Since 1968, Josef Koudelka has continuously employed a panoramic camera to showcase terrains that have been shaped, altered and destroyed by the effects of industry, time and territorial conflict. Measuring over eight feet in length—a scale which transforms the works into life-size picture windows—Koudelka’s photographs are devoid of human figures but not of human presence, with scars of mining operations, industrial exploitation and constructed physical barriers evident in the shots. Joself Koudelka: Twelve Panoramas, 1987-2010 is on view at 508 West 25th Street, New York through February 14.
Image: Amman, Jordan (2012).
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Lots and lots of waterfall images from the little hike I did on Sunday up Baldpate. Here’s another.
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Michael Behymer San Francisco, CA Fuji X-Ti
Michael, you’re not only an amazing photographer but also a very inspirational person to us all. Please tell us how your photography portrays your perception of the world?
Photography is a way to escape from our everyday lives. It gives us a reason to travel to new places for something exciting; it also gives us an excuse to go back to areas that we have been thousands of times in hopes of discovering something new.
My perception of the world is no different than anyone else’s. I just happen to have a camera. I like beautiful things and when I see beauty I like to capture it and keep it for myself. Photography has taught me an important lesson: everyday beauty will pass us by if we don’t actively seek it. This not only applies to photos, but everyday people. It isn’t simply the overall picture that makes something attractive, it is the individual parts that add up to make that something beautiful.
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FEATURED ARTIST: Lucy Kim
Lucy Kim (b. 1978, Seoul, Korea, lives and works in Massachusetts) incorporates plastic and aluminum foil casts of people, animals, and objects into her relief paintings, often distorting the recognizable by manipulating the materials during the mold-making and casting process. She developed this method to merge the representational lineage and plasticity of painting with indexical impressions of the people and objects around her. The visceral distortions - flattening, unfolding, stretching, and enlarging - are attempts at physically mimicking manipulations commonly used in photographic images, the literalness usually leading to eerie humor. Drawn from both her personal life and popular media, the work engages with the entangled relationship between the two and forces the compression of image and subject.
Kim received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2007. She has been a fellow at the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music and the MacDowell Colony, and a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been featured at Lisa Cooley, New York; Mon Chéri, Brussels; Flash Art NY Desk, New York; Regina Rex, Queens; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Field Projects, New York; Wassaic Project, Wassaic and others. She is a founding member of the collaborative kijidome. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Lisa Cooley in 2015.
Lucy Kim, He Left With Flounders, 2014. Oil paint, various plastics, spray paint on dibond panel, 64 x 48 inches. Courtesy the artist and Lisa Cooley, New York.
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