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.

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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.

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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.

daniel kukla . . .

For close to a month last spring, the Brooklyn-based photographer Daniel Kukla lived alone in a cabin in the northwest corner of the national park. Armed with a camera, a large mirror and a painter’s easel, he set out at dawn or dusk every day to document the forces — human, environmental and geologic — that give the park its variety and vitality. Each of the resulting tableaux feature one landscape mirrored onto the backdrop of another, creating two opposing scenes in a single visual pane.

To see and read more about this project click here.

jonathan smith . . .

Jonathan Smith views London from some unique vantage points to tell us something different about this place. Commenting on his "Urban Perspectives 01" series, he says, "The focus of this set is on looking at inner-city london from an alternate angle (mainly up). I like to notice the beauty and simplicity in the everyday and celebrate it."

todd hido . . .

Todd Hido's recent exhibition at Bruce Silverstein Gallery consists of a series of large scale photographs taken from the vantage point of his car seat. Click here to read the press release.

laura lancaster . . .

Laura Lancaster has photographed people as they visit a place - the installation created at the Guggenheim by Hans-Peter Feldman. He papered the gallery's walls with a hundred thousand dollars - the money he received as winner of the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize. Click here to read more.