A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
Queensboro Bridge, exposures made for experiment, February 9, 1910.
From New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac at the Museum of the City of New York until October 28th. Via Boing Boing.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Luther Gerlach’s Los Angeles
• The Bradbury Building: Looking Backward from the Future
• Karel Plicka’s views of Prague
• Downtown LA by Ansel Adams
South London Dreaming by Tom Phillips (2007).
Tom Phillips’ ongoing art project, 20 Sites n Years, is now presented on his site with a facility which allows the viewing of all the photos for each location. (And if you haven’t come across the project before, the specifications are here.) Nice being able to step through the photos year by year especially if you don’t have a copy of Phillips’ Works and Texts. In an earlier description of the project he speculates on its possible manifestations in the future since the plan is that it be continued indefinitely after its creator’s death. This small web manifestation is one development that wouldn’t have been anticipated in 1973. Other possibilities, such as the likelihood of South London being eventually submerged by a rising Thames, were fanciful in the Seventies but no longer seem so remote.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Tom Phillips blog
• 20 Sites n Years by Tom Phillips
The Flandrin pose returns in a photograph for the Adonis series by Brent Dundore. Flandrin was striving for a Classical simplicity in his original painting and the quasi-Classical seat in this picture seems to be doing the same. This might easily become a line drawing like those produced by John Flaxman, a contemporary of Flandrin’s whose work was inspired by Classical sources.
“Athena in the form of Penelope’s sister tells the queen of the return of her son Telemachus” from illustrations for The Odyssey by John Flaxman (1810).
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive
The Crystal Gazer (or The Magic Crystal, 1904).
The photographs of Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) seem to be popular with art directors; the picture above was used on the sleeve of the Spangle Maker EP by the Cocteau Twins in 1984 and her Silhouette of a Woman / A Maiden at Prayer (1899) appeared on the cover of the Nonesuch recording of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony no. 3 in 1991.
The Spangle Maker by The Cocteau Twins (design by 23 Envelope).
• Gertrude Käsebier at the Art of the Photogravure
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Karl Blossfeldt
• The Dawn of the Autochrome
• Fred Holland Day
• The Door in the Wall
• Edward Steichen
• Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
Ian with headphone.
Photographs by Brandon Herman at the David Gallery, Culver City, CA. The exhibition runs from September 8th–October 13th, 2007.
In BrandonHermanLand the subjects are absorbed in their own intensely private worlds, whether it be cleaning the pool, contemplating a baseball in bed, or skateboarding nude at night. Herman’s talent as a photographer lies in managing to get his subjects to bare their souls as well as their bodies to the viewer.
Via Towleroad.
Untitled (Patrick swimming hole) (2006).