Caslon Projects

Paul Fusco spent two months photographing victims of Chernobyl.

In 1987 a PhD student at the University of Michigan named Thomas Knoll wrote a program on his Macintosh to display images. It was eventually licensed by Adobe, and the first version of Photoshop was released on February 19th, 1990. The program has transformed how images are seen and how photographs are taken. I began [...]

Above left: A screen shot from Escape Vehicle No. 6 by Simon Faithfull, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst for its 2004 Artists Airshow; and right: A screen shot from the Toshiba commercial version. See YouTube clips from each below: In an interview about the project, Mr. Faithfull spoke of the futility of human attempts to [...]

The Council Bluffs Drive-In, Iowa, by by Carl Weese. Since 1998, Carl Weese has traveled to 27 states in search of theaters that convey a story of the nation’s love affair with the automobile and the open road, as well as a sense of the country’s past and present. See more photos and read about [...]

Dennis Stock: CALIFORNIA—Venice Beach Rock Festival, 1968. “I’ve never taken an assignment,” Mr. Stock said last year during an address to photojournalism students at the University of Texas. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself, [...]

The above photo is by Cédric Gerbehaye: “I’m not looking for the combat,” he said. “I’m interested in trying to tell the story of the people.” See a great photo essay on the Congo from July 2008 by Mr. Gerbehaye, with writing by Amber Benham here. Via NY Times Lens Blog.

For art, nothing compares to the noughties: Bold artistic revolutions, stunning new architecture … Only one problem: it’s not the first decade of the 21st century I’m talking about, but a century ago Say what you like about the first decade of this new century, in art it has been epochal. Never did the accident [...]

An Exhibition curated by Andrea Serbonich. December 12 – January 16, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 12 from 6-8pm Central Utah Art Center 86 South Main Ephraim, UT 84627 435-283-5110 www.cuartcenter.org Foreign Tongue situates a photojournalistic approach in a fine art context. Most of the photographers in this exhibition have renown for their arresting and [...]

From the frontiers of climate change comes Consequences by NOOR. Featuring the work of nine, internationally acclaimed photographers, this exhibition documents the devastating effects of climate change around the globe. These stunning photographs show not what might happen in the future but what is happening today. Above photo by Pep Bonet: From the Upper Silesian [...]

In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine — and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame. Burtynsky’s photo Nickel Tailings #37, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996 Above: a video of a short talk by the artist introducing his work and ideas.

Above: a frame from the video THEATRE OF WAR, by Richard Mosse. Shot from the columned poolside terraces and French windows of Uday Hussein’s palace in the Jebel Makhoul mountain range in central Iraq. Mosse continues this vein of epic documentary photography in the exhibition The Fall (November 19 – December 23, 2009, at Jack [...]

John F. Kennedy is an accountant who lives in the Long Island town of Merrick with his wife and two children. He is 45 — born nine months after the assassination of the 35th President. The photo is by Patrick Witty, who is working on a portrait series featuring people with Presidential names, from George [...]

Top: A view from the New Museum on Sunday. Above: A detail of the third floor installation by Mr. Fischer. Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty is now up at the New Museum. The show has lots of dramatic moments, plays of scale and materials, but I was particularly drawn to the fantastically subtle work encompassing [...]

Life is not a fucking pain in the ass. On photography, career ambition and positive thinking with Selina Maitreya: Life is busy and life is fabulous, but if you take the attitude that life is a fucking pain in the ass, well hello welcome to the world you’ve created. Yes, we have to work harder [...]

What do Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell have in common? All were artists (amongst others) who opposed Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim museum construction. See the open letter below: