Terminal Bar
Sheldon Nadelman worked as a barman from from 1972 to 1981 at the Terminal Bar on Eighth and West 41st, opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square. In this time he would ask his many customers to sit for a portrait producing a body of work amassing to 2,600 photographs. All these photos have been catalogued by his […]
Naked and Free (Running)
Tim Shieff is a World Champion Parkour athlete, he is also the subject of a project he and his fellow free running athlete and photographer, Jason Paul, put together to produce a limited run of fine art prints. Their inspiration for this comes from their relationship with TV chief Jamie Oliver, AKA the naked chef, […]
When Pop Culture Meets Classical Art – Super Flemish
Imagine if Wonder Woman or the Joker where about in 16th century Europe, ever wonder how their image would look like? Well Sacha Goldberg did and so produced a body of work featuring all of the superheroes you would have grown up with entitled ‘Super Flemish’ ‘Sacha’s discovery of these characters, which goes back to […]
Time Zero: the last year of Polaroid film
We all know the Polaroid Instant Camera, a point and shoot capable of delivering a printed photo in about 60 seconds. That was pretty instant in 1948 when the first Polaroid camera went on sale to an eager public – the craze of snap & share was born, long before Facebook & Instagram flooded our […]
MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH
Every now and again a work of art makes you feel a little bit different than you did a second ago, this is part of the magic of creating great visuals. Those of us luckily enough to be able to let out the tinniest little bit of insanity needed to create those works are considered gifted [...]Your old friend Tom
Remember MySpace, yea that thing before Facebook took over the world. It’s heavily music slanted social media website. Founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, My Space was sold in 2005 to News Corporation for €580 million, a snip compared to the prices seen for more recent social media sites like Facebook, Twitter […]
Touching Strangers
Since 2007, photographer Richard Renaldi has worked on a series of photographs for which he asks complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10 view camera, Renaldi encounters his subjects in towns and cities all over the United States. Renaldi’s objective was to introduce an unpredictable […]
Who Is Vivian Maier?
The name Vivian Maier probably won’t mean anything to you but recently the name is starting to make her life a more interesting one. Vivian was born in 1926 in New York and was brought up in France. Aged 25 she returned to America to work in a sweetshop and later as a nanny for the […]
RoboPhot, A 2.5 billion pixel photo in the making
Daniel Böschung is a Swiss photographer who’s latest installation is on a very enlarged scale. He uses a AAB robot arm with a 21.1 Megapixel Canon 5D mark II attached to a EF 180mm Macro lens to create these very fine detailed images. His workflow consists for computer controlling the robot and camera to capture every millimetre [...]Musicians Who Shaped NYC
As part of their 100 years of pop music, the New York Magazine issued a portfolio of current shots of 26 musicians who helped shape the music scene of NYC over the last few decades. See if you can tell who they are now, I have to say quite a few caught me out despite […]
