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Phil Sharp - photographs of New York

I find photographer Phil Sharp’s flickr set of New York photographs utterly refreshing. The details, the angles, the lighting, oh all of it.

Adrian Bach, untitled photograph

Adrian Bach, untitled
isn’t this beautiful? transforms a playground into an island, a place of refuge from the flood.  can’t seem to find any more on this artist but an intriguing image.

Marilyn Minter’s painting and photography

Marilyn Minter’s photography (and painting) is up close, in-your-face, visceral, dripping with tangible texture, abject, corporeal, sexual, and stunning.  She also made a video called Green Pink Caviar in the same evocative style. (via)

Chewing Pink
2008

Bazooka
2009

Crystal Swallow
2006
painting, enamel on metal
Joshua Shirky in SFMOMA’s brochure of her work, writes:
In place of these idealized objects, Minter [...]

Philippe Ramette, Balcon II

Enjoying this interesting photograph on a grey Tuesday.  Philippe Ramette: “Balcon II,” 2001. (Found here, where you can see it in a larger size)

Photography of built space by Christoph Morlinghaus

Christoph Morlinghaus takes amazing architectural photographs, including startlingly modern and innovative churches. I stared in amazement and had a few double takes before I realized that these churches ACTUALLY EXIST.
I agree with Gary of Junk for Code, who observes:
It’s odd–this work explores the use of space as constructed locations, as means of spiritual experience. [...]

Car Crash Studies by Nicolai Howalt

Car Crash Studies is “a thought provoking photographic study of life’s fragility” by Nicolai Howalt playing with that interesting intersection between the horrible and the beautiful, the abstract and the real.  Love it.

(via today and tomorrow)

Ryan McKinley photographs (NSFW)

Ryan McKinley’s photographs are beautiful vignettes, moments of fragmentary human experience.  The nudity is fascinating since it signifies not necessarily sexuality but rather vulnerability, movement, visibility, fragility, freedom. See his site for more of his photographs, they are striking in a larger series.

Richard Renaldi - “Touching Strangers”

I absolutely love this project - photography is fast becoming a favourite medium of mine. In this series, Richard Renaldi asks strangers to pose with each other, touching, in a photograph.  It reminds me of a discussion I had in a class last term about the Free Hugs public performance work.  While talking about its [...]

Maleonn, photographer from Shanghai

Absolutely in love with the photographs of Maleonn, especially his Postman series.

Jon Huck, Breakfast series

Portraits of people by Jon Huck featuring their chosen breakfasts (I highly recommend checking out the entire series).  The other project on his site, Couples looks great too.  I am so curious about how this shoot was done.  Did he ask them to pick a breakfast in advance?  Did they choose the framing?  Or did [...]