Art on Paper Fair

I went to the Art On Paper Fair on Saturday.
The fair focuses on works by artists who use paper as a major influence in their sculpture, drawing, painting and photography. 
Pier 36, 299 South Street, Lower Manhattan
Link to work shown:

http://thomascampbell-art.com
www.facebook.com/artistkirkmaxson
http://www.kathbradford.com
http://www.bastny.com
https://sfelectricworks.com/artists/eggers
http://standcoffeenyc.com

http://thepaperfair.com

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William Christenberry photographs

"I like it when people ask, “What is Christenberry? Is he a photographer, a painter, or a sculptor?”
I see it all as one piece. There is no separateness. It is about the interaction, the intermingling or the coming together of these various means of expression. I am not just one thing."

"This is and always will be where my heart is. It is what I care about. Everything I want to say through my work comes out of my feelings about that place–its positive aspects and its negative aspects. It’s one of the poorest counties in the state, but it is also a county with great lore and legend. In the nineteenth century it must have been like Gone With the Wind, a place with great southern plantations. It became clear to me during my graduate studies [1958-59, at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa] that I wanted to express my feelings about this place. To paraphrase William Faulkner, “There is enough to write about on this little stamp-sized state called Mississippi to occupy me all of my life.”

"I don’t want my work thought about in terms of nostalgia. It is about place and sense of place. I only make pictures when I go home. I am not looking back longing for the past, but at the beauty of time and the passage of time."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwmZZZoU_gs

Instagram Friday

Recent photos: hearts, snow, nature and props. My Instagram name is: tarheelpip
Are you on Instagram yet?!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Have a Happy Valentine's Day!

Found photo, 1937

weekend Instagram photos

australian mugshots: City of Shadows

Convicted of bigamy and theft.  By the age of 24 Alice Cooke had amassed an impressive number of aliases and at least two husbands. 

Described by police as 'rather good looking', Cooke was a habitual thief.

Convicted of murder. Mrs Dorothy Mort was having an affair with dashing young doctor. 

The Dr. visited her home with the intention of breaking off the relationship. She shot him dead before attempting to commit suicide. Aged 32.

Janet Wright was a former nurse who performed illegal abortions from her house.

A. Matthews was a backyard abortionist who also dabbled in theft and fencing stolen goods.
She was suspected of contributing to the deaths of at least two women. Aged 37.

A. Gunderson had multiple convictions for soliciting and was described in police records as a 'common prostitute'

Emily Hemsworth killed her three-week-old son but could not remember any details of the murder.
She was found not guilty due to insanity.

In the late 1980's tons of negatives were rescued from a flooded Australian warehouse. 100,000's of crime photos were discovered and had been shot between 1912 and 1960 by the Sydney Police. In the mugshots we find thieves, false pretenders, 'hotel barbers', dope users, prostitutes, makers of false oaths and the occasional murderer. We can view, sometimes in amazing detail, their physical settings and the distinctive clothing worn at the time.

"We have been able to piece together many of the stories behind the photographs, but in most cases we have no name and no date – no information other than what is suggested by the image itself. Each photograph offers an intimate, raw and often hauntingly beautiful record of the mysterious people and dark places. This is a most extraordinary and intimate record of the more troubled sides of everyday life in early 20th century Australia. City of Shadows explores police forensic photography of the early 20th century."

City of Shadows, Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948, by Peter Doyle, with Caleb Williams:

http://www.abebooks.com/9781876991203/City-Shadows-Sydney-Police-Photographs-1876991208/plp

http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/print.php?journal_id=67&j_id=6

http://www.laboiteverte.fr/portraits-de-criminels-australiens-dans-les-annees-1920/

Albrecht Tübke photography

I just discovered the work of German photographer Albrecht Tübke. His series of portraits, interiors and landscapes of a small German village called Dalliendorf especially caught my eye.
From his website:
"Dalliendorf is a small village in the north-eastern part of Germany. About 150 people are living there. Life is marked by agriculture, it was always like this. I lived in this village for ten years, but its people continued to be strangers to me. One day I left the place to move to a big town.
Suddenly I realised, that people I left, meant more to me than I knew before. But I couldn't imagine to return. The dictance to the village made it possible to take pictures of people and their living space. During this time it was like I said goodbye to them."

“I want to show people from a variety of different backgrounds, as I am interested in the range of ways in which people present their public face. Though constant exposure to the multitude of public personae with which we are presented, we have become anaesthetised to the range of individuals that surround us. In this project, I am attempting to distil out something of the essence of that individual.”

http://www.tuebke.info 

http://artnews.org/artist.php?i=27

found while walking

Colors in nature discovered today.

A walk through time in London

I thought these photos were amazing and show a fantastic contrasting view of the modern world with the past. After seeing the work of photographer C.A. Matthew in London, photographer Adam Tuck was inspired to revisit the locations of the pictures taken a century ago. Blending his current photographs from 2012 with those from 1912, he has created a new series of compelling images. The people of today co-exist in the same space with people of the past and the photographs capture time passing during the last one hundred years.

One Saturday in 1912, C.A.Mathew walked out of Liverpool St Station with a camera in hand. No-one knows for certain why he chose to wander through the streets of Spitalfields London taking photographs that day. How populated his photos are. The streets were fuller in those days. It is a joy to see so many children playing in the street, a sight no longer to be seen in many parts of London. 

From Tuck's website: This project sought to illustrate the continuing influence of a territory's past upon its present. C A Mathew's photography of East London's Spitalfields in 1912 (used courtesy of the Bishopsgate Institute) have been blended with shots retaken at the same spots in 2012, to create the illusion of people and elements interacting across the century.

Photographs and original text from: http://spitalfieldslife.com
Photographer Adam Tuck's website: http://www.abaculus.co.uk
For more original images: http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/20/c-a-mathew-photographer-2/