Archives for the ‘nostalgia’ Category

Odette England

Odette England Work from Attentional Landscapes. “The Ishihara Colour Test is the most common clinical test for colour blindness in humans. But, like mirages and memories, the circles of randomised dots are just optical phenomena. In this series, Odette England undertakes quasi-scientific experiments in manipulating the intended meaning and function of family photographs. Selectively and […]

Alex Prager

Alex Prager Work from The Big Valley.  There is a peculiar Cindy Sherman meets Alfred Hitchcock quality that brought me to explore this work further, and I am not surprised at all to find that I am not the only one to have thought along those lines. Collection of reviews here. “Prager photographs her female […]

Ernie Button

Ernie Button Work from Back & Forth and Playing in the Shadows of Space. I have been reading quite a bit about space exploration this week, and it is nice to see some work that is a nice glimpse of the future, as seen from the past.  ____________________________ On the surface, the thought of photographing […]

Cory Arcangel

Cory Arcangel Works from Super Mario Clouds, Super Mario Movie, F1 Racer Mod, and Colors (which he gives a step by step on how to make your very own). Even his splash page is art. HUGE BONUS: You can the download the ROM of Arcangel’s video game modification of the classic Space Invaders, Space Invader […]

Matthew Gamber

Matthew Gamber  Work from This is (still) the Golden Age “As one of the first photographic methods, the photogram was empirically valued for its ability to trace an object by direct contact. To view a photogram is to witness the recent absence of an object that had touched the paper. The need to experience that […]

Jane Tam

  Jane Tam Work from the series Can I Come Home With You and To the fun House. Thanks to The Exposure Project (which is crazy awesome by the way) for bringing her work to my attention.