Tiny White Squares

December 31, 2011

"all other images," frieze's piece on luigi ghirri and his work from the december 2011 issue.

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November 7, 2011

the above is photographer albert von schrenck-notzing's image of a medium's "emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth." the image was made in 1913. i saw the picture this weekend while looking through the perfect medium: photography and the occult. the book is a cataloge from the show of the same name held at the metropolitan museum of art in 2005.

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July 15, 2011

just a little pre-caturday love on the blog.

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this week has been all prep for my departure from nyc for the next month and not nearly enough time in the studio making. i was able to get to the studio for the afternoon yesterday but focused most of my time there writing. i'm researching for a paper on artists who create during, or in response to, personal illness. i'm curious about what that type of work looks like, or if it 'looks like' at all.

there was one photographer i came across in my research whose work surprised and, well, kind of shocked me. mary eleanor browning in the early 1950s photographed her own hysterectomy. while doctors operated on her body, browning photographed the surgery through a mirror placed above the operating table. madness.

an abridged version of the orginal essay by peter palmquist can be found online in the archives of women in photography as well as a few of browning's images.

image via women in photography.

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April 4, 2011

above are a small selection of images from the sva library's reference image files. the imagery i was searching for wasnt available in the files, but these small gems were.

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November 25, 2010

Leap into the Void, 1960
Yves Klein
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