To end Garry Winogrand week, I bring you a photo from his fantastic series, “The Animals.”
Photographer of the Week: Bruce Gilden
(This image is certainly going to get this blog marked as a pornography website.)
Photographer of the Week: Thomas Alleman
(“‘I take one look at you, man,’ he said, ‘and I know you ain’t never gonna stop.’”)
Photographer of the Week: Corinne Day
“Right from the start, I thought I’d rather shoot with Corinne and not get paid than do catalogs,” Ms. Moss said, referring to Corinne Day, a photographer who, more than anyone, was responsible for exposing Ms. Moss to the public at a time when supermodels with their Olympian beauty were the vogue. “I don’t think my agents were very happy about it at the time,” Ms. Moss said.
Photographer of the end of the week: Lise Sarfati
(Her Hollywood dolls turned destitute are just as compelling online as they are hung on a wall, but if you want, you can go see her latest show, currently open at Yossi Milo.)
Photographer of the Week: Kevin Kunstadt
This image makes me sick with longing for the Dolomites (the Italian Alps), where it was taken.
Incidentally, Kevin and I took beginning Italian together our sophomore year at Brown. He’s one of only ten people to have witnessed me singing “A Time To Say Goodbye” (Il Mio Cuore Va), while wearing a pleather miniskirt and a choker, Sarah Brightman style, during a presentation.
An exhibition of this image, and others, is currently up at Smith College. You should also check out his gallery—also his apartment, the last time I was there—which shows killer work by emerging photographers. It’s called K&K, and it’s right down the street from Diner in Williamsburg.
Photographer of the Week: Jungjin Lee
I’m both interested, and not interested, in Jungjin Lee’s photographs. Interested because I have this irrational desire to travel to the desert today, and she’s taken some pretty killer shots of it. And not interested because the work, while melancholy and textured—and sometimes reminiscent of Song Scholarly Paintings, which I love—is, after a few clicks, a little bit boring.
I also made the mistake of reading some of her writing, which I assume is translated poorly, but informed the way I was looking at the work nonetheless. I won’t quote it here. Instead, check out the series, “The American Desert,” the series “Israel,” the series “Wind” (her most famous), and the series “Pagoda,” in which the photographs look like Noguchi sculptures compressed into two dimensions.
Photographer of the Week: Gustave Le Gray
(Inspiration from Shark Mobczak, whose photographs are a modern day equivalent!)
