Czech and Slovak Staged Photographs

Vasil Stanko
The Meeting of the Poor People in Paris, 1989

I'm off to Las Vegas again today, so no new posts till Thursday at least. In the meantime, here's a link to a fantastic group exhibit of Czech & Slovak photographers.

Czech and Slovak Staged Photographs

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Jay Gumm really works his images using both digital and traditional manipulation to give his images a beautifully distressed look. He's also one of the relatively rare figure photographers that work exclusively with male models. Great stuff.

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dNET ||| Patrick Demarchelier ||| Photographs

World reknowned fashion & beauty photographer Patrick Demarchelier, is also a truly great fine art figure photographer. Of course, having an army of assistants, a practically unlimited budget and the world's greatest supermodels to work with can't hurt! This link goes to his official website.

Patrick Demarchelier Photographs

As always, thanks for the link suggestion Antonio!

Album Ana Casas Broda

Ana Casas Broda
Diet Journals

The work of Ana Casas Broda is intensely personal and broad reaching without ever becoming self-indulgent or moralistic. Her photos and text explore self image, family relationships, memory and nationality in equal measure. Amazing stuff.

"Since we left for Mexico I often return to Vienna to see Omama, my grandmother. I immerse myself in the albums as if they hide a secret, the key to some mystery.

I can’t tell the difference between the photographs and my memories. I don’t know anymore if I constructed them from the images."

Album Ana Casas Broda

Indie Nudes

Good news, your blog host now has real life gallery representation. Last night was the grand opening of the Fine Forum gallery and I'm proud to say that three of my pieces are on display. If you happen to be in Victoria BC, the gallery is located in Fan Tan Alley in Chinatown, drop in and have a look.

Also, I've just found out that this blog has been linked to by Indie Nudes This has given me a nice spike in my traffic. So, if you're coming here via Indie Nudes, welcome! Don't forget to explore the archives for lots more posts.

Radikale Ästhetisierung!

ET IN ARCADIA EGO
Oleg Maslov and Viktor Kuznetsov

Radikale Ästhetisierung!

le premier festival international d'oeuvres érotiques de Montréal

Call for Submissions-Montreal Festival of Erotic Art

I received an invitation to submit work to this show and thought I'd post it here for anyone who might be interested. Please note, I don't know anything about the organizer and my posting it here should not be construed as an endorsement.

le premier festival international d'oeuvres érotiques de Montréal

the melancholy rhino

Paul Roylance of Melancholyrhino.com is not only a photographer of considerable skill, but he also has website that makes me very jealous AND maintains a fine blog. By all means visit his site and do some exploring.

the melancholy rhino

Margi Geerlinks

In Margi Geerlinks' series "Crafting Humanity" the body becomes a malleable putty that can be shaped and modified at will. The results are both unsettling and engaging.

Margi Geerlinks

Kevin Gruyé

Kevin Gruyé used extensive digital manipulation to create these images that for me at least, bring to mind the paintings of Breugel or Bosch. They are from his 1999-2001 series "Clank, Boom, Bang"

Kevin Gruyé-clank, boom, steam

I recommend you also check out his "Heroes of a People" series.

Heroes of a people

Jaro Sy´kora - photographer

The work of Slovakian photographer Jaro Sykora is strong and disturbing. Using models ranging from the elderly to alcoholics, his photographs are not about the beauty of the human form. Rather they seem to me to be symbolist meditations on human fraility and vunerability.

Judge for yourself here.

Jaro Sykora - photographer

Flor Garduno - Inner Light

Flor Garduno
Edén,
Switzerland, 2001

I just don't have enough superlatives in my vocabulary to explain how amazingly great the photographs of Mexican photographer Flor Garduno are. It's finds like this that really make my day. Visit this excellent gallery of her work from her exhibit entitled "Inner Light"

Flor Garduno - Inner Light

and if you're hungry for information about the artist don't miss the Exhibition Press Release

Fine Art Photography by Christian Waeber

Christian Waeber has an excellent eye for close cropped abstract compositions using the body.

Fine Art Photography by Christian Waeber

This link suggested by Antonio Thanks!

iconic image: james mckenna, photographer

Furies,
James McKenna

"people ask, what are the your pictures about? well, life is hard, and strange; my pictures are about that. beauty turns up in unlikely places. my pictures are about that, too. hope is fragile, but hope is all we have. mostly my pictures are about that. ultimately, the pictures are what they are to you. their meaning lies within yourself. i meant something when i made them, but that's over now"

iconic image: james mckenna, photographer

This link via defocused.net

In Canada where this blog calls home, today is Thanksgiving Day. So I'm off to eat turkey and pumpkin pie at the Mother-in-laws house. So Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian visitors, and to the rest of you too!

http://www.petervanstralen.nl/

I'm pretty sure I've featured this photographer before, but this definitely bears re-posting. If, like me, you've ever found it difficult to find interesting poses for your models, you've got to visit Peter Vanstralen's website. Not only does he make fine images, he gets his models into some of the most amazing poses I've ever seen. Brilliant stuff. I'm adding this one to the perma-links section.

peter vanstralen/

CHRISTIAN COIGNY PHOTOGRAPHS

As well as being a very successful commercial photographer, Christian Coigny produces almost painfully exquisite male & female portraiture and nudes. His studio is located in Lutry, Switzerland.

CHRISTIAN COIGNY PHOTOGRAPHS

Thanks to Antonio for this link suggestion.

Procédés anciens

Nikolaï Bachelet is a master of alternative process photography. He produces everything from Polaroid transfers to Gum Bichromate and Cyanotype prints.

Nikolaï Bachelet Procédés anciens

naked

Well I'm back from my trip so it's time to catch up on some posting. Here is an interesting little piece of interactive flash web art that explores our concept of body image and nudity.

naked

I'm off on a business trip to Las Vegas & Portland so no new posts until next week.

In the meantime, may I recommend you check out some work by your humble blog host?