MASUGNEN]

Looks like the body wears a LUC knit.

[Acéphale]

Marguerite Burnat-Provins
(1872 - 1952)

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Robert Frank from The Americans. Was able to handle a few of the original prints of the photos in the book and they are nothing short of stunning irl.

[Acéphale]

Max Klinger
(1857 - 1920)



The Dead Mother
(1842)

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saw somewhere pictures of sculptures of men, maybe women as well that are standing on top of buildings in nyc. it is fairly new i think, can't find the article or remember the artist - anyone know who the artist is? it was bad a**

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