The Ruins of Detroit by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

"Detroit, industrial capital of the XXth Century, played a fundamental role shaping the modern world. The logic that created the city also destroyed it. Nowadays, unlike anywhere else, the city’s ruins are not isolated details in the urban environment. They have become a natural component of the landscape. Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification. Its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire."

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre official website.

Homage to Ralph Gibson

Photography by Luis Furtado. Sírio-Libanês Hospital construction site.
See: Ralph Gibson and Larry Clark in São Paulo at MIS.

Storms imagined by Sophia Szilagyi

“Sophia Szilagyi is a printmaker who uses digital printmaking to create scenes of re-interpreted memory and experience. In her multi-layered compositions, Sophia explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction, challenging our perceptions of reality and the effects of physical sensation and emotional response on memory. Sophia’s artistic process begins with an impression of a certain painting, personal photograph or experience. Images from a variety of sources are combined and overlapped so that the general interpretation of her work is a patchwork of real and imagined experiences. Sophia achieves this seamless layering by using digital technology, giving her the freedom to manipulate the imagery to create the desired mood and expression. The completed works are printed on archival rag paper as this highly absorbent surface enhances the softness and dreamlike quality of her imagery. In this current exhibition, Sophia draws her inspiration from the sea and coast, exploring the dualities of intersections between light and dark, earth and ocean. Through her prints, Sophia seeks to capture a sense of wonder, fear, beauty and, sometimes, danger that exists in both nature and the imagination.

Sophia Szilagyi graduated with First Class Honours from the School of Art and Culture at RMIT in 2000. Since graduating, Sophia has held a number of solo shows as well as participating in many group exhibitions across Australia. Her work has been selected in numerous print awards including the Fremantle Print Prize (2007) and the Banyule Award for Works on Paper (2011, 2009 and 2007). In 2005, Sophia was commissioned to complete a work for the Print Council of Australia and her work is represented in collections including the Burnie Regional Art Museum, La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology and State Library of Victoria.”

Press release from Beaver Galleries

via Art Blart.

More on Beaver Galleries website.

Snowflake photographs by Kenneth Libbrecht (1958- ) and Wilson Bentley (1865-1931)

Official Snowflake Bentley Website.
Snow Crystal Photographs by Kenneth Libbrecht.

Meca

Magnetism II by Ahmed Mater.
Ahmed Mater's official website.

Ele está morto e ele vai morrer

Tríptico de Alexander Gardner.
Na foto, Lewis Pain, 26 abr. 1865.
Sobre a foto: Hot Dead Guys.>

Manuel Mira Godinho, fotógrafo.

Fotos de Manuel Mira Godinho no Flickr: UnprobableView

Hin Chua, fotógrafo do insólito

Hin Chua - After the Fall from Hin Chua on Vimeo.

Site Oficial.

We make

"and we build a home. word by word, sentence by sentence. we make stories, trace letters in the air, long into the night. we make."

via The Rest Is Bullshit.

1˚ de maio - dia do trabalho

Comemoração do 1˚ de maio, em 2011, na Praça Taksim, Istambul:

Mais fotos no Flickr.

Havana por Max Cardelli

Mais um da série fotógrafos de moda.
Do ensaio Havana, 50 years after the revolution:

Ensaio completo no Site oficial.

Ricky Alexander - Sorriso

Irmãos brincando em Xinjiang, China, por Ricky Alexander, finalista do SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2012 na categoria Sorriso.

Loretta Lux - Inocência e Desconforto

A arte estranha de Loretta é resultado da mistura de pintura, fotografia e manipulação digital.
Um pequeno trecho de uma entrevista dada no Brasil:
"…meu estúdio é realmente descomplicado. Nos primeiros anos, eu nem tinha iluminação de estúdio e só usava luz natural. Eu ainda acho que a luz natural é a mais bonita, mas nem sempre tenho paciência de esperar  pela perfeita situação de luz. É por isso que uso luz artificial agora. Quanto ao trabalho digital, eu apenas levo bastante tempo. Vejo as imagem em progresso e comparo os diferentes estágios. Gosto de ter meu tempo e nunca corro com uma imagem. O motivo pelo qual muito da fotografia digital parece porcaria é porque freqüentemente é pesada, exagerada, e parece falsa a centenas de metros de distancia. Eu prefiro um trabalho sutil, bem pensado."

Leia a entrevista citada na página do Paraty em Foco.
Mais Loretta no KROUTCHEV.
Site oficial.

Yoshiyuki Iwase

Mais de Yoshiyuki Iwase:
KROUTCHEV PLANET PHOTO.
Anthony Luke's.
Things Asian, sobre as Ama, fotografadas por Iwase.

Richard AVEDON: Warhol's shoes