December 2011
32 posts
Sophie Calle, Take Care of Yourself, 2007 Venice...
The most impressive work at the 52nd Venice Biennale was, in my opinion, Sophie Calle’s Take Care of Yourself which filled the French Pavilion. This is a complex work that took a long time to view (VIDEO CLIP 1). At first it was confusing because it was so vast but gradually one became aware that behind the initial, overwhelming complexity there lay an elegant simplicity. The entire...
Emily Fox: Princess Religion Disney and women's...
Emily Fox: Princess Religion Disney and women’s identity By Rachel Piper
Photo by Rachel Piper // Emily Fox
Posted // December 7,2011 -
Artist Emily Fox (EmilyFoxArt.com) grew up in Washington state and came to Utah to attend Brigham Young University, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking and drawing. She currently works for the Salt Lake Art Center, driving...
After the Fire
Japanese photographer’s retrospective reveals an artist reborn in the wake of destruction , by Leslie Camhi
A nuclear test woke the legendary Godzilla, who rose from his long sleep beneath the Pacific to destroy Tokyo in a Japanese film made just nine years after atomic blasts shook Nagasaki and Hiroshinma. In Japan at that time, the war’s aftershocks could be felt in ways...
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Testing Bulletproof Vest, 1923
Testing Bulletproof Vest, 1923
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All images from the Library of Congress
‘Jump’, 1959, by Philippe Halsman
Marilyn Monroe
Aldous Huxley
Audrey Hepburn
Brigitte Bardot
Chimpanzee
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
Diana Dors
Eva Marie Saint
Grace Kelly
Murray Kempton
Richard Nixon
Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sophia Loren
Weegee
Duke & Dutchess of Windsor
New York, 1940, Stanley Kubrick
New York, 1940s, by Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick shot a number of striking black and white images in 1940s New York City while he was a teenager. He often shot in secret, his camera slyly concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it — with a dark beauty similar to his films Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. Now musuems are making prints from...
