Thursday, October 21, 2010

Tradition and Modernity in flux: Visual Binaries in Contemporary Iranian Photography {A series of Dissertation Images}

Shadi Ghadirian, Qajar Series 

Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid 

Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid 


Shadi Ghadirian, Qajar Series 

Shadi Ghadirian, Qajar Series 

Shadi Ghadirian, Qajar Series




Houra Yaghoubi, Who is my generation?

Houra Yaghoubi, Who is my generation?

Katayoun Karami , The Other side 

Katayoun Karami, The other side

Shadi Ghadirian, Like Everyday Series

Shirin Neshat, Fervor

Shirin Neshat, Fervor

Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah 

Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah 

Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah 

Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah

Shirin Neshat, Fervor

Shirin Neshat, Fervor 

Shirin Neshat, The Last Word 

Shirin Neshat, The Last Word 

Roya Falahi 

Roya Falahi 

Roya Falahi


Houra Yagoubi, Who is my generation?

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Adobe's new virtual museum

I'm not sure how I feel about this one yet, but check it out. if anything its kind of cool.


museum

article

Sharon Core, 2007



represented by Yancy Richardson Gallery
she photographs the food that she grows in her own garden in upstate NY. Her show is called "Early American" and she says that her main inspiration for these photographs come from the 19th century painter Raphaelle Peale. On show at the gallery at Hermes in New York until December!

interview here: Sharon Core Interview

Friday, October 1, 2010

Gohar Dashti



titled, Today's Life and War 
Contemporary Iranian Photographer, lives and works in Iran 
Dashti shows a multitude of photographs in this series that as a whole depict the complex relationship between the daily experiences and the internal psychic experiences of a young Iranian couple. She is exploring the persistence of trauma that is ever present in post War Iran. Instead of suggesting that the couple lives in a war zone, Dashti uses battlefield imagery imposing onto images of the domestic environment to heighten the representation of the trauma that results from the violence of war. It shows a unique perspective, one often disregarded in the media imagery that constructs many of our misinterpretations about contemporary Iran. 

Hanna Liden.....images of blown out candles



i love the simplicity in these, when i first saw them they were small and i thought they were a weird digital abstraction, once i made them bigger i realised what they were, but that initial reaction still holds, except for the weird digital part....

peter hujar, 1985