Welcome to twentytwofifty. This is where I will be posting useful photo information I come across during the semester, things like links to photographers' websites, upcoming exhibitions and events, opportunities to show your work, recommended reading, and much more.

I hope you will check in often. Look, learn, and enjoy!


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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."




Sunday, October 16, 2011

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."









Thursday, October 13, 2011

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.






Friday, October 7, 2011

steve jobs . . .

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living somebody else life."
Steve Jobs.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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 . . .