Annette Kelm

here

Mishka Henner

When Google introduced its free satellite imagery service to the world in 2005, views of our planet only previously accessible to astronauts and surveyors were suddenly available to anyone with an Internet connection. Yet the vistas revealed by this technology were not universally embraced.

Surprisingly, one of the most vociferous of governments to censor political, economic, and military locations was the Dutch, hiding hundreds of significant sites, including royal palaces, fuel depots, and army barracks throughout their relatively small country. The Dutch method of censorship is notable for its stylistic intervention compared to other countries: imposing bold, multicolored polygons over sites rather than the subtler and more standard techniques employed in other countries. The result is a landscape occasionally punctuated by sharp aesthetic contrasts between secret sites and the rural and urban environments surrounding them. 

-- Mishka Henner, from this wonderful online exhibition, DB12    

Wolfagang Ganter

He does better with a series of photographs derived from found, degraded slides—images that he has further distressed, bringing them to a point of acid-trip chemical beauty. They have the look of film burning in a projector, or pictures oxidized into vibrantly unnatural hues. One, titled Stars, 2008, is a fairly intact beach-scape accented with snowflake like bursts of pale blue and purple. Such photographs have graphic appeal, but the closer you look, the more organically beautiful they seem. (here and here)

"boxing is the love of my life"

Clara Bow, via Up Like Toast

I heard this excellent, wonderfully produced piece on NPR yesterday about Tyrieshia Douglas
who will compete this summer in the Olympics.

Also, on girls boxing, artist Margaret Meehan.

the folks

Regular people snapshots, from the collection of Jason Brinkerhoff.

here

erasure.

here, via white hotel

Winslow Homer
American, 1836-1910
River Scene, Florida
c. 1904


Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820-1882
Standing Female Nude
c. 1855


John Beasley Greene
American (French School), 1832-1856
The Nile
1853-4

photographs from the Clark

Alana Celii

Indoor fecundity.

here

empty (places)

Louise Lawler, Salon Hodler, 1992–93. Silver dye bleach print (Ilfochrome) mounted on paperboard,
48 × 57 7/16 in. (121.9 × 145.9 cm). Edition no. 2/5. Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York; purchase with funds from the Photography Committee 94.23

Robert Motherwell, Afternoon in Barcelona, 1958.
Synthetic polymer and oil on canvas, 54 × 72 in. (137.2 × 182.9 cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff 79.35
Art © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Richard Mosse

"For centuries, the Congo has compelled and defied the Western imagination. Richard Mosse brings to this subject the use of a discontinued military surveillance technology, a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Originally developed for camouflage detection, this aerial reconnaissance film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. "

from here

Max Kozloff

windows

here

interior worlds

here

Andrey Chezhin

Homage to Salvador Dali

Homage to Matisse

Homage to Moholy-Nagy

Homage to Meret Oppenheim

here

Guy Mendes

here, and here through October 8

also, on another note, this

Jason Eskenazi
Religious procession, Azarmas, Russia, 1991

via

summer games

Klaus Goehling

Bubbleplast Games,1970s

(via Betonbabe)

Arthur Leipzig

King of the Hill, 1943

August Sander

Secretary at a radio station, 1931/Printed 1997


The Wife of Architect Hanz Heinz Luttgen,
ca. 1930/Printed 1997

Circus artist, 1926/Printed 1997

here