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Asger Carlsen’s Hester is a gruesomely fleshy, heavily abstracted take on the sculptural female nude.
Image: © Asger Carlsen
Decades before Google, Ed Ruscha made comprehensive portraits of 1960s Los Angeles from the window of his car. A new exhibit of his work opens today at the Getty Museum in LA.
Photo: Pacific Coast Highway (contact sheet), 1974-1975. © Ed Ruscha, courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
In the latest LBM Dispatch, Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar journey to the valleys of Silicon, San Joaquin, and Death. See a few more photos here, go buy your own copy here, and follow the LBM Dispatch Tumblr here.
Photo © Alec Soth: Facebook main campus. Menlo Park. From LBM Dispatch #4: “Three Valleys”
When Irving Penn looks down at the city streets, “the cosmos underfoot” is revealed. A special exhibition of Penn’s urban sidewalk studies opens today at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: From “Underfoot” © Irving Penn
Our look at some of 2013’s most anticipated major photo shows continues, with Bill Brandt at MoMA.
Photo: Belgravia, London, 1951, © Bill Brandt
Posted a feature from the magazine today: “In The Shadow of the Black Sun.” Six photographers who turn one of life and photography’s most reliable constants on its head.
Photo: © Chris McCaw “Sunburned GSP#65 (Nevada).” Chris has a beautiful new book of his work, and if you’re in New York, go see his new show up at Yossi Milo through January. In person, it’s an entirely different beast.
Mauro Altamura took photos of baseball games on television in the 1980s, capturing abstract, ephemeral moments of grace. See more here.
Photo: “Dancing” © Mauro Altamura
Today: A new look at Richard Avedon’s portraits of the powerful, and how he became one of the most important political photographers of our time.
Photo: Rose Mary Woods, secretary to President Richard Nixon. Portrait from The Family (1976). © Richard Avedon
Sally Mann in the Age of Instagram. How long until there is a wet-plate collodion filter? Photo: © Sally Mann/Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, from the new series Upon Reflection.
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