I was recently introduced to the stunning street photography of Saul Leiter (talent I should have known!) His work captures a bygone erea of New York with a abstraction that looks fresh even today; truly, he paints with a lens.
And as many images as I've posted here, you're just left wanting to see more...
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kintsukuroi. (noun) Japanese. "To repair with gold"; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver so the piece is more beautiful for being broken.
A stunning concept.
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Banksy painting Brooklyn. The whitewashing of 5Pointz. And now 1980's style tagging of NYC Subway cars.
Graffiti heading for mainstream consciousness.
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Street artist and illustrator Daan Botlek is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. His site-specific street art has figures interacting with the space around them.
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Can't say that artist Tim Kowles created this series of drawings produced by attaching drawing implements to the tips of tree branches, because really, the trees did. But it was an inspired idea.
"The wind’s effects on the tree, recorded on paper like signatures, each drawing reveals the different qualities and characteristics of each tree."
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Taylor Holland photographs the frames from great works at the Louvre and digitally fills them with their own content.
Currently he's partnering with Saintill Lijsten to realize a physical prototype of this project by taking antique frames and filling them with hand-crafted molds.
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Don't you just want to touch this when security is distracted?
Untitled, 2011. Granite, stainless steel and lacquer. 75 x 248 x 301 inches.
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Eily O'Connell is an award winning, contemporary jewellery artist based in Ireland who composes beautiful creations with eerie undertones.
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Artist Vik Muniz joins creative forces with Brazil's catadores––garbage pickers who mine treasure from the world's largest landfill, Rio's enormous Jardim Gramacho.
With touching empathy, Muniz then creates portraits of them from the very trash they collect for him (see above.)
In this oak-leaf-clustered documentary the catadores reveal themselves to be unique and surprising individuals in their own right, waxing philosophical as they impart valuable lessons about what society discards.
I might rattle on here about discovery of self and the dignity of labor, but I shall resist.
Movie blurb: 'What happens in the world's lagest trash city will transform you.'
Yeah, it will. Have I lied to you before?
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Dollar Note by Robert Gligorov. 2006-07.
Installation, mixed media: piano, glass birdhouse, canaries, bird food. And, presumably, bird poop.
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