N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
Susan Sontag died in 2004 and that was a tough year for photography. One difficult to forget. In 2004, the images of Abu Ghraib got out and with them started a revolution in photojournalism. From then on, authenticity, a ‘quality’ so dear to documentary photography, changed hands. Legitimacy and believability were no longer available to…
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© Julie Schachter, Powder Obscura Camera & Absolution (20), 2009 © Julie Schachter, Not out of the woods yet © Julie Schachter, Who’s Who 1980 Book on Tripod more of Julie’s work here
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© Sara Rahbar, Untitled, from the series Love arrived & How red, photography, 2008 © Sara Rahbar, Trapped in Dark Night with Nowhere to Run, I Have Died a Million Times Every Night in this Bed (left) + Kurdistan Flag #5 (right), from the series Flags, mixed media + textiles, 2005-2010 © Sara Rahbar, Solitary…
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© Kirsten Hoving, Birth of the star system, from the series Night Wanderers, 2010 © Kirsten Hoving, Music of the Spheres, from the series Night Wanderers, 2010 © Kirsten Hoving, Cassiopeia, from the series Night Wanderers, 2010 “Night Wanderers is a series of photographs envisioning the cosmos. I photograph objects and nineteenth-century photographs frozen in…
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© Scott Alario, all Untitled, from the project Our Fable “I’m in the process of building a folk tale for my daughter. It is a paternal inevitability to make up stories for one’s children, and for me, doing so has recently become the passion in my creative practice. There are two photographs I remember from…
Read Morethe twenty mugshots of Black Bloc protesters arrested Saturday in San Francisco. The detained protesters are now facing charges of conspiracy, riot, refusing to obey a lawful order from a police officer and resisting, delaying and obstructing a police officer, and assault and battery on a police officer. The bail for each person is VERY…
Read More© Anne Collier, Questions (Viewpoint), 2011 © Anne Collier, Questions (Evidence), 2011 © Anne Collier, Questions (Connection), 2011 “I only work in the studio and use a large-format plate camera. It’s a very laborious process that allows almost no room for improvisation. Everything has to be perfectly aligned and calibrated. I’m typically photographing things that…
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© Lucas Blalock, Portrait Study (Nina), 2009 © Lucas Blalock, W.M.t.M.M.B.M, 2010 “I feel that in my own practice I use various strategies to alienate the viewer from the picture but the pictures figure as stand-ins for the world at large.(…) I don’t feel my work is particularly concerned w/ content except in terms of…
Read More© Anne Leighton Massoni, Summer’s calling wishful pennies, from the series Holding Nancy © Anne Leighton Massoni, Woman wind woodard warehouse, from the series Holding Hila © Anne Leighton Massoni, My prom sunday promenade, from the series Holding Leighton “I’m interested in combining photographs i’ve made of empty spaces (spaces once inhabited or currently inhabited,…
Read More© Devin Yalkin, Untitled, from the series Hades (work in progress) © Devin Yalkin, Untitled, from the series Hades (work in progress) “In HADES Devin Yalkin is not so much photographing people, but rather the way they move in space, individually and collectively. He records the culmination in blurring faces, constantly changing gestures and melting…
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© Kathleen Robbins, Untitled, from The Hostess Project “In an effort to further inhabit my grandmother’s memories as a young wife, I began an autobiographical, photographic record of my experiences with her recipe journal. This ongoing project is as much a social experiment as a nostalgic experience. I dress in her clothing, prepare meals based…
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© Erin M. Perfect Untitled, from the series Suspending Belief © Erin M. Perfect Untitled, from the series Suspending Belief More of Erin’s work here
Read More© Christina Z. Anderson, Great Catch, from the series Family of Origin, 2009 © Christina Z. Anderson, Summer Sun, from the series Family of Origin, 2009 “Growing up the youngest in a family of 7 girls and 1 boy was a unique opportunity to be an observer of the social landscape, particularly of the female variety.…
Read More© Aline Smithson, Untitked, from the series Daughter… © Aline Smithson, Untitked, from the series Daughter… © Aline Smithson, Untitked, from the series Daughter… “Daughter: As a photographer, I explore a variety of subjects, styles and processes, but the one consistent element in my photographic journey has been my daughter, Charlotte. As I continue to…
Read More© S. Gayle Stevens, Walking, from the series Calligraphy, 2011 © S. Gayle Stevens, Cornucopia, from the series Calligraphy, 2011 Calligraphy: beautiful writing or drawing photography: light drawing taxonomy: the science of the classification of living things Calligraphy consists of a series of wet plate collodion tintype photograms of plant and animal specimens I have…
Read More© John Divola, The Little Man, 1987-89 © John Divola, Rock Falling Through Water, View From The Bottom Of the Pond Looking Up, 1989 “This body of work is based on some personal observations about photographs. I am fascinated by the concept of the photograph as an impression from, or remnant of, that which it…
Read More© Celia Perrin Sidarous, Untitled, from the series The Book of Things, ongoing 2008-2010 © Celia Perrin Sidarous, Untitled, from the series The Book of Things, ongoing, 2008-2010 More of Celia’s work here
Read More© Santiago Mostyn, from the series Excerpt: All Most Heaven © Santiago Mostyn, from the series Excerpt: All Most Heaven Particularly difficult to do a post on this work. There is a lost of passion within and in between the photographs. Worth seeing it all here
Read More© Katie Koti, Tangle, from the series Asunder, 2008-current © Katie Koti, Fall, from the series Asunder, 2008-current “The images in my current project, “asunder”, reflect my continuing exploration of gender and its relationship to sexuality through the means of photography. The landscape works on various levels in my images. I use the landscape to…
Read More© Claire Martin, Untitled, from the series Slab City © Claire Martin, Untitled, from the series Slab City “Slab City has been created by a small but committed community of squatters in the Colorado Desert of South Eastern California, USA. Taking its name from the concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II…
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