© Caleb Charland, Fibonacci’s Pendulum, 2011 © Caleb Charland, Orange Battery, 2012 “Recently one Sunday I spent the day at the kitchen table playing with oranges, copper wires and galvanized nails. My hope was that I could make this on going project work with a single piece of fruit. I tried cutting it into slices…
Read More┐ Zachary Copfer’s bacteriographs └
“Microbiologist-turned-photographer Zachary Copfer has developed an amazing photo-printing technique that’s very different from any we’ve seen before. Rather than use photo-sensitive papers, chemicals, or ink, Copfer uses bacteria. The University of Cincinnati MFA photography student calls the technique “bacteriography”, which involves controlling bacteria growth to form desired images. Here’s how Copfer’s method works: he first…
Read More┐ Susan Boafo, organic photography └
© Susan Boafo, Organs of Extreme Perfection, 2011 © Susan Boafo, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, 2009 “Photosynthesis by microscopic organisms produces the majority of the life supporting oxygen that is required by all living things. In return, our reciprocal relationship provides them with carbon dioxide. The photograph is created by millions of these organisms as…
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┐ Sonja Bäumel, growing a second skin └
© Sonja Bäumel, Embroidered Tattoo, 2007 The embroidered tattoo is part of the fashion collection “Slow down…”. Latex layers have been revived, reinterpreted and transformed into a skin. A skin embroidered with local tradition. © Sonja Bäumel, Crocheted Membrane, 2008/09 “Our skin has a second layer of skin. A layer full of life, which serves…
Read More┐ 25.04.13, this is no ordinary day and it needs repairing └
© Simon Starling (with Yasuo Miichi), Self Portrait (as Henry Moore), Uranotype print, 2011 still from a video about the project “Embracing the Remake” “Kintsugi (金継ぎ) is the art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin infused with powdered gold. The “recycling” of once valued objects, now broken and destroyed represents an art practice…
Read More┐ Augustin Rebetez, from joy to colera └
“Augustin Rebetez breathes energy in his works. He has developed a very ownable style over a very short period of time, even though this is not easy to put in a box. With a combination of free and staged photography using his immediate surroundings, he constantly surprises with his work. Augustin is not afraid to…
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┐ Jenny Holzer, You Must Disagree With Authority Figures* └
© Jenny Holzer, Truism Projection, Venice 1999 © Jenny Holzer, Truism Projection, Buenos Aires, 2000 © Jenny Holzer, Truism Projection, New York © Jenny Holzer, in collaboration with Tibor Kalman, Lustmord, 1993-94 Photographs of handwriting in ink on skin “In many of her works Jenny Holzer explores political themes, in particular abuses of power and…
Read More┐ Stuart Sherman, performance after writing └
Stuart’s Thirteenth Spectacle (time), 1980, can be seen here “Stuart Sherman, a member of the important generation of American avant-garde performance artists who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, developed his own unique style across various media, the impact of which continues to resonate with the avant-garde eight years after his…
Read More┐ Michael Raymond Clarke’s polaroids └
© Michael Raymond Clarke, from the project Requiem (type 809) © Michael Raymond Clarke, from the Polaroid series More of Michael’s work here
Read More┐ Beatriz Preciado, high on transformation └
© Tim Walker, Tilda Swinton, Alien Lands Photoshoot based on David Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (W Magazine), 2011 “The day of your death I put a 50-mg dose of Testogel on my skin, so that I can begin to write this book. The carbon chains, O-H3, C-H3, C-OH, gradually penetrate my epidermis…
Read More┐ Walking, exercising the right to be free └
© Ralph Rumney, all images from Derive psychogeographique à Venise, 1956 Part of Ralph Rumney’s seminal contribution of the International Situationist Movement’s conception of Psychogeography. This detournement of ‘fotonovella’ which Rumney realized in Venice in 1957, was meant to be published in the first issue of the International Situationist Review. These images are from The…
Read More┐ This is punctum └
It’s never too late to talk about punctum. Roland Barthes created The concept, very simple to access but very difficult to locate in linguistic terms. It remains submissive to the subjective order and to the the representation of an image of affection. If one believes in an authentic point of view one should also be…
Read More┐ Paola Zaccaria, Medi-terranean Borderization └
“At the end of the 1990s, as a result of the diasporas produced by new wars and new forms of colonialism, boats, rubber dinghies, and wornout ships started sailing in the direction opposite to that of colonial times: people emigrating from North Africa steered toward the closest Mediterranean shores, especially to the Italian island of…
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┐ Heath Bunting, artivist or anartist? └
© Heath Bunting, Map Of Terrorism, strategic response to state terror funded by Tate, London, United Kingdom, 2008. to properly see the map click here “It is unclear to many people exactly what terrorism is and which activities are now unsafe in the United Kingdom (UK) in terms of getting into trouble with the police.…
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┐ Julius von Bismarck, what the fuck am I doing └
© Julius von Bismarck, sketch for The Image Fulgurator machine, first version. A camera device that projects images instead of capturing them. To understand how it works watch the video bellow. © Julius von Bismarck & Santiago Sierra, as part of The No Project. more about the no projection here © Julius von Bismarck, from…
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┐ Filippo Minelli └
© Filippo Minelli, from Contradictions, ongoing. Project realized (until now) between Cambodia, Vietnam, Mali, China, Italy. © Filippo Minelli, all from the project Silence/Shapes, 2010-ongoing “I started the ongoing series Silence/Shapes in early 2010 to give a physical shape to silence. To realize my idea I chose the chemicals used to create smoke bombs, a…
Read More┐ roots & fruits #13 – Ricardo Baltazar └
© Ricardo Baltazer, all Untitled, from the series Touching from a Distance, 2012 Ricardo’s project Touching from a Distance was shot in Essen, Germany, in 2012. All images are blow-ups of snapshots he took while paving the streets. Inevitably, they refer to the distance between the author and the subject portrayed, as they speak about…
Read More┐ Erotic postcards └
“Pictures of nude women were amongst the earliest imagery to find their way onto postcards and some of the most sought after. Because censors destoyed millions of nude postcards and they continue to be banned from the mail it is difficult to ascetain a full and accurate history of them. Despite continual efforts to eliminate…
Read More┐ #1000 └
© Sofia Silva, Ghost & Xica, 2013 This is Nihilsentimentalgia’s one thousand post. I started it 5 years ago, in June 2008, as I was finishing my undergrad in Photography. It was intended to be archive of all references and links, so it could be accessed anywhere. The blog has evolved, hopefully for the better…
Read More┐ A discussion worth having └
Back at the SIP blog, Rotem Rozental posted about Richard Benari and Lauren Henkin’s collaborative project about the nature of photography. Their work, their questions, could be the starting point of a discussion always worth having. On their site, Richard Benari and Lauren Henkin made available some audio files where you can listen to them…
Read More┐ Peter Puklus, Handbook to the Stars └
© Peter Puklus, Handbook to the Stars “There is a reason why Peter Puklus’ first publication is called Handbook to the Stars, a subtle manifesto of his Ars Poetica. With this handbook he attempts to portray his own universe and provide insight into how his photographic works relate to each other: like galaxies in relative…
Read More┐ Object on Screen └
still from Untamed Heart, 1993 II. Pleasure in Looking/Fascination with the Human Form A. The cinema offers a number of possible pleasures. One is scopophilia. There are circumstances in which looking itself is a source of pleasure, just as, in the reverse formation, there is pleasure in being looked at. Originally. in his Three Essays…
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