nasa self portraits . . .

Curiosity, the recently dispatched Mars rover, took a beautiful photograph of itself earlier this month. Given the great range of terrestrial artists who have documented themselves—Cindy Sherman, Lee Friedlander, Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki S. Lee—it’s not easy for a humble space rover to distinguish itself in the field of self-portraiture. Here’s a selection of ten NASA self-portraits.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth#ixzz27DW30kaU

martin roemer . . .

Roemers’s series “Metropolis,” is a documentation of cities with populations over ten million. Roemers created pictures that convey not only the mass and energy of megacities but also the humanity of the individuals living in them. 

Istanbul. A demonstration by socialists and communists passes through Taksim Square, holding up traffic.

Dhaka. Street vendors sell their wares below a pedestrian bridge at dusk with rickshaws passing in the foreground at a busy street market.

Calcutta. A hand-drawn richshaw wallah stands beside an old Ambassador taxi on Madan Street.

Manila. A market in a slum next to Manila’s harbour.

Cairo. A crowd gathers to look at camels being sold in a specialist market in Giza.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth#ixzz27147B6TF

google street view . . .

How Google Street View is inspiring new photography: You can take a virtual walk down almost any street in the developed world – and it's resulting in some fascinating new art. Click here to read more about this.

florian maier-aichen . . .

Florian Maier-Aichen likens his use of infrared film to an in-between state, discussing photography’s role in picturing the American West and its ability to confound past and present.

stanley kubrick . . .

Check out these intriguing black and white pictures of 1940's New York by renowned movie director Stanley Kubrick. More here.

timothy schenck . . .

Here's a fun summer typology! Click here to see more work by this artist.

mitch epstein . . .

Mitch Epstein has been awarded the Pictet Prize for his timely series American Power.

alec soth . . .

Take a look at this interactive "portrait" project in the 3/13/2011 New York Times Magazine.

award-winning documentary photography . . .

Visit this website to view some wonderful contemporary documentary photography. Spend some time here reading about the Prix Pictet and looking at and reading about the work of these artists, some of whom we have seen in class this semester.

Taryn Simon, Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility, Cherenkov Radiation, Hanford Site, U.S. Department of Energy, Southeastern Washington State Submerged in a pool of water at Hanford Site are 1,936 stainless-steel nuclear-waste capsules containing cesium and strontium. Combined, they contain over 120 million curies of radioactivity. It is estimated to be the most curies under one roof in the United States. The blue glow is created by the Cherenkov Effect which describes the electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle, giving off energy, moves faster than light through a transparent medium. The temperatures of the capsules are as high as 330 degrees Fahrenheit. The pool of water serves as a shield against radiation; a human standing one foot from an unshielded capsule would receive a lethal dose of radiation in less than 10 seconds. Hanford is among the most contaminated sites in the United States. (from series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar 2005/2007)

Yeondoo Jung, Evergreen Tower 2001

Mitch Epstein, Gavin Coal Power Plant, Cheshire, Ohio 2003

world series typology . . .

Photographer Dan Winters has done a typology of baseball gloves used in the World Series over the years. Click here to see more.

resurrection of documentary . . .

Los Angeles based artist William E. Jones has created this visually frustrating animation from rejected negatives. The photos were originally taken by Farm Security Administration photographers to document the American depression. FSA head Roy Stryker performed the editing with a hole punch. Watch the video below and click here to read more.

Punctured from The Paris Review on Vimeo.

fun typology . . .

Remember the Boombox? You may even have one? Here's a link to a photography project by Lyle Owerko that's all about remembering these giant portable music boxes. Read more about it here.

lupita murillo tinnen . . .

UNT photography alum Lupita Murillo Tinnen is showing her work alongside that of Keith Wilson in a new exhibition "Context" at Richland College in Dallas. Click here for more information. The "cityscapes" of these two artists depict interiors and exteriors of the homes of Mexican-Americans.

Lupita Murillo Tinnen, mesa

Lupita Murillo Tinnen, pajaritos

Lupita Murillo Tinnen, el sofa rojo

Kieth Wilson

Kieth Wilson

"mexican suitcase" negatives rediscovered . . .

A suitcase of negatives taken during the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and Chim (David Seymour) and missing since 1939 has been rediscovered. These remarkable images of war have arrived from Mexico City and are on view now at ICP in New York. Click here to see and learn more.

One of three boxes containing negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and Chim (David Seymour).

© International Center of Photography

Robert Capa, [Exiled Republicans being marched on the beach from one internment camp, Le Barcarès, France], March 1939. © Estate of Cornell Capa / ICP / Magnum, International Center of Photography

Chim (David Seymour), [Mother nursing a baby while listening to political speech, near Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain], late April–early May 1936. © Estate of David Seymour / Magnum. International Center of Photography

Gerda Taro, [Young Republican soldier, Brunete, Spain], July 1937. © International Center of Photography.

seeing without eyes . . .

Take a few minutes to watch this short inspiring film about a project by blind photographer John Dugdale. Watch to the very end to see his provocative, elegant, inspiring photographs.

look at these "new-old" photos . . .

Joachim Seinfeld's Modern Nostalgia In Istanbul

Joachim Seinfeld works with painting, gelatin prints, and photography - an impressive feat on its own. Born in Paris, educated in Florence, and exhibited throughout Germany, its only a matter of time before his name is passed from gallerist to gallerist in the US. He's presenting this new body of work at Canakkale Biennial and the Istanbul Art Fair this year.

The paintings used in these works originate from walls of demolished or readjusted buildings. With the aid of a special procedure they are removed from the walls and fixed to a new support, whereby a silver gelatine photograph is developed upon them. The photographs from this series date from the time of the making of the houses.