Monday, January 31, 2011
guest blogger • jo-ey tang
a big welcome to this week's guest blogger, artist jo-ey tang. more of his work here.
[jo-ey tang. installation view from UCLA new wight biennial 2010: another romance. task for the exhibition: after the opening night, all objects moved forward by 5 inches, out of the spotlight. materials: note found in palermo viejo, buenos aires, broken cement plant plate, woven belt, aluminum tile, standing lamp, bamboo window shade, plastic flowers, chrome stand, black and white infrared gelatin silver print, deodorizing candle in glass jar, fire, soot, broken custom-made mirror, window screen, wine-stained table runner, folding stool, c-print.]
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Jiajia Zhang
'I found photographs' – Jiajia Zhang. See more of her works here
What do you do? Photographer
Where did you find these pictures and why did you keep them?
I found them in a coat I bought from a flea market. I kept them because I like them in my pocket. As a series, they give a nice sense of vertigo, dreamscapes and Versailles.
What do you do? Photographer
Where did you find these pictures and why did you keep them?
I found them in a coat I bought from a flea market. I kept them because I like them in my pocket. As a series, they give a nice sense of vertigo, dreamscapes and Versailles.
Matilde Soligno
Matilde, what do you do? I am a photographer
Where did you find these pictures and why did you keep them?
I found these pictures in a few different flea markets in Italy, where I live. I chose them for the sort of clashing feelings of fragility and intimacy they emanate. I keep one of them in my organizer (agenda), and the other ones are spread on my walls and shelves, so I can see them. I also included one of them in a series I shot exploring and articulating upon the imagery of found photographs: the name of the series is indeed Il Diario Ritrovato (The Finding of a Journal).
Where did you find these pictures and why did you keep them?
I found these pictures in a few different flea markets in Italy, where I live. I chose them for the sort of clashing feelings of fragility and intimacy they emanate. I keep one of them in my organizer (agenda), and the other ones are spread on my walls and shelves, so I can see them. I also included one of them in a series I shot exploring and articulating upon the imagery of found photographs: the name of the series is indeed Il Diario Ritrovato (The Finding of a Journal).
Georg Gatsas
'I found photographs' – Georg Gatsas. See More of his work here
What do you do?
I am an artist and work mostly with the medium photography. I try to be as open, aware and curious as possible of what's going on in this world.
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
I found these pictures in the basement of my grandmother's house, right after she died in March 2009. This is just a small selection of about 400 pictures, all packed in a small box. They were shot between 1946 and 1947, in the countryside of Switzerland. I think they were shot by a family member of mine as they were all shot around the village deli that my grandmother was running. I think they look quite amazing since they are shot totally different than regular pictures people took around that time. I want to compile a book with a selection of 80 pictures. The series is called "Grandmother's Box", a dedication to her. I think the book with these pictures are important as they tell a different story from the rural Swiss countryside in the 40ies. I let them scan and took the brown color out. They look pretty fresh now.
These three pictures were part of the group exhibition "What Sticks" at the BolteLang gallery in Zurich, with Vanessa Billy and Daniel Gustav Cramer. See more information here
Roderick Kiracofe
'I found photographs' - Roderick Kiracofe. See more hereHello Ann and Jia Jia,
My friend Jason Hanasik passed along your fascinating call for submissions. I have been thoroughly enjoying the last few posts on iheartphotograph and hope my collection isn't too late.
Best,
Roderick
What do you do?
I am a conceptual artist and collector.
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
I found these pictures on Ebay and through private dealers. I just love them. I am constantly fascinated by the untold stories inherently embedded in vernacular images.
My partner had a tradition in his family that he introduced me to at the very beginning of our meeting. The tradition went, one should say the words “rabbit, rabbit” immediately after waking up on the first day of each month. It was meant to bring good luck to you during the coming month. Both of us were also born in the year of the rabbit and I have since found myself fascinated by rabbit images and objects.
This selection of my found photographs mixes that tradition/interest with some of the more sweet and curious images of men that I have also been collecting throughout the years.
Matthew Monteith
'I found photographs' – Matthew Monteith. See more here
Matthew Monteith was born in Howell, Michigan in 1974. He studied at the International Center of Photography before earning an MFA from the Yale School of Art. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Prague and was awarded a residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in New York City. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Paris, Arles, Cherbourg, and Kyoto as well as group exhibitions in New York City, Miami, and Rennes.
Monteith lives in New York City and currently a teaches at the Yale University.
Dear Jiajia,
Jirka tells me that you are curating found images together with Ann Woo for I Heart Photograph. I have so many but only these scanned from the Czech Republic. Found photographs from the time between and before the wars in the Czech Republic were a big influence on the structure of my work that became "Czech Eden" Aperture 2007. Here are a few that closely relate that I have scanned. If you are familiar with the book
I am sure you can see the connections.
Best,
Matthew
I went to Matthew's 'how to work efficiently in the color darkroom and why' class at ICP in 2008 and was hooked with the medium since then.
I remembered his first comment for me was, 'Ann...what are you doing???'
To this day, I still didn't get to thank him properly...
Matthew, thank you very much, your color printing tips were brilliant!
Do you have any more of those??
Matthew Monteith was born in Howell, Michigan in 1974. He studied at the International Center of Photography before earning an MFA from the Yale School of Art. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Prague and was awarded a residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in New York City. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Paris, Arles, Cherbourg, and Kyoto as well as group exhibitions in New York City, Miami, and Rennes.
Monteith lives in New York City and currently a teaches at the Yale University.
Dear Jiajia,
Jirka tells me that you are curating found images together with Ann Woo for I Heart Photograph. I have so many but only these scanned from the Czech Republic. Found photographs from the time between and before the wars in the Czech Republic were a big influence on the structure of my work that became "Czech Eden" Aperture 2007. Here are a few that closely relate that I have scanned. If you are familiar with the book
I am sure you can see the connections.
Best,
Matthew
I went to Matthew's 'how to work efficiently in the color darkroom and why' class at ICP in 2008 and was hooked with the medium since then.
I remembered his first comment for me was, 'Ann...what are you doing???'
To this day, I still didn't get to thank him properly...
Matthew, thank you very much, your color printing tips were brilliant!
Do you have any more of those??
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Jiri Makovec
What do you do?
I am a photographer
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
I found the skater-pictures at my friend Kuba's house. He took them with his camera when we were both 14, 1991 in czechoslovakia. I keep them because they remind me of a certain state of mind I was in at that time. The country was just going through some major changes and so was I. After the velvet revolution things from the west became accessible. That's when I changed from rollerskating to skateboarding. Also, I bought the shirt with the slogan: life's a beach.
Bryan Lear
What do you do?
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
I found them at a thrift store in Chicago. There are about 35 photographs total. I have an interest in archives & archiving, so I was instantly drawn to the group. Their familiarity, repetition & strangeness is what keeps me coming back them.
Henrik Strömberg
' I found photograph' by Henrik Strömberg. See more of his work here.
What do you do?
I am an artist
Where did you find the picture and why do you keep it?
I found the negative of this image at the site of a demolished building in Berlin - the negative was ripped in 3 parts and nearly totally disintegrated.. I put the pieces together to form a complete 35mm negative - still not able to make out what was depicted in the frame, I scanned it and made prints from which an image appeared; The image depicts, what I imagine to be, one of the rooms from the now demolished house. The piece can also be seen on my website from the exhibition: CIRKULATIONSCENTRALEN: MALMÖ, SWEDEN. It is called ' the room '
Friday, January 28, 2011
Adam Good and Steve Halo
' i found photographs' by Adam Good and Steve Halo. See more of Adam's work here and Steve's work here
Adam, what do you do?
I am an interdisciplinary artist and creative strategist.
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
I have found these at various thrift and antique shops. Each photo reminds me of a person
I know or have known; I imagine that they are childhood “self-portraits.” I
started this collection because each image reminded me so strongly of my
memory of a particular childhood friend, and I feel the same sense of
nostalgia and loss as I do when looking at actual photographs of my old
friends. I keep collecting them because I am interested in how we create and
project a “self” onto the people who move in and out of our lives, and in
how our memories influence what we see.
I know or have known; I imagine that they are childhood “self-portraits.” I
started this collection because each image reminded me so strongly of my
memory of a particular childhood friend, and I feel the same sense of
nostalgia and loss as I do when looking at actual photographs of my old
friends. I keep collecting them because I am interested in how we create and
project a “self” onto the people who move in and out of our lives, and in
how our memories influence what we see.
Steve, what do you do?
I write, take pics and will do anything to get
by. Right now helping my roomate on stuff for her necktie line.
by. Right now helping my roomate on stuff for her necktie line.
Where did
you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
I found them in my parents
basement. These pictures are precious to me, as they are my family. My aunt
(in the picture) became a model for Giorgio perfume. She is still pretty
now, and almost 70.
basement. These pictures are precious to me, as they are my family. My aunt
(in the picture) became a model for Giorgio perfume. She is still pretty
now, and almost 70.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Victor Sira
' found photographs' - Victor Sira. See more of his work here
What do you do?
Victor Sira is a Venezuela-born artist/photographer whose work has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He curated the show Photography Book Dummies at the School of International Center of Photography. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, including the Rencontres d’Arles 2005 and the show De l’Europe in Luxemburg 2007. Sira is on the faculty at the ICP-Bard MFA Advanced Photographic Studies Program in New York, where he teaches the course The Book: Imaginary Studio, A Non Stop Process and he is a member of ABC Artists' Books Cooperative.
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
Like millions of others who have emigrated far from home, the memories of each person, each landscape, each room we have from our homeland is fading, becoming invisible and forgotten. Not only our memories are growing paler and paler, but also the places themselves are changing as the people who lived there die off, or move away. For many years I have been returning regularly to Venezuela in search of these faces and landscape, which I remember, from childhood using old family photographs to give the past back its lost body collecting and arranging them in photography books.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Ruth Van Beek
What do you do? Artist
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
These 3 pictures i found on advertisement boards in local supermarkets in Zaandam.
This was the pre-ebay era, when people tried to sell each other stuff via
real photography and handwritten adverts. I have a big collection of these photographs, mostly furniture. I found these pictures on seperate occasions, in different supermarkets.I really like pictures of cars.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
'found fisherman photographs' by shane lavalette
What do you do?
Photographer: www.shanelavalette.com
Publisher/Editor, Lay Flat: www.layflat.org
Publisher/Editor, Lay Flat: www.layflat.org
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
I found these images last Winter inside of a mangled car at a junkyard in Vermont. The car was filled with this man's possessions, which included dozens of Polaroids of himself holding up various fish that he had caught. Most of the photos have writing that indicates the date, location as well as the size and weight of the fish. Though they exude a certain feeling of loneliness, there's also sense of beauty and pride.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Found pictures - by Ann Woo
What do you do?
I am a photographer
Where did you find these pictures and why do you keep them?
My very good friend Evelyn and I bought them from a junk
shop in Hong Kong long time ago. I don't know why I have kept them. I also
wonder why.
shop in Hong Kong long time ago. I don't know why I have kept them. I also
wonder why.
guest blogger • ann woo + jiajia zhang
artists ann woo and jiajia zhang team up to bring you a week's worth of posts. they are calling their contribution 'i found photographs'. as they explain: "we are interested to see what photographs people have found/collected/loved/kept in REAL LIFE - besides what’s already on the internet. photographs which have been lying around on people’s tables, shelves, bottoms of drawers, which they have once picked up from the street, flea market, grandparent’s home, magazines, etc." take a look at ann's work here and jiajia's here.
[top: ann woo. studio. bottom: jiajia zhang. le hemwe.]
Sunday, January 23, 2011
the art of memory
trains in cinema, part 8
two recent posts from the excellent blog, the art of memory.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
sergio vega
[all sergio vega. top to bottom: alice's backyard. across the corpus callosum (installation view). shanty nucleus after derrida 2 (installation view).]
Friday, January 21, 2011
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