4.23.2009
4.20.2009
Urbanautica, Liz Kuball and Dave Jordano
Woke up this morning and made my daily rounds on this here interweb-which led me to discovering the website Urbanautica via Jennilee Marigomen's flickr (which she was just featured on). It is a very neat site which forced itself upon me to look at every image and to read each statement by each photographer. I'm just warning you now to be prepared for its aggressive guerilla tactics at making the viewer stay on its site until completion :). It's worth it though since there are so many amazing photographers on there some huge- like Alec Soth and Amy Stein along with the likes of up and comer's like Will Govus and Marigomen. However, I was really struck by two people I had previously never seen, Liz Kuball and Dave Jordano. The website is a compilation of photographers who work in documenting the land wherever it may be that people inhabit.
Liz Kuball is based out of Southern California by way of the east. She followed the westward dream like many of us do(myself included) and documented this process of discerning reality from fantasy that us transplants often come to fruition.
from In Store. Liz Kuball.
from California Vernacular. Liz Kuball.
from California Vernacular. Liz Kuball.
Dave Jordano returned to shooting outside of his studio after a 25 year stint hiatus of shooting images inside for clientele. I am glad he ventured back out into the world and so far he has brought us the stories of life on the fringes of society along with portraying a life that once was in his series on the Chanute Military base in Illinois.
from Prairieland-On the Fringe. Dave Jordano. 2005.
from Prairieland-Habitants. Dave Jordano. 2005.
from Chanute AFB. Dave Jordano. 2007.
4.19.2009
4.11.2009
Stephen Shore...
makes my heart drop into my stomach. Just so you know.
"What I guess goes through my mind when I'm taking a picture is I'm thinking wordlessly about how all these elements relate to each other..."-Stephen Shore.
Perfection-thinking wordlessly.
Nienke Klunder
It is insane where she starts from to where she
ends up and all the people she can become in between.
The image above and below are examples of one of
her sequences. She started off as a soldier
and ended up a clown.
from Sequence 5, Nienke Klunder.
Nienke Klunder is a multi-media artist; however, I am naturally drawn to the photographs she makes-and for good reason!! Her photographs deal with consumerism, identity and myriad of other things (depending on how you want to read into them). They are mostly all self-portraits which I think is poignant considering her topic of exploring identity. Her images are technically beautiful and conceptually beautiful. On top of that they are also humorous-but of course while still delivering her message. I am constantly blown away when I return to look at her work each time.
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