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A Geometrical Pleasure in Black and White.
Artworks of Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891 – 1956) on MutualArt.com. Aleksandr Rodchenko was a multi-talented creator and one of theĀ Russian Constructivists – these artists were enthusiastic about the revolution and believed thatĀ art … Continue reading
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Tagged art, black-and-white, geometry, photography, Rodchenko, russian constructivism, stairs, USSR
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Happy Christmas and New Year to All !
2008-technograph-xmas.gif (Image GIF, 1280×800 pixels). Via WP technogra.ph, 2008. Thank you!
Street photography from an angle.
Artist’s site : http://www.pierretoussaint.be/ Pierre Toussaint is a Belgian photographer born in 1982. He lives and works in Brussels. Pieces of streets and fragments of people in black and white are both objects here, carefully put – I … Continue reading
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Tagged argentique, art, black-and-white, figurative, flowers, photography, street, street photography, Toussaint
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When the sea unfolds in a soft drapery…
:: I R E N E K U N G ::. Born in Bern (Switzerland, 1958), Irene Kung studied graphic design in Rome (1978-80). She is a painter and photographer who enjoys black and white in both media. “I love … Continue reading
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http://www.zdom.com/art/kaloustguedel/newworks-frame.htm Kaloust Guedel, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1956, lives in the USA. I found this striking work on the ever striking pages of twixel, thank you! ‘All Men are Created Alike’ mixed media on canvas over board.
Chris Beetles, photography.
Edward Weston, USA 1886-1958, ‘Pepper’, 1930. See the estate site here. A natural oddity, a creative use of light and voila! a voluptuous image. … Continue reading
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Tagged art, black-and-white, peppers, photography, still-life
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Selena Kimball, collages.
Selena Kimball, born in Maine, lives in New York. I like the collage very much; I’m a bit sorry for the old Dore’s book though; his illustrations are wonderful. Series … Continue reading
perses deviantART gallery
http://perse.deviantart.com/gallery?offset=48 A fading image of a lost dream. Elegant. Found via Frannyy; thank you. PerSe, rivers-arms, 2008-2011 on DeviantART
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Tagged art, black-and-white, computer-art, photography, portrait
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Agence VU – Bernard Descamps
http://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=27 Bernard Descamp is a former French biologist turned photographer in the seventies. I love the delicate, symmetrical graphism of this landscape; the thin vertical lines seem to float in the air; the soft grey of tranquil waters are one … Continue reading
Olivier van Rossum
http://www.oliviervanrossum.be/ You are entering a world of shadows and sudden lights, of moving time, of moments already passed; you will try to grasp a flitting vision in a fugitive instant.
Marianne Boesky Gallery – HANS OP DE BEECK
http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/2010-05-08_hans-op-de-beeck/ Almost each evening in Funchal (Madeira’s capital), some cruise liner hoots twice and very slowly leaves the pier. For a minute, time is suspended. You dream about old ships sailing to unknown places. Then you hear Madonna singing at … Continue reading
Segmentation and Symptom – Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators
http://www.flong.com/projects/zoo/ Golan Levin, ‘Segmentation and Symptom’, 2000. It is the portrait of refugees, and the author used ” the delicate filigree of the Voronoi diagram” to express the “fragile condition (of the subject)”. It is a very symbolic expression, but … Continue reading
Tom Vani | photography
http://www.tomvani.com/ Tom Vani, from the well-named serie ‘Ocean Galaxies’. A fantastic Milky Way where the white foamy rivulets seem to have a life of their own , surging from a deep, black infinity. .
http://www.waynelevinimages.com/images/index.php?album=FISH%20SCHOOLS&image=Column%20of%20Akule%20%28SC-215%29.jpg Wayne Levin (Los Angeles 1945-), ‘Column of Akule’, ‘Fish School’ serie . (Hawai’ian fish, also known as “big-eyed scad”. ) Between order and chaos … animal order and human chaos. ‘Approaching Swimmers’,’New Images’ serie.
ĶĄ ĒÅĢĖÅ
http://www.photographer.ru/gallery/47.htm?pic=7 The loneliness of things once loved. Galina Loukyianova, serie ‘Dom-2′(house),1981-1987, picture 7/27. Link found through Snezanabr (see post below), thank you so much!
ĶĄ ĒÅĢĖÅ
http://www.photographer.ru/gallery/47.htm?pic=24 If you don’t know Snezanabr yet (and even if you do!), go and have a look at her pages. You will find beauty, poetry and deep feelings. This photograph by Galina Loukyianova is a good example. I coudn’t resist … Continue reading
The Hereford Photography Festival – introduction
http://www.photofest.org/2008/exhibits2008.htm A very symbolic ‘Twirling Wires’ from the serie ‘Shadow Chamber’ by Roger Ballen, a South-African geologist turned photogapher. He was born in New York ,1950. More images here ( and in-depth analysis in both english and french).
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Tagged black-and-white, narrative, people, photography, sociology
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Roads and rain: photographs by Abbas Kiarostami | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/may/19/abbas-kiarostami-photography-exhibition?picture=347597600 The Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami ( Tehran, Iran 1940) is also a remarquable photographer. I like this black and white composition, its minimalism and its strict geometry. There is rythm in that vast landscape, black-white, black-white…up into the … Continue reading
Keith Carter Photographs
http://www.keithcarterphotographs.com/nocturnes-12.html I chose this picture of Keith Carter to show how an artist’s vision and the mastering of blurring techniques can transfigure the trite reality (i.e.some gas tank in this case, I think). It is called ‘Two Moons’, from ‘The … Continue reading
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