A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
Maiden-hair fern.
Photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932). More here.
Tendrils of a pumpkin.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Dawn of the Autochrome
• Fred Holland Day
• The Door in the Wall
• Edward Steichen
• Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
Postopolis: Art and Architecture
Event details and live blog at City of Sound.
Tours de Revolutions by Peter Eudenbach (2007).
Built to commemorate the French Revolution, the Eiffel Tower inspired Ferris to create a revolving wrought iron marvel to surpass it. Twenty years later Duchamp’s love of Ferris Wheels led to the first readymade and caused a revolution in art. Tours de Revolution is a Ferris wheel made of Eiffel towers, bringing this famous landmark full circle.
And speaking of Gustave Eiffel’s monument, Google Maps now has very clear views of central Paris. That snaking line of people is the queue to use one of the lifts.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• City of Light
• Paris V: Details
• Enormous structures II: Tatlin’s Tower
Young couple with motor car, c.1910. Photographer unknown.
An exhibition of extraordinary Edwardian colour photographs opens today at the National Media Museum, London Bradford.
This exhibition will open on the 25th May. Marking one hundred years of the first practical process for colour photography—the Autochrome, invented by the Lumiere brothers—the National Media Museum presents a major summer show on what has been described as “perhaps the most beautiful of all the photographic processes”.
Today, we take colour photography for granted. Yet, for many years colour photographs remained an elusive dream. One hundred years ago, the dream became a reality when the first fully practical method of colour photography appeared—the Autochrome process.
The Dawn of Colour celebrates centenary of the Autochrome and the birth of colour photography. It reveals the Edwardian world as you have probably never seen it before—in full, vibrant colour. The past isn’t always in black and white.
The photographer’s daughter Christina at Lulworth cove,
Dorset in 1913 by Mervyn O’Gorman.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Fred Holland Day
• The Door in the Wall
• Edward Steichen
• Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
left: Mikel; right: Matt.
Toxicboy aka Mikel from Montreal, is a photographer as stunningly gorgeous as many of his models, so his “self-centred self portraits” are entirely justified, for this viewer at least. He enhances some of his pictures with subtle and artful digital manipulation, as with the photo above showing three incarnations of the same model, Matt. The androgynous pictures in his “Maiden to Man” series merge gender in a way that few photographers—gay or straight—seem willing to explore, despite the possibilities that Photoshop suggests. The possibilities suggested by three identical boys in the same bed is something we can only dream about.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
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• Czanara’s Hermaphrodite Angel