Yesterday, NPR.org’s picture show blog featured the work of Kate Stone. I knew Kate at Bard, but had missed her thesis show; boy, am I grateful to NPR for cluing me in to what I’d missed.
In her most recent work, Kate explores a space with her camera, prints the photos, reconstructs the space in three dimensions, and then re-photographs the scene. In At The Seams, Kate disassembles and reassembles strangers’ houses, leaving doors poking out of the floor and fans reproducing across empty rooms. In Wunderkammer (which translates to ‘cabinet of curiosities’), the stuffed animals at a museum seem to step right out of their displays. (more…)
Last night, my hours of mindless surfing through Flickr paid off.
Here is a collection of photographs, shot on the streets of Paris in 1962, prominently featuring the legendary restaurant Les Halles. The color and saturation of these photos are unreal (which, wouldn’t you know, renders them extremely real and lifelike). In all likelihood, the photographer, Tom Palumbo, shot them on Kodachrome, which is being discontinued by Kodak this year.
I don’t know about you, but there’s something about medium format film that captures an essence that digital can’t touch. (Yes, I know: the RED and Canon MARK IV are amazing. But still I miss the delay of dropping off your roll of film, waiting for it to be developed, and that sublime moment of discovery when you see what you’ve captured this time.)
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