ron jude

ron jude's project 'alpine star' extracts images from 'the star news' a local newspaper in mccall idaho. see more here.

[all ron jude. from the series alpine star. 2004-6.]

penelope umbrico

penelope umbrico's found images of broken LCD tvs for sale on ebay. see more here.

[all penelope umbrico. from the series broken sets (ebay).]

tiban núñez

work by tiban núñez, made from his friends' facebook photos. see more here.

[from the series fotos bonitas.]

faund

faund is a new paper magazine and online-platform that highlights the value of internet-found images. issue #1 features finds by peter sutherland, guy meldem, and constant dullaart. see more here.

[all from faund #1.]

it's 1975 and this man is about to show you the future

an amazing set of 56 images from a 1975 ibm slide presentation up over on square america. they describe it as "one foot in the future and the other stuck solidly in the 70s." yes! see the whole set here. and thanks to ofer for the link.

[all from the square america exhibition it's 1975 and this man is about to show you the future.]

judith baumann

interested in "the idea of translating a text about art back into the images it obliterated," judith baumann's project 'google air guitar' translates all 2,835 words of art critic dave hickey's essay 'air guitar' into a rebus of images culled via google image searches. as she explains about the process: "each word within the essay is represented by one image which is used throughout the print suite. all images were separately collected from the internet between february 26 and april 16, 2004. at that time, each image was the first, second or third result on the google image search option, depending on the first website’s immediate availability." see more here.

[all judith baumann. google air guitar. 2004.]

the michelle du bois project

the michelle du bois project by zoe crosher and leslie grant explores the vast archive of tourist photographs, family snapshots, and pornographic images of an american woman who traveled in japan as a prostitute in the 1970s and 80s. as they say about the project, "these casual and amateur snapshots of her posing throughout the pacific rim propose a complex of disparate but interrelated discourses, including notions of the archive, the role of photography in relation to narrative, story-telling, and personal identity, the politics of private and public..." see more here and here.

[all from the michelle du bois project.]

louis porter

from melbourne-based british photographer louis porter's great project: anatomy of a business man. the images were all gathered from 1980's corporate headshots. see more of loius's work here.

[all louis porter. from the series anatomy of a business man.]

the infinite library

the infinite library is an amazing project by daniel gustav cramer and haris epaminonda. as they describe it: "the book objects (...) are each made from pages of existing books removed from their bindings and rebound as one. some of these series loosely relate to each other via a third element: geometrical shapes abstracted from the images, computer-edited, and overprinted on the originals. the disparate image stocks become intertwined and open on one another. having transcended any thematic organization, the loose pages now have the potential to amalgamate into an infinite number of new books. In so doing, they yield a library that defies conventional categorization." see more here.

[all daniel gustav cramer + haris epaminonda. from the project the infinite library.]

ian haig

behold australian artist ian haig's men of the internet project. "a web project which consists of a compilation of found images of the cornerstone of any good teen movie: computer nerds. 'men of the internet' presents the idea of the computer nerd as a species of human that have had their bodies literally transformed and modified as a result of prolonged computer use. a collection of real life altered physiognomy and biological/technological modification: bigger brains, protruding craniums and enhanced eyesight with enormous glasses." see the whole project right here.

[all ian haig. men of the internet. 2004.]

ian pedigo

ian pedigo incorporates photographs into his assemblages in such great ways. take a peek at more of ian's stuff here.

[all ian pedigo. top to bottom: scholastic (cardboard, tape, bamboo, book pages). 2007. mar. 2006. crowd (wood, magazine clipping, tape, newsprint). 2007.]

peter coffin

some really amazing stuff by peter coffin. you can take a peek at more of peter's work here.

[top to bottom: aura portrait (sarah). 2002. untitled (bird in space, tropical drink). 2004. untitled (rainbow). 2005.]

steven shearer

canadian artist steven shearer's collages use found imagery to an overwhelming effect. you can see more of steven's work here.

[all steven shearer. top to bottom: kaleidoscope II. 2006-7. tool sheds. huddles. 2007. ]

leslie grant

found photos of people pointing from the collection of artist leslie grant. see more of her stuff here.

[all photographers unknown / leslie grant.]

erik niedling

german photographer erik niedling's most recent project, formation, is a re-printing of a found archive of thousands of glass negatives made between the two world wars. the photos depict plants, blossoms, tools and the everyday life of garden production in the sober visual language of new objectivity photographrs like albert renger-patzsch and karl blossfeldt. see more here.

[all erik niedling. 2007. top to bottom: formation #5. formation #26. formation #27.]

rogier maaskant

for this project dutch artist rogier maaskant zeros us in on depictions of flowers in otherwise banal photographs. see more of rogier's stuff right here.

[all rogier maaskant. from the series flowers from pictures.]

harm van den dorpel

woah, totally amazing work by dutch artist harm van den dorpel. these are stills from found photo animations. be sure to watch the full animations of these here and here and peek at all the other interesting stuff harm is up to right here.

[all harm van den dorpel. 2007. top (left to right): still from resurrection 2. still from sleepwalker 3. bottom (left to right): still from sleepwalker 1. still from resurrection 1.]