Beautiful images from the photography blog Life is Beautiful, which you might have delighted in already if you followed me on Twitter @linnea_west.
I’m not saying twitter is the best or only way to learn things; I’m just saying you should check out the dynamic spread of awesome information. I’ve totally been sucked in.
But with peaches like that, how can you resist biting in?
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This new series of photographs by Uta Barth on view at the Tanya Bonakdar gallery is a contemplative, lovely, very contemporary body of work. I love how there is a sense of process suggested by the similar subject over time and season. Initially, I didn’t connect these large, color works as the product of the same artist who created the small, black and white photos in the back room, which seemed more concerned with negative space than lyricism. Yet Barth created both, albeit 30 years apart. Do I like them both? Yes of course. If I had to choose a faovorite however, the group of small black and white photographs Every Day, below, carries the day with me…by far! Click on the image to enlarge it and get a sense of the playful capture of the everyday and the beautifully framed shots.
Albert CamusSome people look exactly like you would imagine them to based on their work. With others, putting a face to a name gives you a rather different insight into who they are (or at least how they look). Cartier-Bresson’s portraits of a range of artists, writers, and other creators are perceptive and honest. Each one appears to be that iconic shot you forever associate with the name.
Truman Capote
Marcel Duchamp
Henri Matisse
Alexander Calder
Colette with Her Companion Pauline