Photographer Karen Knorr’s series Gentleman, presently on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is a witty collection of mustaches on these dandy Mona Lisas. And it predates the fawned-over UnhappyHipsters.com by about three decades.
Category Archives: Photography
PDN’s 30 Photographers To Watch
March 10, 2010 – 11:12 am
Our friend and Dossier contributer Marcelo Gomes was selected to be a part of PDN’s 30 Photographers To Watch. The Issue should be on news stands now.
Joanna Newsom by Annabel Mehran
March 5, 2010 – 11:57 am
Over the past couple of years photographer Annabel Mehran has taken scores of photos of her friend and muse, folk singer Joanna Newsom. “She combines strength and femininity in a way that I find incredibly inspiring,” says Mehran. “There is something about her that turns on my mind and makes me come up with good [...]
Sean Leonard at Youth Group
March 5, 2010 – 3:35 am
Friday evening artist Sean Leonard makes his debut in a solo show at Brooklyn’s up-and-coming Youth Group Gallery. The show consists of a series of appropriated (‘found’) photographs that have been superficially embellished and thereby recontextualized, immediately undermining any sort of basic, subtextual form. The works have been neither blown up nor titled (and [...]
Collier Schorr Signing at Dashwood
March 3, 2010 – 5:44 pm
Collier Schorr has been working in Southern Germany for the past 13 years, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Titled Forests and Fields, the project spans several artist’s books that utilize traditional notions of category to create different points of view. In Blumen, volume 2 of the ongoing series, she uses [...]
Self Evident Truths
March 1, 2010 – 6:10 pm
On February 15th, 2010, Yosi Sergant asked our friend iO to participate in Manifest Equality, a group show designed to bring awareness and policy change to laws affecting the LGBT community in America. On February 16th iO sent out a call to everyone she knew that was part of that community, asking to photograph them [...]
Irving Penn: Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London
February 25, 2010 – 11:31 am
After much determined negotiation, London’s National Portrait Gallery has managed to secure over one hundred of Irving Penn’s portraits from the closely guarded Penn archive and other collections around the world. Simply presented, these luminous, silvery black-and-white prints make for an unsurpassed body of portraiture which celebrate Penn’s astounding career.
Babylon Falling in Conversation with Johnny Ace
February 23, 2010 – 2:22 pm
The following video is compiled from a conversation our friends at Babylon Falling had with Johnny Ace in his apartment in downtown San Francisco. Best known as a photographer for his images documenting what would become his friend, blues legend John Lee Hooker’s, last ever studio session, Ace is also a well-respected blues bassist. Their [...]
I Miss You When You’re Not Here
February 21, 2010 – 5:04 pm
In her ongoing search for fragility and truth, Dossier contributing editor Spela Kasal photographs everything from emerging models to still-life scenes. The resulting images land somewhere between fashion and fine art, and as of this Tuesday, February 23, they will be on display at Ofr in Paris. The solo exhibition, titled I Miss You When [...]
