14 posts tagged with photography by cortex.
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a hand sitting still on a handrail and the bodies blurring past together

Alexey Titarenko is a Russian photographer with a particular focus on long exposure and city photography, a combination that leads to stunning civic ghostliness as in, among other collections, City of Shadows (1991-1994), or the somewhat more restrained New York (2004-present). See also his photocollage of perestroika-era signs and symbols, Nomenclature of Signs. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Mar 23, 2023 - 7 comments

does what it says on the curb

Written In Stone: a collection of photographs of maker's marks in sidewalks.
posted by cortex on Jan 13, 2023 - 14 comments

These boots were made for narrative photographic essaying

100 Boots is a narrative work of photographic art by Eleanor Antin, made of 51 postcards over the course of 1971-1973, telling a visual story of a collection of rubber boots making a pilgrimage from San Diego to New York. Additional bits at MoMa; kadist.org; getty.edu.
posted by cortex on Mar 30, 2022 - 5 comments

smeared trees, red rivers, weird dreams

From photographer Julieanne Kost, three different excellent collections of work:
- streaked, blurred handheld pictures from a vehicle in Passenger Seat I and Passenger Seat II
- implausibly colored landscape abstracts in recent aerial photographs
- eerie photo manipulation collages in What I Dream
posted by cortex on Jun 14, 2017 - 13 comments

The gorgeous line art abstractions of Andrew G. Fisher

Forgotten Corners is a gorgeous series of pairs of black and white line abstractions and reference photos of architecture and city environments, by artist Andrew G. Fisher. See also the more recent series, incorporating color elements, A Stolen Day on a Stolen Trip. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 10, 2017 - 4 comments

Oliver, 4; Beth, 36

FamilyTree is a photo collage project by artist Bobby Neel Adams, joining portraits of intergenerational family members together along a ragged border. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 2, 2017 - 4 comments

Ne Plus Ultraviolet

Spanish photographer Javier Torres writes about how to take fluorescent pictures. Also a lot of other nice stuff on photography basics and principles.
posted by cortex on May 26, 2017 - 8 comments

Syrian refugee photography by Sumaya Agha

Sumaya Agha is an American photographer of Syrian descent, who has among other things spent several years documenting the lives of Syrian refugees in camps and in transit. There's a continuity in her work with families across multiple years, as with young brothers Amir and Ibrahim in 2013 and in 2015.
posted by cortex on May 6, 2017 - 2 comments

Not pictured: pointless shaking of developing photo

Nine Polaroid Photographs of a Mirror, by William Anastasi.
posted by cortex on Apr 16, 2017 - 39 comments

The photography of Maria Svarbova

Maria Svarbova is a Slovakian photographer who specializes in white and pastel compositions with bright accents, featuring people in carefully static and sometimes eerily affectless poses. The Dining Room. Pool Without Water. Healthy Teeth, Good Mood.

Standing apart somewhat from the rest and visually remarkable in its own right is (n.b. nudity) God's Mirror.
posted by cortex on Feb 24, 2017 - 6 comments

An unsettling reindexing of depth and dimension

Weronika Gęsicka is a Polish photographer and artist who creates surreal, fractured variations on mid-century Americana imagery.
posted by cortex on Jan 26, 2017 - 8 comments

Faking fake

Still File, by Skrekkøgle, is a series of photographs staged to resemble e.g. unconvincingly photorealistic raytraced 3D graphics. Making-of photos included. Skrekkøgle hijinks previously.
posted by cortex on Jan 2, 2017 - 20 comments

All Summer in a Frame

Jason Shulman takes single long-exposure photographs of entire films.
posted by cortex on May 11, 2016 - 38 comments

Andrew B. Myers' Missives from the Wallpaper Dimension

Photographer Andrew B. Myers makes photographs that don't look like photographs so much as like clean-edged graphic design illustrations. Much of his work combines vibrant colors, flat, non-gradated lighting with crisp shadows, and a long-lens isometric composition to create tableaux that resemble old-school screensavers or wallpaper prints.
posted by cortex on Feb 23, 2015 - 7 comments

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