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Pulp Photography
I have mentioned photographer Thomas Allen before (although I can't track down the link just now), who crafts incredible 3D dioramas out of pulp book covers and the photographs them. Turns out he has a rather fasinating blog (occasionally NSFW), which details, in part, how he makes these images. He also has a book available from Aperture.
Portraits of the Red Tails
Matt Bakkom believes the essence of who we are as Americans is just a nail scratch below the surface. The Minnesota artist has made a career of scouring through dusty records, exploring a changing America through documents that capture the ideas and accomplishments of everyone from the infamous to Joe the Plumber.
Zoom In: Dona Schwartz
Spend a few minutes with photographer Dona Schwartz and you’ll start to see a bit of grandeur hiding beneath humble day-to-day routines. “I want to see what’s amazing that’s right under my nose,” she explains. “To me, that’s really compelling. But to photograph daily life, you have to first really see it. You have to be really quick and really observant.”
Hard Look, Tender Touch
“One thing I would never photograph,” Diane Arbus once wrote, “is dogs lying in the mud.”
That’s an odd statement coming from a woman who looked so unflinchingly at the weird world around her. Technically there may not be any photographs of dogs lying in the mud in Revelations, the vast retrospective of the photographer’s work that is currently on display at Walker Art Center, but there are certainly scads of the portraits that many have long viewed as degraded human variants of Arbus’ one supposedly forbidden image.
