Just opened in New York, the first major exhibition on Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 200 pictures. Until 27th January 2013, with sponsorship from Adobe. Above: Dora Maar, “Le simulateur” (1936). Simple two-picture photomontage: upside-down image of a sewer interior, with the boy pasted onto it. If you […]
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Photographize magazine
Photographize magazine is a new free magazine. It appears to veer strongly toward ‘the fantastic’ in photomontaged photography…
Moon gardening
Moon gardening…
Altered Images – new photobook
20 Nov 2011 at 06:06
David Haden
Artist(s), neu-real, Photographers
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Just published, Altered Images: new visionaries in 21st century photography is a new 192-page photobook that surveys… “the boundary of real and surreal” in… “portraiture, landscape photography, digital manipulation, social realism, conceptual art, photorealism and digital photo-montage” Those interested in the background might also want to look at my history of fantastic photomontage.
Mars – new work by Kahn & Selesnick
01 Feb 2011 at 12:39
David Haden
Artist(s), neu-real, Photographers
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New work by Kahn & Selesnick, Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea. Published as a Blurb POD book.
Jamie Baldridge
Jamie Baldridge of Australia. Dystopia series: “A Ten-Penny Prophet”
Explosion
Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr… “create light illusions using highly complex pyrotechnics. In their series Explosion, they built a custom-made detonator, which is connected to the camera s and synchronized to snap a photo at the very moment of the explosion.” Above: “Explosion 1” (detail) (2009)
Jim Kazanjian
Jim Kazanjian
Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors
04 Sep 2010 at 05:31
David Haden
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Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors, London… “Surprising numbers of our visitors wish to spend their time in trying to work out what is real and what is not. A distinction that we do not see, nor understand. Up until the Nineteenth Century to call something original was to insult it, for if no one […]
Metamorphosis Victorianus
On now in New York, the exhibition Metamorphosis Victorianus. The names in the gallery’s introduction are actually links to galleries of works in the exhibition, albeit shown too small to see much detail… “Ubu Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition, curated by Meredith Harper, of 20th Century collages all united in their focus on […]
Bibliography for fantastic photomontage
I’ve updated the bibliography for my Timeline of fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 – 2007. The bibliography is now in HTML rather than plain TXT, looks nicer, has a few errors corrected, and has links.
Furnishing stories
The V&A has an interesting-looking free exhibition in London, Telling Tales, on now and set to be a key part of the London Design Festival in September 09… “This exhibition explores the recent trend among European designers for unique or limited edition pieces that push the boundaries between art and design. […] all inspired by […]
Adrift in the aether
Whatever happened to levitation?, asks Cabinet magazine.
Lexikon der Phantastischen Kunstler
15 May 2009 at 17:32
David Haden
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A new encylopedia of fantastic, visionary, surrealist and symbolist visual artists. Sadly it’s all in German, but it’s good to know it exists.
Louviere+Vanessa
28 Apr 2009 at 08:09
David Haden
Artist(s), neu-real, Photographers
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Two new sets of pictures from Louviere+Vanessa. “If X, then why?”. Louviere+Vanessa.
Roger Ballen
Lens Culture has a new audio interview with Roger Ballen, and a set of twenty-five pictures including several new ones.
Roberto Kusturle
07 Jan 2009 at 12:59
David Haden
Artist(s), neu-real, Photographers
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Roberto Kusturle…
Magical & Fictional Worlds in Visual Art
15 Nov 2008 at 07:57
David Haden
Artist(s), neu-real, Photographers
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“Making the Unbelievable, Believable: Magical & Fictional Worlds in Visual Art” — a transcript of a recent panel discussion (inc. Marina Warner) at the Dept. of Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art in London… “The dream is returned to the world so it can be dreamt again. [but] it needed a […]
Oleg Dou
Oleg Dou.
To the Spectobarathrum!
22 Oct 2008 at 07:01
David Haden
neu-real, Photographers, Plucked
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The Colmore Fatagravures… Basilisks, Dragonelles and Dragonettes of The English and Scottish Borders