A Brief History of John Baldessari
John Baldessari is pretty epic, a towering figure in art (literally and figuratively) . Conceptual art is pretty funny to me; I suspect he also has a sense of humour about it, too. Anyhow, Baldessari has been around for long…
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The City Makes its Own Collage
I’m a big fan of collage in its many forms. By its many forms, I mean traditional collage where people cut things out and past them back together using paper media or manipulating digital images, or even (as in this…
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Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer whose work documents the impact of industry on the environment. Most of his work is quite large, high resolution prints taken with a large-format camera that capture bleak but visually rich vistas of industrial…
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Michael Kenna – Power Stations
Michael Kenna is a photographer originally from the UK but living in the US since the 80s. He’s done a pile of work, but I found a series of rather haunting photos of what look like nuclear reactor silos (actually…
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Ian Rogers – Photos of Abandoned Places
A couple of days ago I wrote about the photographer Robert Polidori, and mentioned that to some extent his work resonates with me because I also take photos of abandoned places. I first started taking photos in abandoned places in…
