László Moholy-Nagy
Pictograms & The New Vision

Born July 20th, 1895, László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian photographer and painter. Laszlo was also a proffesor at the Bauhaus, and it was here that he developed a keen interest in photography, particularly the Surrealist nature of it - “the New Vision” was a term coinded by Laszlo to describe the way in which photography could create a new way of viewing the physical world that was completely absent to the the human eye.

 Light Play

Light Play - Film Still

 

The Art of Light

 

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Sarah Charlesworth

photographer

"Stills are black and white enlargements made from newspaper photos of people in mid-air. The images show people jumping from burning buildings in an attempt to save their lives, as well as individuals who are trying to commit suicide. Neither the intention nor the outcome of the jump is apparent".

check out her website; she died last week.

Nobuyoshi Araki
photographer

Araki used old polaroid film and photographed the early bloom of the cherry blossom trees..

RINKO KAWAUCHI
Photographer

Untitled work from the series Illuminance 

Untitled, Illuminance series

Firework

Elliot Erwitt
Photographer

Self Portrait

North Carolina, 1950

He published a book titled "Elliot Erwitts dogs" it's a good read.

   You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus:

One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep

and found all my masks were stolen, - the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives,

- I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting,"thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves."

    Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.

    And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman."

I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. 

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks."

    Thus I became a madman.

    And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

    But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.

Kahlil Gibran

New York, 2012 - taken on my Leica with 400 TX. 

Current Work 

So I am working on scanning some films. It is taking a while - they go way back to Mexico in early December 2012.

window and chair, tornado aftermath, Australia 2013

Guanajuato from a mountain, 2013

this particular picture came from the inspiration of Javier Servant after he took a picture with a fuji polaroid and it looked incredible. The small JPEG does not do it justice, sorry for that! These and many more will be up on my website soon!

RICHARD MISRACH
Photographer

Outdoor Dinning

Bomb Crater and Destroyed Convoy, Bravo 20 Bombing Range, Nevada 1986

Monolake 2, California, 1999

Swamp and Pipeline, Geismar, Louisianna

ALBERT KAHN
Philanthropist

In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome process, the world's first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace and understanding.

Qing Dynasty

Mongolia

Galway

Urban Factory