Picking up the Pieces

So this isn’t really about photography, but it is about pictures. This comes courtesy of our man Shane in NYC. Artist Kent Rogowski did some serious jigsaw puzzling, throwing in a twist: “Flowers and skies were taken out of over 40 store bought puzzles and combined to form a series of spectaular landscapes. Although [...]

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Motor City Memories

Detroit’s been down on its luck for years now, its inner city crumbling in shabby neglect. Back in 2005, the National Trust for Historic Preservation put all of downtown Detroit on its list of the 11 most endangered historic sites in the U.S.
Oakland-based photographer Katherine Westerhout was inspired by the grand structures the late [...]

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Gender Play

Kimberly Austin’s images waver and blur on silk and muslin banners. Her technique involves developing the same image on two different swaths of textile, using two distinct alternative processes. She prints one sheet of fabric using cyanotype and the other using Van Dyke then hangs both layers of material over a metal rod [...]

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Grey Area

Maizie Gilbert compares looking at her photos to “watching a movie in a foreign language without subtitles.” Forget about the words just follow the pictures and try to extract fleeting threads of a storyline. Gilbert shoots color and b&w with a 1970s Polaroid land camera, using the lo-tech device to snap dreamy film [...]

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Images Re-membered

Went to SFMOMA last week to see the Jeff Wall exhibit and fell in love with this piece, “A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)” taken from a woodblock print by the 19th-century Japanese artist called “Ejiri in the Suruga province.”
The woman on the left with a file full of papers spiraling off in an [...]

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