Category Archives: Photography

OBEY AWARENESS + Surfrider

Aug 16, 2010 – 11:04 am

The Surfrider Foundation has been working on coastal conservation for 25 years. To mark the occasion Shepard Fairey was commissioned as one of 25 artists amongst the like of Raymond Pettibon, Barry McGee, Alex Kopps and Thomas Campbell to illustrate a piece depicting the world’s most recognized and in some cases threatened surf breaks. Shepard [...]

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Zhang Huan

Jul 27, 2010 – 5:04 pm

“Zhang Huan began his work as part of a small artistic community, known as the Beijing East Village,[1] located on the margins of the city. The group of friends from art school pioneered this particular brand of performance in China and Zhang was often reprimanded by officials for the perceived inappropriateness of his actions. Zhang’s [...]

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Dash Snow

Jul 24, 2010 – 12:53 pm

Dash Snow July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009 For more Dash Snow

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Alex Tipple’s Underwater Photography

Jul 20, 2010 – 12:49 pm

                  These ain’t your daddy’s surf photos.  Alex Tipple started shooting surfing by attaching a camera to his helmet while he was on his board.  He soon began trying to create the perfect rig to capture split-second shots of surfing off the coast of Australia whilst be [...]

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Tom Sachs’ Cameras

Jul 20, 2010 – 12:12 pm

For many years, a small but significant part of Tom Sachs’s production has dealt with cameras. Here are a few of the twelve works, from 1972 to the present, that not only explore the camera as both sculptural and functional object, but, perhaps more importantly, chart the course that photography and the globalization of precision manufacturing has taken [...]

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Paparazzo Extraordinaire

Jul 9, 2010 – 9:54 am

Not many people can say they’ve been sued by Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, gotten his jaw broken by Marlon Brando and beaten by Richard Burton’s bodyguards, but Ron Galella can. Dubbed as “Paparazzo Extraordinaire” by Newsweek, and the “Godfather of U.S. paparazzi culture” by Time and Vanity Fair, Galella is the most famous and controversial photographer ever to capture the most esteemed celebrities [...]

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The Big Picture

Jul 9, 2010 – 9:21 am
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Benoit Debuissier

Jul 8, 2010 – 10:57 pm

Stumbled across these beautiful images… The photography of Benoît Debuisser is sultry and nostalgic in a way that is almost surreal.  He uses a Lomo lc-a to capture shadowy vignettes such as those that lend the greenish-tint to the collection of snow globes on a windowsill below. The softness this creates in the images make [...]

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Family Vacation

Jul 7, 2010 – 9:01 pm

A photo captures a moment, a feeling, a memory. When you look back at family vacation photos, a feeling is automatically conjured up, usually one of glee, joy and freedom of having no worries in the world. As if simply looking at old family photos and re-living the moments isn’t fun enough, New York-based artist Sebastiaan Bremer [...]

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Wild and Beautiful

Jul 6, 2010 – 12:35 pm

Italy’s GIAN PAOLO BARBIERI has been a master photographer for half a century. Best known for capturing Audrey Hepburn, Angelica Huston and Iman in some of the most famous fashion photographs of all time, his editorials have been published widely in Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, and GQ, among others. Clic Gallery in New York is currently featuring [...]

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