Saturday, March 26, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

#15 via What You See
a book of snapshots from the collection of Luciano Rigolini
published by Lars Muller

Rigolini is interested above all in snapshots in which, consciously or unconsciously, form and structure move into the foreground, so that the specific pictorial content becomes secondary. In his cleverly arranged sequences, the photographs can no longer be read merely as reproductions of reality. They turn out to be artifacts that construct reality.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

from the past exhibit "America and the Tintype"
of which there is a fine book available (on sale)...

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Ephemeral Camera

#13 via A Sound Awareness

from the book "The Haunted Air" - a collection of anonymous photographs from Ossian Brown and published by Jonathan Cape. As far as I know, only available from the U.K. - Thematic books of vintage vernacular photographs are rarely this well done and the breadth of strangeness contained in this extraordinary collection of costumed Halloween spirits displays the tradition wonderfully.