Archives for Photography

Plastics Kill

Found this website – maybe on Boing Boing? – that shows albatross chicks who die because their mama birds bring them plastic for dinner. This is a pretty graphic indictment of our disregard for the environment, I think. Apparently, the photos were taken on an island located 2,000 miles from any continent in the north [...]

Helga Steppan’s Colors Work

Helga Steppan has an interesting recent project… “See Through All My Things.” The Swedish artist chromatically organized her belongings then photographed them. The large (30×36) C-prints invite me to think of the orders I aspire to hold in my life, the colors that predominate in my belongings and the moods inspired by the palette of ownership. [...]

Luxirare… what a dream.

i love luxirare! i mean … i am in love with luxirare! does everyone already know luxirare?!  it just seems wrong that i haven’t known about this work sooner!!
the blog says “killer clothes + fine cuisine” but i’d add: food stylist, photographer, designer, artist. this is a pic of some potato chips she made, baked and [...]

Cabinet Article

I read a great article on the train this morning from this month’s Cabinet. It opened with an analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald casting him as an attractive young man and his open shirt at the time of arrest as ahead of the Beatles’ curve. Indeed. An image of him with a raised fist is [...]

Great S.F. Pictures

The Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection is a very easy to search and interesting archive. Here’s a link to historic images of San Francisco from which I drew a couple favorites.