Carey Denniston is a photographer and installation artist based in Brooklyn. In her current show she constructed frames touching face to face so that only fragments of an image are visible. The obstruction allows the stark image originally photographed to become unfamiliar and transform into a different perceived image. These economical moves mixed with minimalist images allows for a poetic experience while engaging with her everyday encounters she has photographed.

This work is on view as part of the Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition at 450 W. 41 St, NYC, through June 16.

These photos are taken from Jason Nocito’s new book, I Heart Transylvania, co-published by Dashwood Books, which is a sort of love letter to his wife, Megan, set in Vancouver.

A scavenger hunt is a game in which an organizer prepares a list defining specific items which the participants (as either individuals or teams) seek to gather. The goal is most often to be the first to complete the list, although in a variation on the game players can also be challenged to complete the tasks on the list in the most creative manner. Not unlike a scavenger hunt, Instagram is a portal where images are shared from our lives with a vast social network via mobil technology but where there is no list of specific things to be found. Or is it?

Always curious as to the interconnectivity of things, (for example, but not limited to how people meet and communicate) “Hunt” is a project that was recently conceived by me and Francesca Fondevila after having established a friendship thru this simple application a few months prior. It’s all about chaos vs. order, voyeurism and how we can curate from unlimited visual stimuli.

Choice blindness refers to ways in which people are blind to their own choices and preferences. The Hawthorne effect is the process where human subjects of an experiment change their behavior, simply because they are being studied. In selective group perception, people tend to actively filter information they think is irrelevant. Perhaps by introducing a control we can further investigate this phenomena in a visual landscape.

Once a month Francesca and I will contact an instagram user that is outside of our circle of friends with a list of 30 items. They will have one day to find, photograph and upload in realtime using the hash tag “#dossierhunt”. The images will then be displayed here using the same layout each time. The first of this series will be from @_metal_mouth_ whom is the aforementioned  co creator for this project.

Above dead bug : string

scissors (all metal) : colored or printed sock

something broken: puddle of liquid

a heart : an alive bug

a secret : something cold

a scar : something stolen

up : down

a pencil : fruit

shaped rock : page 67 from a book

something that makes you smile : something hot

a fork : a cd

poem : a bruise

water : monster

something torn : a number

Sandy Kim is a photographer who lives in San Francisco. She will be signing copies of her new book, Sky High, at the Family Temporary Bookstore at MOCA Geffen, 152 N. Central Ave, Los Angeles, on Monday, April 23, from 5-6 pm.

London-based photographer Stephen Gill bought a lot of 9000 images off Ebay two years ago, marked as documenting London’s East End. They turned out to be thousands upon thousands of wedding photographs. Taken by an unknown photographer in the late 50′s, they document couples wedding in post-WWII London, and have a lovely sameness to them. They will be published in an upcoming book called Hackney Kisses.

via NYTimes

Eleanor Callahan was married to Harry Callahan for 63 years. She was his most frequent and favorite subject, appearing in hundreds of his best photographs until his death in 1999. She passed away this week at the age of 95. And, judging from the photograph of her the Times ran with her obituary, she was incredibly photogenic until the end.

Paddle8, the new online art collecting site, will offer a limited edition of four prints by William Eggleston, Barbara Kruger, David Salle, and Glenn Ligon. The proceeds will benefit Los Angles County Museum of Arts. It’s a amazing way to start collecting works by these art world heavy hitters.

Above image: William Eggleston; Below image: Barbara Kruger lenticular print (3D)

Above image: Glenn Ligon

Above image: David Salle

Kubiat O. Nnamdie is a Nigerian-born photographer who now lives in Miami. His photographs capture events that suggest a narrative with dark psychological overtones and an almost abstract form, with composition that hints at larger spiritual themes. His book, Laspezia is not Miami, made with Italian artist, Jacopo Benassi, will come out in May.

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Julija Goyd is an artist who now lives and works in Berlin. As a language, she uses various media tools, including video, sculpture and photography. Her work reflects, analyzes and draws attention to the search for identity through staged documentation and narratives. She is interested in finding stop motion moments where the reality of what one should believe, how one should behave, and how one should look in order to avoid unpopularity is becoming a pattern for imagination, creativity, sensuality and freedom. This selection of images are from three separate series entitled, respectively, Women in Water, Black & White and Naked Nylon.

Andrew Guenther is an American artist who lives in New York. Born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois, his work deals with the concepts of the evolution of the self, life and spirituality, and  the evolution of culture. Guenther’s work will appear in a group show entitled MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists at Freight and Volume, curated by Nick Lawrence and Mie Iwatsuki. The opening will be on Saturday, January 21 from 6 – 8 p.m.