“I preferred the limited task of dealing only with the person himself, away from the accidentals of his daily life, simply in his own clothes and adornments, isolated in my studio. From himself alone I would distill the image I wanted , and the cold light of day would put it onto the film” Irving Penn
Latest Entries
FRITZ HAEG
The Animal Estates Snag Tower is a prototype for a collective model home designed to accommodate six animal clients that would otherwise live in a snag, or standing dead tree, in the park. This snag tower, commissioned for Presidio Habitats by the FOR-SITE Foundation, is based on a prototype that artist Fritz Haeg designed in 2008 for Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
To learn more about the Presidio Habitats Project, go HERE
For the Record: Gilda Davidian and Sidonie Loiseleux
Click HERE to read Week 5 of From Here to There’s For the Record interviews with Gilda Davidian and Sidonie Loiseleux.
TONIGHT, 8 PM
An evening with John Waters: On Neurotic Happiness
in conversation with actress and author, Carrie Fisher
get your tickets HERE and see you tonight at the Aratani/Japanese American Theatre
Call for Submissions: MAIL ART (Armory Center)
International Mail Art Exhibit: In Honor and Memory of Judith A. Hoffberg
Armory Center: 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, California
June 27– August 22, 2010
Submissions Due: June 11th
Opening: Saturday, June 26th, 7-9pm
To participate in the exhibition, mail art submissions must be received by June 11, 2010 by postal mail or email. All art sent through the mail needs to be sent unwrapped, unless the envelope/wrapping is part of the piece.
Find out more HERE.
All submissions received by the due date will be included in the exhibition. All mail art included in the exhibition will be donated to the Judith A. Hoffberg Archive at the Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with the permission of the artist.
OCEAN FLOWERS
“Photographs of British Algae (Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins Cyanotypes of British Algae) is a landmark in the histories both of photography and of publishing: the first photographic work by a woman, and the first book produced entirely by photographic means. Instantly recognizable today as the blueprint process, the cyanotypes lend themselves beautifully to illustrate objects found in the sea. The Library’s copy ofBritish Algae originally belonged to Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), inventor of the blueprint process, among his many other photographic as well as scientific advances.” See more at the NYPL Digital Gallery, HERE
LUISA LAMBRI
Luisa Lambri: Being There
February 27th – June 13th
The Hammer Museum: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
(Image: Untitled, Sheats-Goldstein House, #17, 2007)
