Ryan McGinley, Everybody Knows This is Largely Overrated, Sad Pubic Hair

ryan_lede (by ANIMALNewYork) Dubbed “the less creepy Terry Richardson,” Ryan McGinley expectedly drew an obnoxious, canned crowd last night at the opening party for his new show at Team Gallery “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.” The well-connected photographer is known for stripping down the fashionably unkempt down to their tattoos. This time, he strips them of his signature aesthetic as well. Peek a preview of plain, pretty snaps of naked skinny scene kids with good hair. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 19, 2010 at 1:10 pm
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David LaChapelle’s Studio Needs More Neon Signs

See Pharrell shuffle through David LaChapelle’s studio where everything is as grandiosely tacky and day-glo as you would imagine. And he’s got a deliberately crowded Michael Jackson mirror-bureau shrine. Of course he does. |BBC|

By Marina Galperina on March 16, 2010 at 11:35 am
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Is Miroslav Tichý Being Exploited?

With a current show at the ICP and appearances at the Armory, Miroslav Tichý is getting due recognition of his work in the US. All this may be against his consent, in the worst way possible. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 12, 2010 at 3:30 pm
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Annie Leibovitz’s Fairy Tale of Real Estate Excess and Debt Rescue

There’s a parallel between Annie Leibovitz and former portrait subject Michael Jackson and it’s not just the fantastic financial hole both had dug themselves into with wild spending. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 11, 2010 at 11:23 am
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Canadian Artists Stage Fun Photographs Around Embarrassing NYC Potholes

Seems like foreign artists are more on top of city repairs than the city. First, a German artist lego-ed up our wall cracks and now a merry Canadian duo are drawing attention to dangerous NYC potholes by staging photographed fantasies narratively around some of our concrete craters. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm
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Gold Plated Faux Vintage Camera Anyone?

Here’s something for Colbert Platnimum: Check out this 24-carat-gold-plated, leather bound, 130-edition Lomo camera released yesterday. “Frugal fatigue” much? Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 4, 2010 at 3:30 pm
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Andy Warhol at Steven Kasher Gallery

Currently on view at the Steven Kasher Gallery through April 3rd – “Andy Warhol: Unexposed Exposures.” The collection of 70 black and white unpublished out-takes from his 1979 photobook tries to better reflect Andy’s original pretense of Social Diseases vs the “look at all these friends o’ mine” Exposures result. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on March 4, 2010 at 1:30 pm
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Go See: Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood at the Yossi Milo Gallery

South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s photography exhibit Nollywood opens tomorrow at the Yossi Milo Gallery. Third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood, Nollywood produces 1000 low-budget straight-to-video films a year. Tragic, raging, and rooted in traditional story telling, the Nigerian film industry’s focus lays on the supernatural, the symbolic, the melodramatic and the macabre. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on February 24, 2010 at 2:30 pm
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The NYPD’s ignorance of basic free speech and photography costs taxpayers $30k. |Gothamist|

By Bucky Turco on February 10, 2010 at 6:21 pm
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Magnum’s Photography Collection Sold To Dell for 100 Milli

As likely the biggest photography transaction to date (or in the future), computer tycoon Michael Dell’s purchase of the Magnum Photo Agency’s collection of 180,000+ historic press prints is rumored to have cost his private investment company MSD Capital $100 million. The last great collection of master photojournalism preserves the historical spectrum from D-Day to the civil rights movement to Sinatra to Ghandi and the rest, all in precious analog photography. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on February 4, 2010 at 4:00 pm
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