ralph gibson

ralph gibson is an american photographer - and has made 40 books over the last 40 years or so, more here

farrell brickhouse

i knew farrell from days spent on the street in front of my studio at 65 w bway - everybody on the block knew farrell. he was quite a painter and not only did he have great tales about belushi the rest of the saturday night live cast descending on the block to have a snowy evening - but he had beaten our landlord out of paying rent and had won an extraordinary terms from him with his electric persitance - he got to live there. west broadway between murray and warren became farrell's block. i can still hear him screaming from half a block away at my brother because he had beeped his horn for me up on the 3rd floor. he was right. farrell , who is still an amazing painter , moved to warmer pasteurs on staten island several years ago - the block misses him - but i just came across some images of him - and the studio during his west broadway days and his presence came rushing back - and realized he is also quite a photographer and collector of photos more from farrell's "book of sources" album can be found here

arno nollen

arno nollen is a dutch photographer who lives and works in amsterdam and makes images , prints, books and videos. more here and here and here

jean-luc godard

JLG still going strong after more than 50 years. nobody combines text with photographs better than godard . more here

jane hammond

longtime new york city painter jane hammond work took a really interesting turn into photography and montage about 5 years ago. more here

[ Perpetual Love 2005 : when You Wish 2008 : face facts 2006 : graflex 2007 ]

christopher wool

christopher wool is an absolute master of many media but his greatest source of inspiration is likely the black and white photograph roughly printed by a xerox machine. his web site breaks down the various uses of black and white across the media spectrum. more here .

[absent without leave 1993:luhring augustine, new york 2004:los angeles 1997: fuckem 1992 enamel on aluminum]

santiago sierra

jose freire and his team gallery continue their showcasing of black and white imagery - this time with the photos and works of the often extreme santiago sierra who employs the always current iconography of the orgy to touch on some delicate and painful political points. sierra's los penetrados (the penetrated) is a 45-minute film in eight acts that is shown at the gallery along with a couple of related series of photographs. go check them out and say hello to jose! and maybe santiago will be around. more here and here

[ act 5 : act 1 : installation view team gallery ]

valie export

in 1968 the austrian artist Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to valie export. export was the name of a popular cigarette brand. and in naming herself after a cigarette she seemed to want to light herself on fire with her work to keep up with other rather extreme viennese actionist artist of the time (people like günter brus, otto mühl, herman nitsch, and rudolf schwarzkogler ) who were cutting off limbs and whatnot to escape the bourgeoise or enter the annals of history. with her new name , valie export sought a new identity that was, she says, not bound “by her father’s name (lehner), or her former husband’s name (hollinger).” more here

theo altenberg

a few photographs from the multi-talented theo altenberg from his days in otto mühl's action analysis commune. more here and here

[ 1978-Aktionsanlyse : 1974-Kommune-Friedr : 1975-Kommune-Selbstdarstellung : 1976-Kommune-Friedrichshof ]

john currin + horst diekgerde

photographs from the painter john currin and the photographer horst diekgerde's collaboration with the designer peter saville in their production to create an image for the singer jarvis cocker's of pulp for the 1998 album "this is hardcore." more here and here

paul koiker

paul koiker is a current dutch master of the printed image. his pictures of the last decade seem to come from somewhere far away and distant - places we never got a chance to go. they seem to exist as both very specific bits of someone's history as well as perfect models of classical beauty. more here and here.

[ from hunting and fishing : from room service : from crush : from hunting and fishing]

a constructed world

...... a constructed world was founded in melbourne, australia in in 1993. more here

[ le feu scrupuleux (365 stills) 2008, ink jet prints on archival paper, various dimensions in the exhibition le feu scrupuleux, cneai, chatou 2008 ]

lina bertucci

lina bertucci is an artist who has made some pretty great portraits of other artists. more here

[ janine antoni :haim steinbeck : jeff koons]

jim campbell

I first saw a work by jim campbell in 2001 at the bitstreams show at the whitney it was his picture of harry nyquist and it really stole the show. you have to kind of see them in person , because they function as much as a piece of sculpture or relief as it does an image. it is both. but the piece has stuck hard in my head ever since. if you get a chance to see one of his works in person or buy one one - do it.

more here

[ home movies, wave modulation, untitled (led explosion), 2010 - 1152 leds, custom electronics ]