Tag: Photography
“The ideal world would be you didn’t know what gender people where till they took their clothes off,” iconic photographer Nan Goldin says in a recent video interview about her new book Eden And After. Decades of photographs of her friends’ children are compiled here and they are distinctly Nan Goldin, filled with secret knowledge, free in androgyny. The […]
Just in time for this afternoon’s nice weather, here’s a series of 1960s-era photos of Coney Island from photographer Aaron Rose. Check out that muscleman! Rose’s work will be displayed in “In a World of Their Own: Coney Island Photographs,” an exhibition opening next Friday at the Museum of the City of New York. “In a World […]
Paddle8 launched the 15-day “No Clothes” auction today. It’s curated by Vogue creative director Grace Coddington, so it’s mostly photography with many models. Out of the 29 auction highlights, there are only two works featuring nude dudes and a whopping 48 exposed breasts, according to our Titty Count™ (it’s like the “weenie count” but with more implied female agency […]
“By this time he’d opened a new bottle of tequila and was quaffing it down….He sliced the grapefruit into quarters…then into eighths…then sixteenths…then he began slashing aimlessly at the residue.” So goes Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. And there it is. For Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals, Dinah Fried took about […]
For “I Fought The Law,” Olivia Locher staged classic stupid state laws as a series photos. There is a questionable factual basis and a pesky fluctuation in aesthetics, but some of it is quite good. The absurd “In Arizona you may not have more than two dildos in a house” still life borrows from Maurizio Cattelan’s Toilet Paper […]
“I think people world rather see this,” ELLE tells ANIMAL, as she swaps a bus shelter ad with a monochrome self-portrait, swiftly and cheerfully. Just like that, she’s done and we head over to Brooklyn’s MECKA Gallery to meet the legendary street photographer Martha Cooper. Their collaborative art show “Unextinguished” opens this Saturday. For the show, ELLE […]
For his “Relics of Technology” series, photographer Jim Golden didn’t just take immaculate, clean photographs of a reel-to-reel tape recorder, a vintage typewriter and a brick-sized cellphone, so perfectly you’d think they were actually CGI renders by Takeshi Murata. He didn’t just incorporate minimal, gestural animations of softly spinning reels, blinking buttons and a franticly jittering… uh… whatever […]
Willets Point will be gone soon. The area near Citi Field in Queens long been slated for redevelopment, and soon, its rows of auto repair shops and junkyards will be replaced with shiny new hotels, shops, restaurants, and apartments. Photographer Thomas Prior has been documenting the site since 2012, and has work featured in the […]
81 Bowery is one of New York’s last lodging houses. Chinese immigrants, most of them working in construction and restaurant service industry, live communally in 64-square-foot spaces on the fourth floor, partitioned by makeshift walls and roofed with wire cages. Photographer Annie Ling on 81 Bowery: “You’re the same age as my daughter… I have not […]
Leigh Ledare convinced his recently remarried ex-wife of five years, five years after divorce, to spend three nights in a remote cabin in Upstate New York with him photographing her. Two months later, he asked her to repeat the same trip with her current husband, also a photographer, who would take pictures of her and hand […]
