The lovely Dana thinks I have something interesting to say.
http://yellowtrace.com.au/blog/2010/09/29/interview-josh-raymond/

http://www.bernhard-fuchs.net

http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/larry-sultan-pictures-from-home/

“The furnishings and objects in the house, which have been carefully arranged, become estranged from their intended function. The roll of paper towels on the coffee table, the bed linens in a pile by the door, the shoes under the bed are transformed into props or the residue of unseen but very imaginable actions. Even the piece of half-eaten pie on the kitchen counter arouses suspicion.”

via photoeye

Mark Twain in the lab of Nikola Tesla, spring of 1894. Taken in the spring of 1894, and originally published as part of an article by T.C. Martin called “Tesla’s Oscillator and Other Inventions” that appeared in the Century Magazine (April 1895).

via Wikipedia

PDN Online

Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne.

185 Flinders Lane, 24 October – 14 November

Anna Schwartz Gallery

My friend Pauline has some words about pink for you. Mummy Drinks. http://mummydrinks.blogspot.com/

http://www.jeongmeeyoon.com

The Australia Council for the Arts today announced Australia’s official representation for the Venice Biennale 2009.

Artist Shaun Gladwell will present his work MADDESTMAXIMVS in the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini.MADDESTMAXIMVS is an evocative suite of five thematically interrelated videos, with several sculptural and photographic elements. The work is influenced by the Australian desert landscape, the Mad Max movies, as well as his own experiences in outback Australia.

Press Release here

Corey Arnold. See more at http://www.coreyfishes.com/ and http://www.saratecchia.com/

New solo show at Team Gallery is quintessential McGinley.

Photographed with the unintended aid of the federal police. A portrait of Shaun Gladwell during APEC. Talk about police state. In this issue of Art Asia Pacific Magazine. A few other shots also make it onto the page. Check it out.

BLACK&BLUE GALLERY
SAO PAULO. NEW YORK. JAPAN
VLAD DA CUNHA. NATASHA PHILLIPS. JOSH RAYMOND

Disappointment 1.

BLACK&BLUE GALLERY. April 25-May 11

I tire of late and empty photography. However I am thrilled to relay Matthia Spetrusschallers work. Particularly the gossipy images of Ruff’s and Gursky’s studios. Sexy.

I’m not a fan of photo-illustration so perhaps I can never warm to Belinda Mason’s “Four Generations,” the winner of the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize for 2008. Is this really the creme of the crop? Give me a break.

“Chuse a day on which to represent the most sublime and affecting tragedy we have; appoint the most favourite actors; spare no cost upon the scenes and decorations; unite the greatest efforts of poetry, painting and music; and when you have collected your audience, just at the moment when their minds are erect with expectation, let it be reported that a state criminal of high rank is on the point of being executed in the adjoining square; in a moment the emptiness of the theatre would demonstrate the comparative weakness of the imitative arts, and proclaim the triumph of the real sympathy.”

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Thanks to Alex Ross. http://www.therestisnoise.com/

I stumbled across Amy Stein’s work recently and it sits in a cannon of work like Simon’s for me. Uneasy, gentle and above all beautifully observed and softly, softly when it come to the steps of the photographer. Restrained and grand.

White Tiger (Kenny), Selective Inbreeding

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge and FoundationEureka Springs, Arkansas

In the United States, all living white tigers are the result of selective inbreeding to artificially create the genetic conditions that lead to white fur, ice-blue eyes and a pink nose. Kenny was born to a breeder in Bentonville, Arkansas on February 3, 1999. As a result of inbreeding, Kenny is mentally retarded and has significant physical limitations. Due to his deep-set nose, he has difficulty breathing and closing his jaw, his teeth are severely malformed and he limps from abnormal bone structure in his forearms. The three other tigers in Kenny’s litter are not considered to be quality white tigers as they are yellow coated, cross-eyed, and knock-kneed.

Katy Grannan’s ‘Westerns’ is an intriguing new body of work. California’s ‘relentless and cruel sun’ beams down on difficult and awkward inhabitants of a ‘new america’ and it reminds me of Taryn Simon’s recent work “An American Index of the hidden and unfamiliar.” This is photography in a post-bush world. Thank god.

Interview via Queerty 

Born in Boston in 1959, Mark Morrisroe led a brutally short life. After fleeing his drug-addicted mother at the age of 13, Morrisroe found a new home on Boston’s streets, earning extra cash by taking up the world’s oldest profession and following his dreams in the only way he knew how: tenaciously.

His dedication to photography earned him a spot at School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston alongside the likes of Nan Goldin, David Armstrong and Philip Lorca diCorcia. Founder of the punk ‘zine, Dirt under the name Mark Dirt and known to embody a down on her luck drag-queen named Sweet Raspberry, Morrisroe’s credited as Boston’s first Punk.

Despite – or, perhaps, in conjunction with – his wells of talent, Morrisroe battled years of drug addiction and paralytic self-abuse. Like so many of his peers, Morrisroe’s fast living got the best of him: he contracted HIV and died in 1989 at the tender age of 30. Though many may not have realized it, the world lost a legend and with that legend, the record of a life lived.

To celebrate Morrisroe’s oft-ignored work, Andrew Belonsky caught up with another of Morrisroe’s school chums and former boyfriend, Jack Pierson. Meeting at Pierson’s Chelsea a fews days after Pierson returned from art basel Miami beasch, where he had been promoting his more recent collection, Desire/Despair, they chatted about the boys’ first date, Morrisroe’s unique culinary skills and what it really takes to make a legend.

What I like about Thomas Dworzak’s Taliban project is the same thing that compels me to Richard Prince’s re-photography and repurposing of images. Exquisite canvassing. Clear and tight rationale.

Removed from Google and Youtube, this video hosted by Gawker is so thoroughly nauseating but at the same time much like watching TJ Mackey that I couldn’t look away. In my Richard Dawkins “Enemy of Reason” year, is there no more evidence for TC’s madness, stupidity or delusion? Fascinating stuff.

Everybody has one. A celebrity to work with, to photograph. So this year it’s on the to-do list. Photographer seeks A-list celebrity for ‘Projects’ and various parties. I am thinking Johnny? Leo? Anyone? Ryan McGinley has Kate. In fact everyone has Kate.

Ryan’s show at Team in February. Maybe I’ll meet a celeb there.

A little televisual odditiy. Thanks channel nine. The commentary lamented that at least it was a cheese’l and not a cheese ball.