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Homage to Escher (Prospect Heights)

A few screws, a little time, and this...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Retrospective at MOMA

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The photographer who took some of the most influential photographs of the 20th Century (and made the word Leica a household name) is having a giant posthumous retrospective at MOMA. This photo, taken in April of 1945, though less artful and more strictly photojournalistic, is one which has always resonated with me. Besides the explosive emotion, there’s a novel’s worth of content which can be extrapolated from the scene. For those of us who were schooled in the decisive moment street photography aesthetic, HCB is a god. His genius was not only in his timing, but in his distance. Asked once about what inspired him to trip the shutter when he did, he said, I’m paraphrasing, “La géometrie.” True, but like Bach who pretended that all his compositions were nothing more than mathematical variations, form is clearly married to passion throughout HCB’s work. What makes the show, which opens Sunday, a real treat is that many never before seen photos will be on view, some of which are included on the HCB, The Modern Century’s web preview.
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Graffiti Art (Crown Heights)

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Twins (Woodstock)

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An image rediscovered from 5 years ago when testing out Adobe’s new Lightroom 3 beta, which is fantastic btw.
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Mouse Trail Art

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I discovered a neat little program which records your mouse movement (clicks, pauses, trails) as you work on your computer. Above is 3 hours of mouse activity around my desktop. Below is 7.4 minutes of mousing without the background. Looks pretty, means nothing, but is very fun.
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ABC No Rio Opening (L.E.S.)

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Fellow artist, Fred Fleisher, was part of the giant 7th Biennial at ABC No Rio which opened on Friday night. Also featured were a couple of artists from my LMCC residency, Mike Estabrook and Nanna Debois Buhl.20100319_JABCNoRio_IdesofMarch_Opening-0120100319_JABCNoRio_IdesofMarch_Opening-0620100319_JABCNoRio_IdesofMarch_Opening-0420100319_JABCNoRio_IdesofMarch_Opening-0220100319_JABCNoRio_IdesofMarch_Opening-11
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Pierrot, Salt, Pepper

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A bunch of salt and pepper packets came with my egg and bacon on a roll. Interestingly, they were about the size of the thumbnails on my Pierrot 2.0 promo card.
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The Straitjacket

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My friends LuLu LoLo and Dan Evans are staging a production of The Straitjacket, a fictionalized play about Emily Dickinson in the Metropolitan Playhouse’s Another Sky program on American women writers.
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Murals (Prospect Lefferts Garden)

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Alex Katz Studio (Tribeca)

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Finishing up my last shoot of the year, I discovered some scaled-down maquettes of paintings used to design an upcoming exhibition of Alex Katz’s work.
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LuLu LoLo Visit (East Harlem)

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Alex Katz Studio

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Irving Kriesberg, 1919-2009

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We had nearly completed documenting over 60 years of his work, when he died on November 11th. An obit is on the NYT here.
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Lie Detector Test (NSB)

Many gigabytes of my video, sound, and body data were recorded by artist Paulette Phillips in Room 17 at Atlantic Center for the Arts. Ever the cruel sadist, Paulette forced us to tell lies under threat of high-voltage electronic shock as we were strapped naked to a medieval chair. Do I lie? I lie. A really interesting art project actually, and I was glad to be data harvested.
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Mein Baaden Meinhof

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Coincidentally, I was looking through a catalog raisonée of Gerhard Richter's work on the 32nd anniversary of the biggest events of the German Autumn on October 18, 1977. I am returning to a novel which takes some of its inspiration from the tragic, misplaced angst of the RAF.
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Irving Kriesberg in His Studio (West Village)

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Irving Kriesberg's West Village Studio

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Irving Kriesberg's Palette

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A blurred closeup of Irving Kriesberg's oil paint palette. More about the 90-year old artist, whose work I have been documenting, in future posts.
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Caravaggio Postcard (Bronx)

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Public Art (SoHo)

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Studio Finally Ready to Rock and Roll

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Another Digital Manipulation Controversy

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LuLu's Final Bow (Astor Place)

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38 Witnessed Her Death

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New Suburban Geometries Images (Santa Maria)

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Art in Odd Places 2009 Benefit (East Village)

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LuLu as a Newsboy on 14th Street

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Gandhi Statue (Union Square)

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Graffiti Art (Prospect Heights)

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Soapbox Gallery (Prospect Heights)

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Dennis Oppenheim Opening (LES)

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Grafitti (LES)

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Recent Published Work

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New Studio

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38 Witnessed Her Death...

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Scintillation

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Chelsea

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Dumbo

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POTUS Sculpture (Borem Hill)

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Homage to Nadar Project

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Suburban Geometry Series (Santa Maria)

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"Blow Out," 2009

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Painting in the Window

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Speaking of Books...

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Alex Katz in His Studio

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LMCC Custom House Reading

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Photos of Photos

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Another Pierrot Test

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Pierrot Redux

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Buddha Project

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Statue of Liberty and Eliason Waterfall

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Me & Muna

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Opening in Chelsea

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Musée d'Orsay

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Musée Rodin

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The Americans Turns 50!

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LMCC Open Hours

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Montgomery Mall (Hommage to Ragubir Singh)

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Framing—what else is street photography about? Windows within windows. Rectangles within rectangles. A grid of views. A bento box of subjects.
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Raghubir Singh, who took the above picture, is my favorite Indian photographer. He made a great book of pictures called A Way into India, which featured the Ambassador, India's ubiquitous version of the VW, as object and frame for his peregrinations through his colorful homeland. Check out some of his pictures here.
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Vijay in his New Studio

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National Gallery

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Propaganda Photos: Which Came First—Chicken or Egg?

If you haven't been following Errol Morris' indefatigable research into which of Roger Fenton's two pictures of the Valley of the Shadow of Death came first, it is definitely worth a read (part1, part2, part3). Like a one-manned JFK assassination inquiry, Morris tries to refute Susan Sontag's claim that the photo with the canon balls on the road was staged, "a fake." This whole subject is fascinating for photographers like me who strive to document reality, but know that aesthetics often trump when the subject is mundane. Here are the two photos in question. Now, which was shot first and why?
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Dumbo Arts Festival

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Bill Sullivan MTA

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