Manhattan Out by Raymond Depardon
Steidl Publishers has recently released their book, Manhattan Out, which features old works from famed French photographer, journalist and documentary maker, Raymond Depardon. The book is a collection of black and white portraits of New York City on an excursion taken in 1980.
He has won numerous accolades during his time as director of collective group, Gamma, while photographing impoverished and troubled areas of Africa and southeast Asia. The collection in Manhattan Out is another demonstration of Departdon capturing his subjects with compassion and respect to the reality of their lives. An amusing detail about this collection is that most of his subjects were in fact aware of his camera. Depardon caught the grit, displaced glamour and rawness of this truly vibrant city in it’s most exciting of times.
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Human Landscapes from Above by Jason Hawkes
Our previous entry for Alan Taylor’s Big Picture weblog on the Boston Globe showcased the series “At Work.” His latest installment features the works of UK based aerial photographer, Jason Hawkes, in a series titled “Human Landscapes from Above.” Featured artist, Hawkes, has put out an astounding number of books throughout his career highlighting his talents for this niche in the photography world. He shoots with a Nikon D3 from a twin squirrel helicopter as he perilously leans out from the ajar doors with just a harness holding him in place.
What he captures are breathtaking landscapes of subjects varying from crop fields to car lots to landfills. These results all possess their own patterns and intrigue, and yet they are all tied by a unique style. The quality of the pictures is apparent when viewing on Alan Taylor’s blog. His selections for “Human Landscapes” provide an excellent overview of this artist’s body of work. Proceed to the jump to view our picks from Alan Taylor’s blog and Jason Hawkes professional website.
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Daniel Craig on the Set of 007 – Photos by Greg Williams
Thanks to photographer Greg Williams, these amazing images of Daniel Craig were captured while behind the scenes of the last two Bond films. Williams’ portfolio includes the Internet sensation Esquire magazine June cover with Megan Fox, the Jude Law Dunhill campaign, and the ridiculously hot “Love Me Tender” short for for Agent Provocateur . With an understated mood from the black and white photos, this gallery of Daniel Craig congers up thoughts of stylish movie stars past, think Grant, McQueen, and Newman-esqe.
More images from the gallery after the jump.
Fish Sculptures by Ex-F1 Mechanic Alastair Gibson
Alastair Gibson, former BAR Honda Chief F1 Mechanic has combined his love for sculpture and car parts knowledge into wonderful works of art. Recently displayed at the Chelsea Art Fair, Gibson’s creations are basically familiar sea creatures that include sharks, piranhas, trouts, ans more. The sculptures are made from carbon fiber and real discarded Honda F1 car parts. The details of his fishes are really unique and amazing, even down to the teeth and fins, with some of the sculptures measuring up to two and a half meters long. Another creature also includes a hammerhead shark, which is one of the more impressive and more detailed works in the collection.
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Megalopolis Shanghai by Horst and Daniel Zielske
Photographers Horst & Daniel Zielske present the city of Shanghai between fiction and reality as ‘The City of Tomorrow’ in a series of pictures. In a long term project dating back to November 2002, the father-and-son duo have been documenting the Chinese city as an urban composition, a man-made architectural living space and environment of extraordinary gigantic dimensions. To create these brilliant images, they chose the architecture of the city’s streets as the focal point of their work.
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Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture at the Barbican
From Barbican: Le Corbusier (1887-1965), widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century, was also a celebrated thinker, writer and artist. His architecture and radical ideas for reinventing modern living, from private villas to large-scale social housing to utopian urban plans, still resonate today.
Le Corbusier — The Art of Architecture is the first major survey in London of the internationally renowned architect in more than 20 years. This timely reassessment presents a wealth of original models, interior settings, drawings, furniture, photographs, films, tapestries, paintings, sculpture and books by designed and written by the architect himself.
The exhibition charts how Le Corbusier’s work changed dramatically over the years from the regional vernacular of his early houses in Switzerland, to his iconic Purist villas and interiors of the 1920s, to the dynamic synthesis achieved between his art and architecture as exemplified by his chapel at Ronchamp (1950-55), and his civic buildings in Chandigarh, India (1952-64). Important works by his collaborators, such as Fernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé are also featured.
More info and images after the jump.
Herbert Weber Photography
Not much information can be found about photographer Herbert Weber. However, his works have been shown in various galleries around Europe and most notably Switzerland, where he is from. His photographs can be described as surreal interpretations of unique sculptures and mirroring backside portraits. There seems to be a recurring theme of blending nature and the everyday life of the common man in his works. Although most his works are in black and white, a few works are also in color. Check out more of his works at his site: Herbert Weber.
Check out more of Herbert Weber’s works after the jump.
The Sculptures of Christopher Conte
Norwegian sculptor Christopher Conte combines a knowledge of prosthetics and a passion for art in his biomechanical creations. Born in Bergen, Norway, he started drawing at the age of three, and shortly after moving to New York at six years of age, he began taking college art classes at Hofstra University following a recommendation from his first grade teacher. On receiving a scholarship to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the eleventh grade, he additionally took on a human anatomy course at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. After earning a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Pratt Institute, he entered the prosthetics field and began making artificial limbs for amputees in New York. Combining an abiding love for sculpture, medical science and biomechanics, the field enables Conte to apply his natural talents to help others in less fortunate situations, which he still does to this day. His work has been recently covered in Wired, Popular Science, Make Magazine, and used by The Discovery Channel and MTV Networks. A lot of Christopher’s works include insect sculptures and cyborg like creations using materials such as stainless steel, carbon steel, glass-filled nylon, aluminum, brass, and more.
See more of Christopher’s creations after the jump.
Ferrari Photos by Neil Bridge
London-based photographer Neil Bridge has given us an intimate look into all things Ferrari in his most recent work. Bridge prides himself on his ability to capture the unseen aspects of design and engineering and his time spent with Ferrari S.p.A. is certainly no exception. His collection, in addition to being visually stimulating, takes us behind the scenes of arguably the greatest automaker of all time. The finished product allows us to see Ferrari from every angle, from the beginning to the finished product and needless to say his work has the ability to draw us in to the point where we can almost smell that final coat of red paint on the F430.
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Trash House by Randy Palumbo from New York Times
Randy Palumbo is part of a recent wave of artists setting up homes in the California desert. Purchased in 2007, he established a specific set of rules for his recruits in the renovation of this tiny rock cabin and 2 1/2 acre property – do not use anything new. This design concept is a bit removed from the projects he works on out of his Manhattan-based contracting company, 3-D Laboratory. In this new era of “sustainability” and “green” construction, there are numerous products and technologies out on the market that cost an exorbitant amount of money. Mr. Palumbo asks,”what could be greener than building out of trash?”
The audio slideshow accompanying the article at NYTimes, takes readers on a tour of the multiple corridors that make up this fascinating and unique home. A bedroom door is made from old mattress springs covered with scraps of metal. Windows are made from recycled wood and furniture is obtained from yard sales and trash. Living room furniture and the upholstery fabric was purchased off of Ebay. Mortar walls is inset with various glass bottles and plates. A bathroom ceiling is made from old ammunition cases.
The complete article can be found at NYTimes. Images from the audio slideshow can be viewed after the jump.
