new york NEW YORK
john URBANEK: this is my most recent photo series, shot with a macro lens. i was inspired by the challenge of taking a free flowing form and capturing its organic transformations underwater. While the subject matter was only 4 inches tall, the substances take on shapes and life of their own. every person finds their own object in these peculiar formations.
detroit MICHIGAN
detroit experiences: robert frank photographs, 1955
march 3 – july 3, 2010
over 60 rare and many never-before-seen black-and-white photographs taken in detroit by legendary artist robert FRANK are the subject of this exhibition. the work was created while FRANK traveled throughout the united states in 1955 to take photographs for his ground-breaking book the americans, published in 1958.
new york NEW YORK
on display at laurence miller gallery until march 27
press release: laurence miller gallery is pleased to present hyper, an exhibition of 15 color photographs by the forty-eight year old french photographer denis DARZACQ. hyper refers to the new garish supermarkets in paris and rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. the photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. they offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit.
new york NEW YORK
in “ufo (unified fashion objectives),” albert WATSON unveils a collection of his best fashion photographs from 40 years as one of the world’s leading artists in the field. selected from his massive archives, WATSON presents some of his most well-known fashion work alongside images that have never been presented to the public before.
barmstedt GERMANY
classic black and white portraits intersect with vivid colors and bold geometries in the photographs of jens HERRNDORFF. his subjects have oscillated from bands to fashion but the edge remains. through layers of neon and fuzz his images jump effortlessly from their constant backgrounds of white.
oslo NORWAY
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
javier BARRIOS: “electric dome” is a project that very much relates to science fiction where i have thought of the human evolution and questioning its future existence on this planet. as good science fiction there is a bit of utopia in the project, but still it does not make it irrelevant as many of modern technological advances in the last years has been with the aim to prepare humankind for change of habitat in the near future, more specific in space.
dusseldorf GERMANY
rosecrans BALDWIN: take us a few steps into your process—i assume producing these images requires an extraordinarily controlled environment?
martin KLIMAS: yes, the shooting environment must be controlled and kept consistent. the lighting is clear and direct, head on. my background is neutral, but bright enough so that the shattering object completely stands out. i drop the figurine from the same height in complete darkness while the lens of the camera is open. when the figurine hits the ground, the sound triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second. i do this procedure many times or until i find the one frame that is just right. i keep just one such picture for every figurine. every attempt yields a unique outcome, so i need to look for the one that best expresses a transformation of the figurine into a new form.
stuttgart GERMANY
gabi SCHAFFNER: nathalie GRENZHAEUSER’s photographs are not subject – although they appear to be – to central perspective, but are rather the result of an internal journey through a landscape charged by the imagination, while the varied angles of perspective and objects are redefined and incorporated onto the surface. there, where this internal image world comes into contact with the quasi-documentation – still regarded as real and recognizable by the viewer – is where the flexible border runs, on one side of which is the mirror of the photographic tableau, on the other the uncanny element in the subconscious of the beholder.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
chris ANTHONY: a metaphor for a sinking city…there are two venices in the world: one is the floating city in italy, the other is the palm tree-lined california beach. venice is a series of photographs documenting a post-global warming world. it could either be a sunken venice (italy) or a washed-away venice (california); in either case, its survivors are struggling to make it.
montreal QUEBEC
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
kate HUTCHINSON: really for as long as i can remember i have been obsessed with light. i love to photograph light and watch light as it changes throughout the day. this project developed in winter when the sun went down early and i was left with the light of the street lamps. i started studying this artificial light and thought that it would be a great light to photograph my neighbourhood under. and so that winter i spent much time wandering the streets and alley ways in my neighbourhood looking for the right light and the right subjects.
