jesse burke . . .

August 20, 2012

JESSE BURKE’S INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER

Posted by Maria Lokke

Last week, the photographer Jesse Burke took The New Yorker’s Instagram feed with him around New England, posting photos from wherever he went: a Vermont wedding, snorkeling on the coast of Rhode Island, and other adventures around his home in Providence with his two beautiful daughters and two odd-looking cats. Burke, an avid Instagram user (follow him at @jesse_burke), is part of a growing contingent of professional photographers using the image-based social-media app as an outlet for their work. “Instagram has been really helpful in making the photo world an even smaller place, which is something I really like about it.” told me. “I’ve gained a lot of new relationships that I may have never made in real life. The Internet makes distance a non-issue.” I asked Burke how his Instagram photos compared with his professional and personal work. “My personal work is very considered and more or less produced,” he said. “I use Instagram in the opposite way. It’s quick and dirty, always on the fly. My personal work is meant to be seen as a collection of photographs that act as pieces to a larger puzzle. I use Instagram as a constant stream of thought that doesn’t end, hopping all around from location to location, thought to thought.”

Burke is the second guest photographer in our new series of Instagram takeovers. (The first was Martin Schoeller.) Here’s a selection of favorites from Burke’s week at the wheel of @newyorkermag.

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rineke dijkstra . . .

From the antique statue of the Kritios boy to Edward Weston’s photographic meditations on his son Neil and beyond, youth and its attendant qualities of beauty and innocence has fascinated artists for centuries.  Rineke Dijkstra’s retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York affirms that the Dutch-born photographer is in many ways part of this enduring tradition. For Dijkstra, however, “youth” is not some timeless ideal, but a state of uncertain transition, and since the early 1990s she has produced a complex body of work that offers viewers a decidedly refreshing take on adolescence. Click here to read and see more.

Rineke Dijkstra. "Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992." Chromogenic print, 117 x 94 cm. 

Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris. © Rineke Dijkstra.

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.

joseph nicephore niepce . . .

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras” (1826), known as the world's earliest surviving photograph, is to be shown in Mannheim at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, the museum announced to the press on Monday. Housed normally in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the photograph was last exhibited in Europe on 1961. Niépce’s tin plate photograph will be show as part of the exhibition “The Birth of Photography: Milestones from the Gernsheim Collection,” opening on Septemper 9.

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras” (1826)

camera obscura . . .

Camera Obscura, a room as a large 'pin hole camera' in Venice, from BBC's 'Genius of Photography

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.

jem finer . . .

A perspective-altering work in which a mirrored sphere ‘sits’ atop a shed that internally displays a three-way camera obscura image of the Japanese Garden. Produced with Julia King and Atelier One Structural Engineers.