Friday 29 May 2009

Time was a fool


Robert frank, En route to Del Rio, 1956


...' Time was a fool with a banjo.
I kept running. Her long hair fell accross my face.'

Bukowski, South of No North

Persona


Still from Ingmar Bergman's Persona

La Piscine


By Guy Bourdin

Rebecca



Rebecca by Paul Strand

Saint cloud


Eugene Atget

Claude


Claude Debussy

Renee


Jaques Henri Lartigue
Renee Perle in hat 1930-3

Son prenom c'est Bonnie


Bonnie Parker, 1933

Labour


Walker Evans
From the series Labour Anonymous,
studies of pedestrians in Detroit, Michigan
Fortune magazine 1946

Texans on 5th


Louis Stettner, Texans on Fifth Avenue - 1975

Diane


Diane Arbus, Self Portrait

YVA


Often forgotten, and unknown the fashion photographer of 1920s Berlin, Yva and her singular vision would go on to influence the likes of Guy Bourdin, Ellen Von Unwerth, and of course her apprentice Helmut Newton.

Her real name was Else Neulander, she was of Jewish origin. Born in 1900 and the youngest of nine children, she became fatherless from the age of 12, her mother left to support and fend for the family by becomin a milliner. Most likely this instilled an ambitious nature in the young Yva, and after some photographic training her work was shown in a touring exhibition entitled
'Foto: Modernity in Central Europe 1918-1945'.

In 1925 she bagan to work alongside the artist Heinz Hajek-Halke and would go on to incorporate his paintings in her photographs, as in the double exposure/ self-portrait above.

Yva had a talent for blurring the boundaries of photography. Sadly enough her archives were lost and only single images in public musuems/ collections remain.

Thursday 28 May 2009

LM


Linda McCartney Self Portrait

En route


William Eggleston

Wednesday 27 May 2009

Ave A


James Jowers, Ave. A, 1967

Leave me A lone


Paul Rand cover design 1957

Proile through


Profile through Door, by Ralph Gibson

Captive mind


Cover Design: Paul Rand

Harlow


Robert Altman
Harlow ~ The Cockettes - 1970

Bridge


Blue Bridge- Paris, Ralph Gibson

M Casati


Man Ray, Marquise Casati 1922

VM


Vali Myers (left) Rudi Rappold (right)

Thiele


Thiele's Photo Room
contrtionsit, 1880

Anna


Modigliani sketch
Anna Akhmatova 1884-1920

Tuesday 26 May 2009

Bitter Tears


Still from 'The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant'
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Curiosités


Frederick Ruysch's Anatomical Curiosities

Sous le sable II


Edward Weston, Nude on sand, Oceano 1936

Sous le sable


Edward Weston, Nude on sand, Oceano

Saturday 23 May 2009

Friday 22 May 2009

Crop


By Ralph Gibson

In Memory


Miroslav Tichy has a knack for conjuring images then spell nothing but memory. Finding fame at a later stage of his life, better late than never as they say.
Tichy achieves these results through a rather extraordinary approach, he basically builds the camera himself out of odds and ends. The printed images often dog eared and subject to the elements from teas stains of a mug to other spots of imperfection thanks to their unkempt existence. Effects which cannot help but add to their nostalgic charm.

The subjects women, women, and, more women. Often without their noticing, a rather voyeuristic aim at catching them unawares sunbathing on a lazy summers day in some park. The blur that his DIY cameras usually create again adds such mood and evokes the sun streaked beauty of days gone by.

St Annie


Robert Altman,
St Annie, Lower East Side

Nu


Egon Schiele,
Nu, Assis 1910

LC


By Larry Clark

Regard


Garry Winogrand, Women are beautiful

Closed doors


Joel Brodsky, The Doors, New York City 1967

July 11


André Kertész, "July 11, 1981"

St Marks



James Jowers, St Marks, NY 1967

Holy Mountain


Still from Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain

RH


Rebecca Horn

Destruction of


Kiki Smith, The Fourth Day: Destruction of Birds

Winter of Artifice

'To imagine was far more terrible then reality, because it took place in a void, it was untestable. There were no hands with which to strike or defend oneself in that inner chamber of ghostly tortures. But in living the realisation summoned energies, forces, courage, arms and legs, to fight with so that war almost became joy. To fight a real sorrow, a real loss, a real insult, a real disillusion, a real treachery was infinitely less difficult than to spend a night without sleep struggling with ghosts. The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us, and it knows where to strike us where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, and lovers do not because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.'

Anais Nin

JMC


By Julia Margaret Cameron

Down the


Images by John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

Thursday 21 May 2009

Of Alice


Alice, by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

La Main de Madame Hugo


Auguste Vacquerre, La Main de Madame Hugo, 1853/4

Ring it off the wall


Andy Warhol

Bernadette pour SB


Jean-loup Sieff ,Bernadette laffont 1959