February 2012
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Sister Sinner: The Fashionable Faces of Andrea...
As women, we know what it’s like to perform. A dab of lipstick here, a pair of high-heels there, a lit cigarette and boom! Your story ends and another begins. So goes the transformation for artist Andrea Mary Marshall, whose work explores femininity through an evolving language of archetype and exaggeration. Andrea uses tried and true feminist fodder to her advantage. Blood?...
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Gemma Kahng: Modern Romanticism
The ever-radiant designer, Gemma Kahng celebrated her New York Fashion Week show last night with a champagne-topped party at Double Seven in the meatpacking district. With her long, charcoal hair, and all white ensemble, it was easy to trace her gorgeous designs to her own personal style.
Initially, Kahng first came on to the scene in the 90s. Her romantic, yet edgy designs were...
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Spiritual Presence: The Paintings of Emily Cheng
One of the beautiful things about living in New York is the ever impressive trough of talented people residing in the city. During the Gemma Kahng after-party, Ana Lola Roman and I had the pleasure of meeting Emily Cheng, an accomplished painter.
Looking through her paintings I recalled a passage in psychologist Carl Jung’s autobiography, Dreams, Memories, and...
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Watch FASHION IN SPACE: PHOTOSYNTH PRESENTS “SAMILIGHT”
Emma Lundgren’s fashion film for her newest collection entitled “Samilight” directed by Javier Barcala takes a cheeky approach to the all too often over-wrought fashion film genre. In this gem, the model dances bond-girl style to a cool 60s track, sporting Lundgren’s newest designs in a sparkly space-land....
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WOODKID: “IRON”
Yoann Lemoine has churned out some truly gorgeous videos in the recent past, including Lana del Rey’s newest video for her single “Born to Die.” Not only is Lemoine a talented filmmaker, but he’s also a gifted musician. His music video,”Iron” showcases his musical chops while simultaneously illustrating his particular photographic...
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BEAUTIFUL SACRILEGE: NAMSA LEUBA RE-CONTEXTUALIZES...
It was important for me to this work because it enabled me to be more aware of the intricacy and the existence of a parallel world, that of spirits.
Namsa Leuba is an African-European photographer born in Switzerland. Her work explores the construction and deconstruction of the body, ideas of ceremony and ritual and the relationship between the sacred and the profane. Here she...
January 2012
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DO NOT BUY THIS COLORING BOOK: The 'Police...
The night Ana Roman meets Joe Heaps:
In a December 2011 text message delivered to the writer, Ana Roman, Joe Heaps Nelson mused: “Come Join us. I am with the exotic one.” I was prevented from doing so.
I finally meet Mr. Heaps. A contained, elegant, prostrate on both legs, and perfectly unloaded Heaps appears before me on an anonymous January night. A good friend, we’ll call him Dick Sherbert,...
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Weegee’s ‘Murder is my Business’ Series: Tabloid...
Weegee/International Center of Photography
Weegee/International Center of Photography
Weegee/International Center of Photography
Weegee/International Center of Photography
Weegee/International Center of Photography
In 2012 many freelance photographers earn their ‘stars’ or ‘badges,’ of honor with as little of a click, upload, and compression in Photoshop. And there you...
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Watch21ST CENTURY DANCE FRIDAYS: THE VIDEOS OF DOMINIQUE PALOMBO
There once was a time where philosophers, artists and various wise men championed the idea that all plastic arts must remain separate from each other to retain their own purity. According to these people, there was no greater sin for one particular visual medium, like painting to exhibit the qualities of another medium, like photography,...
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Watch21ST CENTURY DANCE FRIDAYS: CHARLIE LE MINDU FASHION FILM
Yet another example of dance being integrated into mainstream visual culture, Chris Sweeny’s film for Charlie Le Mindu’s fashion demonstrates the powerful impact dance can have on the viewer. The video’s visuals are wonderfully crisp and photographic. Unfortunately, the music, which is meant to be driving, actually ends...
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MODERN GODDESS: FASHION PHOTOS BY PHILIP VOLKERS...
While Philip Volkers’ work ranges from portraits of Karl Lagerfeld to documentations of Burning Man, we were interested in covering his special series with Big Eye Gallery, an online gallery based in New York City that offers a special selection of artworks to savvy collectors.
According to Volkers bio, he is inspired by “nature, the occult, and radical self-expression,” which...
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THE HUSHED GRANDEUR
Quiet beauty is often taken for granted. However, Juriaan Booij’s film, “Waver” for designer Shao Yen, illustrates the value of a simple, well- executed idea. In “Waver,” the models emerge like delicate birds discovering their winter down for the first time. Booij reveals the soft and sensual nature of Yen’s pieces through subtle gestures: A shot of a graceful hand combing...
Bodyworship: Bálint Rádóczy's "Skinscapes" Series...
I have always been moved by how gay people develop a sense of creating an illusory projection onto reality, how desperately they try to create a shield to protect their dreams, and how fragile this state of mind really is. This unbearable discrepancy between one’s idea of life and reality is one of the greatest sources of creativity. Skinscapes is a quite to-the-letter portrayal of...
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WatchPHOTOSYNTH FRIDAYS 21ST CENTURY DANCE: GRUPO CORPO, “PARABELO”
The dancers in Grupo Corpo’s “Parabelo,” move as a singular organism. Their tightly grouped formation becomes a perfect red cell, performing its tasks methodically to the steady rhythm that mirrors the ticking of a clock, or the beating of a heart. And yet within this methodical movement, there...
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WatchPHOTOSYNTH FRIDAYS 21ST CENTURY DANCE CONTINUED: VIDEOS FROM CHIEH-HUA HSIEH’S “SEVENTH SENSE.”
The possibilities are endless: technology, sound, bodies and more all merge into one fascinating experience. If this is the future, I’m in.
Andrea Diaz for PhotoSynth
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Getting to the Guts: Clara Asanza's "Idiopathic...
Clara Asanza’s “Idiopathic Tropic” series builds a calm and absurd vision of urban utopia. In the culled and cultivated urban gardens, Asanza’s subjects stand alone, momentarily suspended and separated from the sources of their illnesses, failings and woes. The only physical reminder of these problems that remains in frame are the red vital organs each person clutches.
The distant...
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PhotoSynth Friday's are Dedicated to 21st Century...
Dance is no longer a separate entity. It merges with digital interactivity, plays with ideas, and pushes itself from within. Upcoming fertile environments give birth to a beautiful and unavoidable connection with the future. Taiwan’s own Chieh-hua Hsieh has managed to blur the lines and push boundaries with his collaboration and projects via the Anarchy Dance Theatre. The pieces are...
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THE GOLDEN TOUCH
Do you ever wish you could wake up to a world just as resplendent as a dutch painting with a touch of fairy tale magic? Luckily for you ( and me ) Justin Anderson’s video for Jayne Pierson, entitled ” Twin Parallel” actually brings this world to life. “Twin Parallels” weaves together carefully composed images into a pseudo folk-tale that shines...
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Learn how to Shadow Cast from the Masters: The...
The underlying principle of our technique is based on a simple observation: the shadow cast by an object depends not only on the object itself, but also on the light; therefore the same object under changing lighting conditions can totally change its appearance. - Drzach/Suchy
THE MARILYN SERIES 1
Marilyn 1 - EVENING LIGHT SOURCE
Marilyn 2-MORNING LIGHT SOURCE
Shadow Casting...
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Unrepentant Triumph: The Ladies' Bar Series by...
There’s no moral to the story that I’m telling with these pictures. My goal as a photographer has always been to get as close as possible to reality and get it down on little pieces of light-sensitive paper in order to share it with other people so that what’s good and bad in the world isn’t forgotten- John Sevigny
Wendy
Santisma Muerte
Make Up
Jazzercise
Girls grow up. The...
November 2011
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Back to the Gypsy: A "House" for the Nomad...
Ernst Hunter is restless. The world renowned art collector finds himself in an array of clutter and for what it’s worth, is breaking away from the rat race….or so it seems. I can imagine him calling on architect/designers Ana Martinez and Martin Lejarraga, ripe with befuddlement in his voice cooing into the phone, “i’ve no time to myself, I need to get back to the...
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Seeing Life through Rose-Tinted Glasses: Lunch...
He was five minutes late and running. There was no dirt on Richard Mosse. We both ate a sandwich facing each other. I was ravenous. It hadn’t entered my mind that this could be one of the most impactful, early 21st Century photographer’s living today.
He has caused a stir and a revolution. He has offended, he has offered absolutely no agenda, and he has managed to skip and smile his way out of...
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R.I.P. Loulou de la Falaise:Yves St. Laurent's...
Photo by Helmet Newton
Over the weekend the fashion world lost an immense renaissance woman who represented timeless style, innovation, and experimentation to her very last breath.
If you don’t know or have never heard of Loulou De la Falaise, then I suggest you at least thank her for inspiring the iconic women’s tuxedo designed by Yves St. Laurent. In her lifetime, de la Falaise managed...
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Deathly Designs: The Legendary Cities of Viennese...
Atlantis
ALTELIER OLSCHINSKY, a small hive of a creative studio founded in 2002 calls Vienna, Austria it’s home base. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are the masterminds of what pumps out of this design factory. They operate in various fields of photography, art direction, graphic design, and illustration.
Babylon
Gotham
Metropolis
El Dorado
Troy
Atelier has...
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The PhotoSynth Project's CEDRIC ARNOLD featured in...
Cedric Arnold is the first Photographer to be represented by The PhotoSynth Project. Here is one of many posts from around the world about his work in DIE NACHT Magazine. Stay tuned for more…
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Muralismo Morte: The Future of Muralism and it's...
The new book Muralismo Morte - The Rebirth of Muralism in Contemporary Urban Art by Jens Besser reveals a visual language as old as time itself. The urgency of now has catapulted many new muralists into translating a new type of language. This new vibrancy of communication comes as an after-effect caused by current economic strains under the changing political shadows of numerous...
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WatchThree days. Four Russian Muralists. An atmosphere of meditative work. Day. Night. All in the town of Nizhny Novgorod.
Posted by Ana Lola Roman for The PhotoSynth Project
Special thanks to Muralismo Morte
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RADAR: Nan Goldin's Rapture of Looking Preview
Breakfast in bed, Torre di Bellosguardo, Florence 1996, Nan Goldin
Simon and Jessica in the shower, Paris 2001, Nan Goldin
If you can’t find it, it’s always in front of you. Henri Cartier Bresson duly noted this at every turn, with every decisive moment. You mustn’t lie in your photographs. You mustn’t lie to your subject. Because whether or not they do not know the minute you capture...
October 2011
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Dressed to Thrill: The Grotesque, The Ancient, and...
Phyllis Galembo Ngar Ball Traditional Masquerade Dance, Cross River, Nigeria, 2004
Phyllis Galembo, Baby Dance of Etikpe, Cross River, Nigeria, 2004
Phyllis Galembo, Agot Dance Group, Etikpe Village, Cross River, Nigeria, 2004
Phyllis Galembo, Akata Dance Masquerade, Cross River, Nigeria, 2004
Phyllis Galembo, Ekpokang Masquerade, Calabar South, Nigeria, 2005
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This October the Metropolitan Museum Exhibits The...
Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
There is much life in me — when it was always checked in moving toward you — I realized it would die if it could not move toward something … I chose coming away because here at least I feel good — and it makes me feel I am growing very tall and straight inside — and very still — ...
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FAKE. OLD. MASTERS. The Tragicomedy of George...
“All Over the Place” by George Condo
“The Stockbroker” by George Condo
“The Priest” by George Condo
“Father and Son” by George Condo
“Mary Magdalene” by George Condo
“Head with Sword” by George Condo
For three decades, New Hampshire born Condo has really been at it. Provoking. Looking. Poking. And making...
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Capturing the Future of Corrida and Remembering...
Memories of summers spent in Seville, Jerez, and Cadiz with my family as a young child remain to this day. The complex fragrances, of Jasmine, Sherry, and tobacco curl up into my nostrils. No matter how soft the scents, the scene of my sense memories is equally harsh and bloodcurdling, when I recall La Corrida—The bullfight.
No one ever made apologies for the ancient tradition, or attempted...
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Before Motion: The Still Life of Stanley Kubrick's...
Stanley Kubrick, Self-Portrait
This confession is painful: I don’t watch a lot of Stanley Kubrick films. I have not seen “Lolita”. I have not been shocked by “A Clockwork Orange”. I have not been floored by “Full Metal Jacket”. I could not make it all the way through “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
But I have seen “The Shining”. Only once. And I...
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September 2011
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WatchPHOTOSYNTH FASHION FILM: QUENTIN JONES FOR ANOTHER MAGAZINE S/S 2011
Coined a “Young Meteor” by British Vogue, QUENTIN JONES is an illustrator, model, philosopher, and filmmaker. Meteoric, yes, and with talents to prove it, Jones has produced a body of work that is beyond 2011.
Fashion is dimming with an overload of nostalgia, albeit it always has, but now with various Arab Springs,...