Tag: Photography
The East River Ferry isn’t only for tourists. It’s actually a convenient and scenic way for New Yorkers to avoid the subways and see the city from the water. All aboard! Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last year, Arne Svenson began secretly photographing his neighbors in their homes, as seen through his 2nd-floor TriBeCa apartment window. Now, the Julie Saul Gallery in Chelsea is selling prints from “The Neighbors” for thousands of dollars a piece. The project’s unsuspecting muses aren’t too thrilled about Svenson’s success. Considering the series includes shots of a lady’s butt […]
Inspired by the miniature Pixies renaissance of recent years, the band’s webmaster began compiling vintage photos of the group and hopes to release a book, PIXIES: A Visual History, later this year. He’s taking to Kickstarter to fund the thing (natch), and for a $75 donation, you’ll get a first pressing of the book in all its […]
Brooklyn-based photographer Henry Hargreaves is Burning Calories. The project comments on the US obesity problem. With torches. And shiny. Also, fire. Donut: You are beautiful. I’m going to eat you. And, like, bike a whole bunch. All the food in this is burning series is made from cake. Pizza-shaped cake. Burger ‘n’ fries-shaped cake. Donut-cake cake cake cake cake. […]
It’s hard to imagine Times Square before it became the Disneyfied, Toys-R-Us-bag-toting-tourist-and-kiddie-infested postcard of Capitalist America that we hate so dearly today. Luckily, we’ve come across the photo collection of Gregoire Alessandrini to remind us that those days were more than just folklore. While attending a local film school in the mid-90’s, Alessandrini always carried […]
These are the people that make sure you get to work, safe and relatively on time. It was difficult to snap their portraits, as you may imagine, but I set up a stake-out around the Grand Central and Times Square stops this morning to bring you these photos of subway train conductors. Stand clear of […]
“Misunderstanding Focus” is a very clean series of portraits from Japanese collaborators Hiiroshi Manaka and Yoshiharu Ota, aka Nerhol. Nerhol shot continuous photographs of each subject for three minutes, instructing them to stay as still as you can but they can’t. They fucked up. They moved, a little bit. The slightly different portraits were then cut and stacked in a […]
Since 2005, Brooklyn-based photographer Jeremy Harris has been exploring the eerie, fascinating world of deserted mental hospitals for his photo project, “The Architecture of Abandoned American Asylums.” Harris’ depiction of the oppressive, box-like structures of these supposedly therapeutic institutions is just as mesmerizing as his shots of the personal (and impersonal) possessions left behind by the patients — […]
Since 1999, Tod Seelie a.k.a. Sucka Pants has been shooting iconic New York — not your shiny postcard tourist New York, not your banal work-a-day New York. Seelie shoots sweaty basement DIY shows, firey tall-bike jousting Bike Kill, Swoon’s Swimming Cities trash-art-rafts on the Hudson River, lawless block parties, artists, train-hoppers, anti-heroes — our heroes. He’s kayaked to abandoned hospitals on […]
Just days after Richard Prince triumphantly won his copyright lawsuit, just when we supposedly established that “law does not require that a new work of art comment on any of its source material to qualify as fair use” — today, appropriation rights take a step back. A California judge has ruled that Mr. Brainwash was, […]
