Very keen on these Sigmar Polke inspired treated black and white prints by Tom in Year 12.
I really like the atmosphere generated by these double exposed prints by Gabriel in Year 12.
She’ll probably kill me for posting these but I really enjoyed working with Lucy today on creating projections of her fantastic surrealist inspired dream images.
Treated myself to this lovely book this afternoon at Tate Modern. I was delighted with my 10% members discount until I got home and realised I could have bought it for £20 less on Amazon!
Frivolous but fun!
“Sandwich Artist” by Brittany Powell is a series of photographs of, as the title suggests, sandwiches that pay homage to renowned artists including Damien Hirst and Jeanne-Claude & Christo. Simplicity at its best, as some say: Less is more.
View more works at http://lowcommitmentprojects.com/!
São Paulo No Logo, a set by Tony de Marco on Flickr.
The city of Sao Paolo in Brazil is removing adverts from its streets. Photographer and typographer Tony de Marco has been documenting the process.You can read more about it here:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070618_505580.htm
In case you didn’t catch this one, you can now upload 1MB GIFs to Tumblr!
Photo posts now support Animated GIFs up to
1MB. Woo!GIF by iwdrm featuring Blow-Up (1966)
Interesting pinhole images by Year 10 students.
Tennessee’s brick pinhole images (made with a brick) displayed on the new brick walls of the school. I can see a theme developing…
Another recent book purchase which I hope will support Year 13 research about Surrealism. Never have so many photographs in which the sitters’ eyes are obscured been gathered in the same place. It’s a remarkable and compelling collection.
Very excited by the beautiful colour photographs of John Batho, especially when I also discovered these great plastic bag pictures!
Romare Bearden, The Street, 1964
From the Milwaukee Art Museum:
Because Romare Bearden intentionally set out to portray the daily life of black Americans, his own African-American heritage must be taken into account in order to fully appreciate his work. Following Martin Luther King Jr.’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, Bearden and 13 other African-American artists met to discuss “the Negro image” in art. Failing to persuade the group to produce a collaborative work, Bearden struck out on his own, creating a series of 21 collages that were exhibited together in 1964. This Harlem street scene captures Bearden’s own neighborhood in a rhythmic composition that demonstrates the loose, improvisational structure that marked the jazz and blues permeating the New York that he knew. Here life is happening on the front stoops and sidewalks as people sit and watch or hustle on their way.
Not strictly a photography project but still a powerful manifesto for the positive impact of community art projects and therefore worth celebrating!
Trailer for Here Comes The Neighborhood, a microdocumentary series exploring the power of public art and innovation in revitalizing local communities.
- We have abstract ideas: ‘whiteness’ etc. Where from? Sensation!
- The mind is white paper when you’re born: ‘Tabula Rasa’. Where are ideas from, then? ‘To this I answer…EXPERIENCE’. Knowledge’s two ‘fountains’ ‘sensation’ (Hume: ‘impressions’), ‘reflection’ (Hume: ‘ideas’). Another image:…
Spotted this today on the Philosophy Department blog and thought it might make the basis of an interesting photography assignment…
