A photographic tour of the powerHouse Arena.
Below are photos from the new book, "Fletcher Street" (Photographs by Martha Camarillo).
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Charles Miller has spent a career detailing the lives and history of Jewish boxers, and here he presents a collection of nostalgic portraits of blue collar, knockaround guys with nicknames like "The Fighting Dentist". Miller implores the viewer to share his deep sense of respect for these men who were not just pioneers, but pioneering businessmen in an artform that is like few others - and in the process, our modern Jewish stereotypes are K.O.'ed as well.
Nigel Parry takes the modern concept of celebrity portrait and turns it into something much larger, much deeper. Such was the case that one did not need to see his portraits blown up to 20x life size, but maybe that's a fitting container for the work.
Last night, there was a book party at Reed Space to celebrate the release of It's All Good by photographer Boogie. Published by Powerhouse Books, It's All Good, is a chronicle of the 'hood.
Spotted: Powerhouse's Miss Rosen and gal about town Alexis T.
From Amazon:
This is an explicit and compelling expose of junkies, gangsters and their families in new york's most notorious housing projects. A gritty, graphic and gripping expose of the underworld and its inhabitants, "It's All Good", the first monograph by Boogie, presents the predators and the prey in the drug game today. Shot in New York City's most notorious neighborhoods - Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant, and Queensbridge - Boogie gains intimate access into a world few dare to venture, a world closed to outsiders, a world of crackheads, junkies and gangsters. From the cops patrolling the project roofs to the addicts overdosing on the streets, "It's All Good", chronicles ghetto life in stark, heart-stopping images and intense testimonials. Boogie brings viewers to a place few will leave and most will stay, a place where escape is one rock, one shot, one glock away.
Charles Kamm's Daily Gallery (via boingboing)
Eric Myer put together this fascinating page where you can select different halves of headshots to be paired with each other. The images are so tonally similar that often you can't tell that you've matched portions of headshots from people of different races. (and sometimes... well, you can.)
Perfect for your horse-hating friends...
(click for original link. Copyright AP Photo/Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Denise Truscello)
This photograph would have been super cool in the 80's. Now it's just kinda sad.
Blog ThePornSpot refers one-handed web surfers (where's that other hand? *hee*) to celebrity look-alike adult stars. The concept: why wait for a nip-slip? Just indulge your celebrity sex fantasy with a low-rent replacement model. Some are all-out porn stars (like Famke Janssen look-alike, Penthouse Pet of the Year and "Subway Tits Girl" Jamie Lynn) while others are merely amateur teen teasers (like Lindsay Lohan clone Heidi Honey):
vs. 
One of Lindsay's first high-deas and, frankly, a genius concept.
(also noted: if you, like myself, are a guy that will claim that you've NEVER EVER seen any of these girls before or that you don't have a huge image stash somewhere on your hard drive of a couple of these chicks, then you, like myself, are a big fat liar.)
"Interesting" Flickr Photos Tagged With "Magritte"
And for further reading: Rene Magritte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read this interview with photographer Jay Parkinson. In it, he discusses his recent photography project of aspiring model portraits. At their homes. In their underwear.
(my favorite)
Dead people bonus: The interview is also notable for including a discussion about this famous image by the NY street photgrapher Weegee (who you know you want to look up on Wikipedia):
A Reader's Toolbox:
Nowadays desktop computer is becoming old-fashioned day by day because new technologies have taken over them like laptops and even cell phones. But still they are used in many offices and houses. People use built-in digital cameras present in their laptop to share and view the pictures and movies. For computers you can sign for any online dvd rental store and get your DVD online.
Mr. Kottke shared a link to a digital photography project generating simulated aerial views of apartments. Quoted:
"Plan" by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga, consists of 10 photographic compositions which are an extremely detailed representations of 10 private apartments. All of them were photographed as if the ceilings were taken off. Such an unusual effect was achieved through the use of a special technique: the overall picture of a room is an aggregate of dozens fragmentary photographs taken from above, and then merged using a computer. This gives the impression as if a scanner moved over the apartments - there are neither deformations nor blurred fragments, the precision of the image is dazzling and the possibility to enlarge it is practically unlimited.
Bonus points for the included bald naked lady, if you want to get it on with your Star Trek: The Motion Picture bald lady fetish.
Not much to see, unfortunately, but another brief glimpse here in the Polish version.
A Reader's Toolbox:
As the world is advancing by, new technologies and electronics have merged in the market like cell phones. For computers one can also find lots of new and advance devices like digital cameras. Just look at computer output device, printers: one can find lots of versions and models but they are compatible with all types of computers.
New Jersey-based photographer Roger E (flickr: nj dodge) has a great eye for landscape photography, especially at night. This is one from the corner of 7th and 42nd in New York:
You can see more by starting at his 2006 favorites set, as well as some of the other sets he has posted.
Having skipped a fine arts education almost completely, there's still a whole world of discovery out there for me in the realm of well-regarded photographers. Today: Enrique Metinides.
Graphic, unsettling (but famous) photo of car accident after the jump...
Now showing in LA if you're lucky enough to catch it:
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/garcia/garcia4-24-06_detail.asp?picnum=3
More info from a prior show:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/feature/0,1169,1048129,00.html
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