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exile: angels in b&w
by Art Chantry: this is a nifty photo of the original pasted up ‘artwork” (such as it is) of the rolling stones’ “exile on main street” LP cover. it belongs to the permanenet collection of the EMP (experience music project) … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, art chantry, Diane Arbus, Edward Steichen, EMP Seattle, Exile on Main Street, Experience Music Project Seattle, Jack Kerouac, John Van Hammersveld, robert frank, Robert Frank photography, Robert frank The Americans, The Rolling Stones
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fugitives
The filmography of Morris Engel is brief : three films in about six years and that of Ruth Orkin is even briefer since she collaborated with Engel on only the first two of those films. Still, the husband-and-wife working … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cathy Dunn, Edward Steichen, Francois Truffaut, Gerald O'Loughlin, john cassavetes, Lori March, Morris Engel, Morris Engel Lovers and Lollipops, Morrsi Engel The Little Fugitive, Ray Abrashkin, Richie Andrusco, Robbe-Grillet, ruth orkin
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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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master of overstatement
An illustrator we don’t get much exposure to anymore: John Osborn. He was not just an illuminator of other people’s texts, but mainly, most importantly, a social critic of penetrating qualities given the social context, mainly Cold War era, he … Continue reading
posing with the circus animals
A dual nature. The intertwined carnality and nobility. William Butler Yeats. With age, his imagery turned sensual and direct. A wild wicked old man he would call himself, who regretted the celibacy of his youth and for whom the act … Continue reading
lets build something together
The realistic underside. A commentary on the tenuous grip on sanity that an excess of reason and common sense produce. The dead-end of the escapism into stark materiality. Portrait of a realistic underside of the economic miracle where all the … Continue reading
their favorite game
He was considered the most glamorous name in photography and his fusion of commercial and high art brought him controversy, but also redefined fashion photography. It was high-end marketing with a pop sheen to it. Cinema noir with a trace … Continue reading
repercussions: the esoterics of bronze
The art world divided into warring and acrimonious factions over Auguste Rodin’s “Balzac” was first exhibited as a full size plaster version of the statue shown to the public at he Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1898.Because … Continue reading
THE LAST POTLACH
…In some cases, the indigenous people were the commissioners of the photos; in others, they were props for a romanticized version of themselves sold to an audience nearly rabid for “exotic Indian” imagery.The Likeness House was, to the First Peoples … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, Benjamin A. Haldane, Dan L. Monroe, Dan Savard, Dave Obee, Edward Curtis, Edward Curtis American Indian, Edward Curtis photography, Edward Steichen, George Horse Capture, Heather Reid, Images from the Likeness House, John Lutz, Robbie Robertson
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