Photos of Skulls – inspired by Andreas Feininger
As a teenager I lived in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. A couple of blocks from my house was King Street, the main east-west corridor through the heart of downtown. In my neck of the woods was what the city fathers dubbed…
A Brief History of John Baldessari
John Baldessari is pretty epic, a towering figure in art (literally and figuratively) . Conceptual art is pretty funny to me; I suspect he also has a sense of humour about it, too. Anyhow, Baldessari has been around for long…
The City Makes its Own Collage
I’m a big fan of collage in its many forms. By its many forms, I mean traditional collage where people cut things out and past them back together using paper media or manipulating digital images, or even (as in this…
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer whose work documents the impact of industry on the environment. Most of his work is quite large, high resolution prints taken with a large-format camera that capture bleak but visually rich vistas of industrial…
Michael Kenna – Power Stations
Michael Kenna is a photographer originally from the UK but living in the US since the 80s. He’s done a pile of work, but I found a series of rather haunting photos of what look like nuclear reactor silos (actually…
Ian Rogers – Photos of Abandoned Places
A couple of days ago I wrote about the photographer Robert Polidori, and mentioned that to some extent his work resonates with me because I also take photos of abandoned places. I first started taking photos in abandoned places in…
Robert Polidori
Robert Polidori is an American photographer born in Montreal, Canada, who lives between Paris and New York. He’s been a staff photographer for the New Yorker for more than a decade, and has won a heckload of awards including a…
Lori Nix
Lori Nix is a NYC-based photographer. To digress briefly, a few days ago I wrote about Ray Caesar: For those of you who haven’t worked with 3D software, imagine being a highly skilled painter who only paints on sculptures that…
Sweet Montreal Graf
I’ll be honest with you, I’ve had a pretty busy day. I didn’t get a chance to write about any of the artists or ideas I’ve been rolling around my chalky headbone over the weekend, but it’s all good; I…
Is Instagram Conceptual Art?
So, I was talking with a friend today about conceptual art and it got me to thinking. Before I go on at great length, it’s worthwhile to briefly describe what conceptual art is. In 1967, Sol Lewitt, one of the original great…
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