cornelia hediger . . .

Here are a few images from Cornelia Hediger's new series "Doppelganger II" recently on view at Klompching Gallery in New York. According to the press release, "With this newly released series of photographs, Hediger continues her exploration of the uncanny, constructing complex pictorial narratives into segmented tableau vivants, consisting of up to eighteen individual photographs combined into a single composition."

lisa kereszi . . .

Lisa Kereszi's documentation of the process of moving a group of carousel horses from Jane Walentas' studio in DUMBO to their new home at the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Kereszi says, "The horses really have different personalities when you get up close and inspect them. Some of them seem serene, but some of them look as if they would take off at any given moment . . ."

richard serra . . .

Recent installation of Richard Serra's piece at Stanford . . .

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.

"defenestration" . . .

This piece is part of a John Baldessari retrospective coming to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 20, 2010. He is a master of conceptual photography. It will be there through January 9, 2011, so if you're in NY be sure to check it out. Fun stuff!

John Baldessari (American, b. 1931)

Floating: Color, 1972

Six color photographs; 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) each

Collection Mario Bertolini, Breno, Italy

© John Baldessari

Baldessari once remarked that a large part of his work "arises from a single word, a chance phrase, or an overheard comment or part of one." For Floating: Color it was "defenestration"—the act of throwing something out a window—a word the artist liked, "because it had a limited meaning, specific to a particular act." Deciding that he should throw colors instead of objects, and basing his sequencing on the simple order of the spectrum, Baldessari jettisoned large sheets of colored paper from his window and captured the process on film. (quote from Met web site)

exquisite corpse" . . .

Here's a fun approach to creating a causal sequence of photographs. In this version of the Exquisite Corpse game by The Fab Collective, each photo actually takes part in causing the following photo. Click here to see the entire sequence so far . . .

a logical sequence . . .

The image below depicts a portion of Fibonacci 1202, 1970 by Mario Merz. Much of this artist's work addressed the "fibonacci sequence", a logical sequence of numbers in which each successive number in the series is the sum of the previous two numbers. In this piece he presents a sequence of photographs depicting increasing numbers of people seated in a restaurant. The corresponding fibonacci numbers are displayed in neon above the photos. Think how you might construct your own logical photographic sequence . . .

Mario Merz, Fibonacci 1202, 1970

cause and effect . . .

The collaborators Peter Fischli and David Weiss (click here for link to Frieze Magazine interview) create films that depict causal sequences. Think about using still photographs to record a cause and effect sequence of your own - minus the fire and explosions, of course - CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!

Fischli and Weiss, The Way Things Go, 1987

duane michals . . .

This is just one of many thought-provoking sequences by photographer Duane Michals. He is a photographic artist you definitely need to research. Click here for interview in Double Exposure.