Archive for September, 2010
Last Call
Last Call, by Judith Stenneken German photographer Judith Stenneken has won first prize in the 2010 Photography Book Now competition, worth $25,000. The competition is run by the online publisher Blurb.com. Stenneken’s book is a melancholy exploration of Templehof airport in Berlin, which is closing down. Templehof was Berlin’s main airport for many years and […]
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Tags: Judith Stenneken, Last Call, Photography Book Now 2010, Photography Book Now winner, Stenneken Last Call, Stenneken Templehof
Grail and Wail
Susan Fereday, Grail Sherry glasses hanging by thread. A spotlight casts their shadows onto the wall behind. Each glass casts a shadow of its form, like a negative. Each shadow sparkles from within: the refracted light from the lens of the glass stem. These are the elements of Susan Fereday‘s Grail, part of her PhD […]
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Tags: Fox Talbot Latticed Window, Grail, Latticed Window 1835, Light out of Darkness, Mirrors and Windows, Monash PhD, photography by other means, Susan Fereday, Susan Fereday Grail, Susan Fereday Wail, Szarkowski Mirrors and Windows, Wail
Looking up in New York
. . .. Manhattan is often depicted as brash and corporate, a city of gleaming new skyscrapers. In reality it’s an old city, saturated with time and history. Architecturally it’s a laboratory where all styles jostle for attention. In Park Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas, you’ll find the shiniest, gleamingest International Style/Late Modern […]
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Tags: New York skyscrapers. Manhattan skyscrapers, skyscraper photos
Bauhaus posters
I’m working on an exhibition of Bauhaus posters that I’ve collected in trips to Germany. These are not the vintage posters from the 1920s but new designs from the last fifteen years, mostly for exhibitions of historical Bauhaus work. The red poster above advertises work by the former student Elfriede Stegemeyer. The Bauhaus is alive […]
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Tags: Bauhaus posters, Elfriede Stegemeyer, Grenadi School of Design, New Typography, NMIT visual arts
Big Cheese
. Dr. Illés Zoltan had his election posters all over Budapest this year. The trouble with putting up posters is you can’t control what goes up next to them. . . . . .
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Tags: Dr Illés Zoltan, Dr Illés Zoltan election posters, election posters, election posters Budapest
Bauhaus Graphics
I have set up a new blog to present my collection of Bauhaus posters. It’s at Bauhaus Graphics, a WordPress blog. The posters and printed ephemera I have collected comes from the schools and museums in Germany where the Bauhaus idea is having a revival. The posters in the blog are recent designs that has […]
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Tags: Bauhaus graphics, Bauhausgraphics.wordpress.com, Grenadi School of Design