When at night we close our eyes, the ensuing darkness wraps us in a blanket of fear. Photographer Lele Saveri’s latest book, Incubi et Succubi, is about turning this notion on its head, bringing his most intimate nightmares to light through visual tales of fear—and love. Olivia Fincato: Why “incubi”? Lele Saveri: I wanted to [...]
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January to August by Erik Madigan Heck
August 31, 2011 – 7:07 am
Erik Madigan Heck, the New York-based photographer who shot the cover of our soon-to-debut fall 2011 issue, is launching his first book, January to August. The book’s release will coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Ion Studio. Opening night is this Thursday, September 1, from 7pm-10pm and all are welcome. So stop [...]
Steven Sebring on Illumination
April 7, 2011 – 12:18 pm
Entering the Milk Gallery exhibition Illumination: Who Are Poets by Steven Sebring, one is greeted by large canvases simply tilted against the walls, showcasing pixelated portraits of top artists, musicians, and, ultimately, poets. At close range, the images appear to be beautiful colors stacked upon one another. Further away, they transform into portraits of Philip [...]
Francesca Woodman: April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981
January 19, 2011 – 11:23 am
Thirty years ago today, Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the window of a Lower East Side Manhattan loft. A photographer, she was prodigious and original; she had been a star pupil at the Rhode Island School of Design and a contemporary of the Surrealists in Rome. She left behind 800 negatives and 120 [...]
In Conversation with Alessandro Zuek Simonetti
September 12, 2010 – 10:30 pm
From NYC 08-10. All images by Alessandro Zuek Simonetti. I met Alessandro in Milan while he was preparing a photography exhibition. He’s a sort of Al Pacino-looking guy who grew up in Bassano del Grappa, a little Italian city near Venice, and moved to New York in his twenties, eventually finding his professional footing as [...]
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos
June 29, 2010 – 10:06 pm
The tick of time has almost never failed to vindicate Stanley Kubrick. His films—sometimes plodding, sometimes maddening, always uncompromisingly singular—were popularly derided upon debut for their difficulty. Genius, apparently, is an acquired taste. In any case, each is now considered an indispensable pillar within one of the most celebrated and influential canons of cinematic history. [...]
Remembering Irving Penn 1917-2009: The Revolutionary Fashion Photographer
December 28, 2009 – 9:00 am
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.””- Irving Penn Penn’s uncanny ability to make simplicity mesmerizing while glamorizing the “everyday,” transcended fashion photography into the realm of art. He revealed the importance of [...]
Sante on the Postcard
November 14, 2009 – 11:47 am
Photography sage/sleuth Luc Sante has published a new book, Folk Photography, collecting 122 postcards which purport to document the United States “in all its messiness, sprawl, disaster, homely comfort, hard labor, pageantry, violence, optimism, piety, ignorance, hubris, imaginative flight, orderliness, grandeur, chaos, and pastoral quiet.” The pictures come with an essay, and Sante’s essays are [...]
Look Within at The Bloomberg Space
February 11, 2009 – 11:47 am
Portraits have been created for centuries, and for centuries their viewers have sought meaning and drawn assumptions about the subjects that gaze back at them. At ‘Within: New Photographic Portraits’ at the Bloomberg Space in London, four artists were commissioned to explore the subtle psychological power and ambiguity of portraiture. Asked first to consider ‘the [...]
