Remains of the Day (or Week or Month)

Artkrush decorated their last newsletter with German photographer Vera Lutter’s camera obscura image of San Marco. The picture has all the inverted elegance of a film negative with its shadows that gleam and bright sunlight that turns black. But Lutter’s images are about more than just light and dark. Standard photographs are instantaneous; [...]

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Travels into the Interior

If you’re not familiar with the art magazine Esopus you should definitely take a look. Editor Tod Lippy runs the publication without advertising and still manages to create a beautifully designed object that travels well outside the physical and conceptual idea of a magazine.
Between its glossy covers, lies a 3-dimensional world, as if the pages [...]

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Photo Lust

This morning I spent two hours over at the Alemany Flea Market, sifting through old photos. Having done this for a few years now, I realize there’s an entire ritual and psychology around it.
I move through the stalls quickly, trying not to get distracted, eyes on the prowl for boxes with snapshots, vintage post cards [...]

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Splintered Reality

I discovered Haris Epaminonda at the Venice Biennale earlier this year. Epaminonda is a Cypriot artist who splits her time between London and Nicosia. Her work is all about the appropriation of images—whether they’re plucked off the Internet, ripped out of old French magazines or culled from vintage film footage.
In a small, darkened [...]

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Sexy Boy

Deborah Oropallo is actually a painter, but her recent work draws on photography. Her exhibit now at the De Young Museum meshes digital images of 17th and 18th century portrait painting with pictures of lingerie models downloaded from the Internet. Oropallo creates digital files of both images, then manipulates them in Photoshop, making some [...]

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