Category: artworks
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rencontres #2 (off the wall)
These photographs were taken in the LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers in September 2014. The Parc des Ateliers is a former railroad wasteland covering an area of 27 acres that was first operated by the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) company, which became the SNCF in 1938. The LUMA arts campus, which hosts exhibitions, performances, conferences and other…
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rencontres #1 (délices d’été)
Founded by Lucien Clergue and others in 1970, Les Rencontres d’Arles is one of the world’s great annual photography festivals. We have been fortunate to visit it several times. These images were shot in 2014.
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are, bure, boke #2
The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…
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kafka metro tram
Quadrio Shopping Center, Národní třída, Prague The “moving head” of Franz Kafka (#1), installed outside the Quadria Center in 2014, is by the artist David Černý. The text in image #7 translates as “love somehow doesn’t always triumph over liars or over money” – a pointed allusion to Václav Havel’s slogan “Truth and love must…
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curves #2
#1 Marfa, TX #2 Johor Bahru Feb 2016 #3 Calgary 2016 #1 -3 Clay Ellis exhibition, Third Stake Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, July 2016 #4 Sun Studio, Memphis, TN, September 2013 #1 Waxworks Museum, Melantrichova St #2 Rudolf Kremlička, mural in Fénix Palace arcade, Wenceslas Square #3 Prague Castle #4 Jan Štursa, statues…
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diagonals #2
Prague #1-3 Kampa Museum #4 Franz Kafka Square #1 + 6 Baba #2 Na Příkopě #3 Ovocný trh/Fruit Market #4-5 Trade Fair Palace, Aero poster by František Zelenka) #1 Palladium mall #2 + 3 Prague metro #4 Hradčany Karlín Vyšehrad (#5 apartment block on Neklanova St, Josef Chochol, 1913-14) #1 Smíchov (exhibit in David Černý’s…
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self-portraits with Cindy Sherman
These were taken at the exhibition Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection at me Collectors Room, Berlin, on 15 March 2016. The closest I’ll ever get to one of the greatest artists of our time.
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Theodor Adorno’s desk
being a record of the hunt for Theodor Adorno’s desk in Frankfurt am Main on 12 March 2016
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window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)
I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…
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