Never Wilting Flower Project

work by Never Wilting Flower Project, a collaboration between Kathryn Hillier and Rebecca Veit. See more here.

Martina Hoogland Ivanow

work by Martina Hoogland Ivanow from Satellite, 2010. See more here.

monday

yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah

Y5 is an independent and anonymous forum to immediately upload cellphone images to. The only censorship is the removal of non-cellphone images as determined by the site's administrator and founder, Tyler Healy.

see the images here

To submit, email content from your cellular device to yeah[at]yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah.com

[all .jpgs, anonymous, 2010-2011]

guest blogger • robert kulisek

hello to this week's guest blogger, artist robert kulisek. see more of his work here.

[robert kulisek. untitled (shark) from the series more sail trim.]

spxChrome

Stock photography by spxChrome. See more here.

Manager from the 70's, File #341522:

Keywords: Image Created 1970s, Office, Photograph, 1970, Retro Revival, White Collar Worker, People, Nerd, Old, Old-fashioned, 1940-1980 Retro-Styled Imagery, 1970s Style, Photography, Blank, Blank Expression, Contract, Dirty, Antique, Isolated, Necktie, Occupation, Manager, Human Face, Writing, White, Organization, Foreman, Labor Union, Leadership, Sitting, Cut Out, Caucasian

Retro Advertisement, File #3134275:

Keywords: Paper, Textured, Retro Revival, Old, Backgrounds, Poster, Advertisement, Dirty, 1960s Style, Sign, Folded, Crumpled, Wrinkled, Blank, Multi Colored, Run-Down, Yellow, Aging Process, Empty, Weathered, Crease, Isolated, Rotting

Management Crew from the 70's, File #292494:

Keywords: Image Created 1970s, Retro Revival, Office, Businessman, 1940-1980 Retro-Styled Imagery, Old, Photograph, 1970s Style, Old-fashioned, Photography, Frame, Manager, People, Occupation, Team, 70s, Organized Group, Friendship, Blank, Necktie, Organization, Blank Expression, Leadership, Business Person, Crew, Isolated, Office Worker, Antique, Single Object, Four People, Dirty, Cut Out, Foreman, Labor Union, Shirt, Teamwork, Aging Process, brigade, Human Face, Caucasian, Human Age

Iconogenic

Stock photographs by Iconogenic. See more here.

Manicure, File #1597892:

Keywords: Human Hand, Fingernail, Women, Manicure, Spa Treatment, Health Spa, Beauty, Beautiful, Female, Naked, Human Finger, Human Skin, Glamour, Elegance, Blue, french manicure, Body Care, Vertical, Young Adult, iconmariananna, Human Age

Witch, File #3885137:

Keywords: Cape, Witch, Hood, Women, Demon, Black, Spooky, Halloween, Goth Style, Fantasy, Coat, Horror, Female, Isolated, Black Hair, White, Studio Shot, Long Hair, Color Image, Brown Hair, Caucasian

Squeeze It, File #1595511:

Keywords: Lemon, Crowded, Women, Human Hand, Fruit, Food, Beauty, Fingernail, Juice, Blue, Wet, Female, Sparse, iconmariananna, Condensation, Care, Cleaning, Human Skin, Close-up, Macro, Yellow, Bright, Letter C, Concepts

Michael Bodmann

Stock photography by Michael Bodmann. See more here.

cloud mirror windows, File #10139316:

Keywords: Business, Abstract, Office, Black And White, Milan, Rope, Brick, House, Cloud, Mirrored Pattern, Window, Brightly Lit, Bright, Nobody, Horizontal, Building Exterior, Construction, Built Structure, Reflection, Office Building, Risk, Glass, Organization, Working, Wall, Manual Worker, Architecture, Steel, Sky, Outdoors, Moving Up, Bucket, Tower, Hanging, Residential District, Backgrounds, Activity, City Life, Urban Scene, Washing Glass, Pattern, Open, Copy Space, Fensterfront, von unten, Large Group of Objects, Textured Effect, Businessfassde, Schwarz Weiss, Facade, Glasfront

old fast sharp lens, File #9479527:

Keywords: Hand-Held Telescope, Focus, Eyesight, Lens, Intelligence, Concepts, Telescopic Equipment, Speed, Work Tool, Symbol, Journey, Ideas, Horse Racing, Old, Glass, Direction, Optical Instrument, Single Object, objektiv, Isolated, Black, Looking, Exploration, Magnification, Inspiration, Isolated On White, Equipment, White, Eye Test Equipment, Discovery, Finding, White Background, People Traveling, Strategy, Planning, Watching, Service, A Helping Hand, Power, 1980s Style, Approaching, Close-up, Badge, Blue, Turf, Copy Space, Telephoto Lens, Cut Out, Photographer, Back Lit, Side View, Diagonal, Optisch, Pipe

large broken pot plant, File #14931256:

Keywords: hack, Outdoors, Green, Large Build, Large, Flower Pot, Plant, Tontopf, Vase, China, Antique, Part Of, Failure, Old, Butterflies in the Stomach, Rudeness, Pulsating, Defeat, Bad Condition, Bankruptcy, Concepts, Accident, Frustration, Violence, Evening Ball, Cross Section, fragmentation, Blumenerde, Storm, Damaged, Descriptive Color, Saucepan, Dirt, Umgekippt, Mutterboden, Halb, Geteilt, Sturmschäden, Umgefallen, Emotional Stress, Breaking, Broken, Relationship Difficulties

Eric Hood

Stock photography by Eric Hood. See more here.

Metalic Brick Wall, File #5801433:

Keywords: Nail Salon, Purple, Magenta, Built Structure, Textured, Disco Dancing, Store, Dress Shop, Abstract, Backgrounds, Architectural Feature, Bright, Nightclub, Clothing Store, Beauty Spa, Brick, Wall, Brick Wall, Silver, Building Exterior

Woman Using Butter Knife as Screwdriver on White, File #5951042:

Keywords: Butter Knife, Innovation, Screwdriver, Human Hand, Chores, Choice, Creativity, Home Improvement, Fingernail, Manicure, Domestic Life, Solution, Tighten, Silverware, Repairing, Screw, Women, Isolated On White, Table Knife, Female, Human Finger, Caucasian, White, Work Tool, Equipment, White Background, Part Of, People, One Person, Only Women, One Woman Only, Housework, Vertical, Color Image, Photography, Studio Shot

Perfect Pineapple, File #6404946:

Keywords: Pineapple, Apron, Women, Chef, Holding, Green, Fruit, Vertical, Female, Yellow, Organic

Abel Leao

Stock photographs by Abel Leao. See more here.

Mouse trap, File #3891144:

Keywords: Trap, Mousetrap, Wire, Wood, Craft, Isolated On White, Craft Product, Trapped, Remote

Shaved head, File #3324637:

Keywords: Shaving, Human Head, Hairy Back, 40s, One Man Only, Men, Watch, Thinking, Waiting

Colored textil Palete, File #3948992:

Keywords: Knitting, Palette, Textured Effect, Lace, Wood, Crochet, Backgrounds, Multi Colored, Textile, Woven

Esolla

Stock photographs by Esolla. See more here.

Linen tester, File #10245942:

Keywords: Design, Halftone Pattern, Black And White, Magnifying Glass, linen tester, Printout, Close-up, Soft Focus

Social Networking Risks, File #121751142:

Keywords: Fishing Hook, Social Networking, Addiction, Danger, Ideas, Concepts, Paper, Soft Focus, Single Word, Social Network, Vignette

Happy on 3-D movie, File #11957201:

Keywords: 3-D Glasses, 30s, Brown Hair, Business, Businesswoman, Cheerful, Happiness, Low Key, Movie, Portrait, Smiling, Soft Focus, Vertical, Women

Slawomir Kruz

Stock photographs by Slawomir Kruz. See more here.

Embroidery, File # 8173340:

Keywords: Embroidery, Women, Textile, Senior Adult, Craft Product, embroider, Stitch, Cross Shape, Craft, Human Hand, handiwork, Hobbies, Paintings

Woman doctor portrait, File #8261567:

Keywords: Hospital, Doctor, Equipment, Medicine, Women, Medical Test, Medical Exam, Healthcare and Medicine, Taking Pulse, Stethoscope

Teeth Whitening, File #14565697:

Keywords: Dentist, Patient, Dental Hygiene, Human Teeth, whitening, White, Surgery, Bleach, Cleaning, Healthcare and Medicine, Hygiene, Doctor, Medical Exam

guest blogger • ryan barone

big hello to guest blogger ryan barone. as he describes his contribution of stock photography that will unfold this week: "roe ethridge once spoke of what he called 'the plastic capability of the image.' he said, 'it's the same image whether it's illustrating a text or has a caption, on the walls or on a bus stop. i like the fact that photography is ubiquitous and polymorphic, that it can be for the specialist or the dilettante or sometimes both at the same time.' stock photographs are created with this plasticity in mind; they are, by design, empty vessels neither wholly ambiguous or direct. do you know who photographed 'the parked domain girl'? dustin steller. did you know that the subject's name is hannah? does it matter?" see more of ryan's work here.

[ryan barone. the metamorphosis. 2010.]

Brian Khek

"Interpreting our relationship with information as a visual spectrum of didactic signifiers, the images in my work subjugate and expand physical experiences simultaneously. The fixed image inherently rephrases an experience. Documentation of this work is not interchangeable with the original object. It instead behaves as a different language through the physical displacement of the viewer as a result of the apparatus."

 

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Visit Brian Khek's website for more of his work.

Lenox-Lenox/Lauren Elder

BLUE MATTER
2010-11



"BLUE-MATTER utilizes the structure of a design firm in order to propose body-specific objects that act as aids for future events. These products intend to protect the body and reinstate satisfactory living, causing the viewer/consumer to contemplate current/future events, the consequences of said events on the body, and the inherent economic restrictions associated with consumer society."



"An infomercial suggests the designs’ tangibility –– the objects nevertheless remain in a virtual state. The two realities have the potential to merge, yet, like the proposed objects, their amalgamation is incomplete. The objects remain in an idolized, impenetrable state in which the body strives to subsist. Similarly, vacuum-formed objects act as mock-ups for the deficient objects, emphasizing their in-progress state. Like imperfect blueprints, these plastic forms operate as abstracted drawings for manufactured products."

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Click thru for more work by Lenox-Lenox and Lauren Elder

Irena Knezevic

HYPNOPOMPIC BOWER (2008)
Chamber installation



"A two-part installation compositing 19th century phantasmagoric display and contemporary signifiers of horror. The title alludes to the term for the moment before waking, when imagination confuses the vivid dream state for reality. The fantasy and dream narratives mesh, their rules and permeability overlap and nightmares come to life. The work, conceived in 2008, has been installed for the first time in this winter."

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More work by Irena Knezevic can be found on her website.

Kristen Stokes

MIRRORED PHASES:

"The dreamer wakens to a spectral gaze, an unbeknownst irradiation, indulging in the infinite realm of the unknown. Dark spaces meshing with beams of blinding light create transcendence beyond the edge of the frame, sliding into the void of the imaginary."

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"Playing with the assumption of a photograph as the documented real, I bring efficacy to otherworldly spaces. I manipulate of color, scale, and light, enhancing the affect of experience, rather than a representation of reality.

I use photography as a way to actualize visions of an alternate world, a space of endlessness. Privileged eyes can burrow into this fantasy space through collective forms like geometric portals, nature, and light."

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More work by Kristen Stokes

Eileen Mueller

From her series Kunstbabys and Thin Ghosts:

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"My work engages historic modes of photographing with the aim of reviving the magic of the latent image. In a post- Becher world I find myself reacting against the aesthetic artifacts of objectivity and dead pan photography that have robbed contemporary photography of the wonder and mysticism that were at one time unique to its photochemical qualities.

Through rephotographing vernacular snapshots, my work participates in a conversation about the history of the photograph as a widely used ritual object. By using my familial archive as source material, my photographs subvert the aesthetics of copystand and evidentiary modes of cataloguing in order to unpack the memorial aspects of the photograph. Through highlighting the surface and objecthood of optical prints, I conjure lost notions of photography as a medium for the metaphysical. More recently, my photographs have extended my engagement with photographic history beyond the bounds of the personal archive. I am reapproaching the expressive potential of technical imagery by manipulating the interpretive components inherent to the apparatus. The optical-mechanical system of the camera has long been debunked as a wholly objective indexical device. I delve deeper into the subjective and phantasmagoric potential of the mediated image by utilizing aberattions like the internal reflections of an uncoated lens in a way that reignites the magical elements of optics."

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To see more work by Eileen Mueller, go here.