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Los Angeles

Amazing Photographs by Children Living With Cancer

By Tanja M. Laden on

The third annual Pablove Shutterbugs Gallery Show at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles recently celebrated truly beautiful photography by children living with cancer across the LA area. Numerous supporters contributing to making it happen, including the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But to help raise money for future projects that encourage photography programs for pediatric cancer patients, the Pablove Shutterbugs Gallery Show hosted a special fundraising event May 4 full of work by big-name photographers like Herb Ritts, Piper Ferguson, Jeff Antebi, and many others. … Read More

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Clever Surrealist Photographs That Evoke Man Ray’s Witty Spirit

By Tom Hawking on

Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of surrealism is that it was funny. For all that the eyeball-slicing of Un Chien Andalou and the nightmarish dreamscapes of Salvador Dalí’s paintings are singularly disconcerting, the movement also had an endearingly quirky sense of humor — one that’s echoed in these playfully surrealist black-and-white pictures at Faith is Torment. They evoke the spirit of Man Ray, juxtaposing the mundane and the bizarre in ways that are both striking and amusing: a spoon casts the shadow of a fork, a ladder leads into a mirror, plates sit stacked in the grating that covers a street drain. They’re the work of Spanish photographer Jose Maria Rodriguez Madoz, who goes by the name Chema Madoz. Click through for a selection of his wittiest and most imaginative images.
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Powerfully Evocative Portraits of Four Sisters Photographed Over 30 Years

By Alison Nastasi on

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: there is nothing like it in this world,” Charlotte Brontë once wrote. We’ve examined the special connection between sisters in literature and art before. However, few have illustrated the emotional bond sisters share more poetically than photographer Nicholas Nixon. … Read More

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Haunting Photos of Abandoned Planes in the Middle of Nowhere

By Alison Nastasi on

Wired introduced us to the work of Dietmar Eckell, who photographs abandoned airplanes in remote locations. The haunting images of the metal behemoths sinking into gorgeous, deserted landscapes are dramatic and surreal. The series Happy End started when the artist was researching the “visual disruption of nostalgic technology in endless landscapes,” and continued when he drew a connection between the ghostly planes and the shipwreck/marine paintings of the Romantic period. The aircraft Eckell documented are the relics of forced landings in faraway places (some abandoned now for 10 to 17 years), but thankfully everyone on board survived. The artist wants to share the stories he uncovered in a book he’s currently campaigning to fund. Visit Eckell’s work in our gallery, and head to his Indiegogo page to learn more. … Read More

San Francisco

Breathtaking Photographs of Alonzo King LINES Ballet Dancers

By Bonnie Chan on

As of this year, Alonzo King has spent three decades changing the face of ballet, sculpting a traditional classical dance form into a modern template for fluidity and cross-pollination. In his choreography for San Francisco’s own Alonzo King LINES Ballet, King has collaborated with numerous artists and musicians representing traditions from all over the world, including Baka artists from the Central African Republic (People of the Forest, 2001), Shaolin monks from China (Long River High Sky, 2007), tabla master Zakir Hussain (Scheherazade, 2009), and actor Danny Glover (Before the Blues, 2004). … Read More

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‘Chaos to Couture’: Preview the Met’s Punk Fashion Exhibition

By Emily Temple on

Punk has always been inextricably (sometimes physically) bound up with fashion, art, and the ordered disorder of each. Enter PUNK: Chaos to Couture, a big, gorgeous book published in conjunction with a show of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that’s filled with photographs and essays that consider the punk aesthetic as it was interpreted by high fashion. The exhibit runs from May 9 through August 14 and is sure to be an absolute knockout; preview some of its most striking images below. … Read More

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Beautiful Photos of Contemporary Nudes in Classic Museums

By Alison Nastasi on

We’ve featured the beautiful photography of German-born artist Karen Knorr before, and her Muses and Majas series recently caught our eye on Art Sponge. Knorr was commissioned to photograph two prestigious museums: the Louvre in Paris and Madrid’s Lázaro Galdiano Museum (the original home of the Spanish art collector). She set contemporary nudes amongst the museum galleries, playing off the historical context of surrounding sculptures and paintings representing the Virgin Mary and Aphrodite. Knorr’s subjects become part of the exhibit, captured in repose behind the velvet ropes where visitors are forbidden to venture. See more of Knorr’s beautiful, dreamlike photos in our gallery. … Read More

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Time Traveling Photographer Photoshops Herself — And Her Cell Phone — Into Famous Snapshots

By Judy Berman on

“How would time travel affect life as we know it?” This is the question that guided Budapest-based Flora Borsi‘s Time Travel project (which we spotted at Faith is Torment), a series of photo manipulations in which the photographer and graphic designer inserts herself — and her cell phone — into famous photos of celebrities from bygone eras. Inspired by a Charlie Chaplin movie, she wonders whether we’d use time travel to “[c]apture the most important events in history” and share them via Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. See Borsi thrust her camera phone into the faces of Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, Andy Warhol, and more below. … Read More

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Hilarious Engagement Photos Parody Sexy Couples Photo Shoots

By Julia Pugachevsky on

Engagement photos are notorious for looking pompous and tacky, with the bride-to-be dripping in jewels as she cradles her husband’s head by the fireplace (or something like that). Employing photographic clichés for their friends’ and family’s entertainment, San Francisco couple Casey Grim and Adam McLaughlin parodied those poses in side-by-side shots where each is lying on the bed and staring into the camera or giving a sultry over-the-shoulder look. Shot in black and white, the photos progressively goofier as Adam mimics Casey’s sensual body language, going as far as to don a bra of his own. Flip through the photos, which we discovered via Design Taxi after the couple posted them on Reddit, and celebrate true, unpretentious love between two hilarious geeks. … Read More

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Beautiful Polaroids of Books and Photos in Unusual Settings

By Tom Hawking on

A photograph of a burning forest leaning against a tree; a book opened to an image of marching Kalahari bushmen set in a field of daisies; a listing sailing ship set in the corner of a room. Seattle photographer Serrah Russell’s Geographics series is a collections of photographs of photographs, their meaning changed by their context and backdrop. Russell’s bio explains that her work revolves around the “juxtaposition of seemingly disparate imagery, [which] allows shrouded parallels to emerge within her pairings.” The choice of image and backdrop certainly seem significant, if inscrutable, and they get you thinking hard about what’s being portrayed and why. We spotted her work via Booooooom; you can see more of it at her website. … Read More