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Archive for November, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving from Glasshouse!
November 26, 2008
Gamers in a trance
November 25, 2008More and more I’m becoming interested in the effect of games on kids and, in turn, adults. I’m not convinced these games are as bad for people as they are made out to be. Whichever side of the spectrum your opinion falls, here is an amazing project called My Game Face by photographer British Robbie Cooper for the New York Times Magazine.
Cooper used a Red camera, which is a high resolution video camera, and took film stills from the resulting footage. The kids are actually looking at a reflection of the game on glass in front of the camera.
From New York Times Magazine:
“Cooper, who grew up in Britain and Kenya and played a lot of video games as a child, says he tries to capture ‘people interacting with worlds that aren’t real.’ In his last major project, which was published in the magazine in 2007, he photographed participants in Internet-based games with their virtual-world avatars. Cooper is particularly struck by the intensity of people’s experiences while interacting with digital realms … Cooper says, “It’s fascinating that a world that’s purely visual can have a physical effect.”
What do you think?
Is photography immune to the economic crisis?
November 25, 2008An interesting article found its way into my inbox this morning. Well…maybe it is less interesting and more optimistic. Either way, it is making my rainy morning just a little brighter.
Glasshouse Images / Image ID: 7102100041
Article from Art Price:
Has photography proven crisis-proof? [Nov 08]
Confronted with the crisis, the results achieved on the sale of the last photographs in the Jammes collection on 15 November at Christie’s were more measured than alarming. Prices on old negatives are proving resilient, with modern and contemporary photography being harder hit. Whatever the period or medium, the photography market enjoyed the strongest growth in the last decade. Between the last speculative bubble in the art market in 1990 and last summer, the photography price index posted an increase of +131%, compared with +55% for sculpture, the second most popular medium over the same period.
The dispersal of the Jammes collection belonging to Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes effectively put 20th century photography in the spotlight. This dispersal which began in 1999 at Sotheby’s, was to continue in 2002 with two more sales, before concluding in 2008 at the same auction house. In 1999, a number of spectacular sales generated a real shock wave and a +191% rise in prices in two years. The sale of Grande vague, Sète Gustave LE GRAY (1820-1884) is an abiding memory: the print achieved ten times its estimate, the hammer coming down at GBP 460,000, a peak it has never again reached. Since then, the record for an albumin print of this same Grande Vague has been GBP 85,000.
During the last phase of the Jammes sale on 15 November, Sotheby’s catalogue cover boasted a very rare Baron Jean-Baptiste GROS daguerreotype, on which the hammer came down at EUR 180,000. A price level certainly in line with expectation in that it did not surpass its estimate, but which nonetheless beat its previous record by some EUR 90,000. Supported by the quality of the work and a historic provenance, the results were pretty positive with only 27.4% remaining unsold, a rather reassuring level in view of the 42% of prints bought in at other photography sales, irrespective of period, in October and November 2008 (rate recorded on 12 November).
The October sales have seen modern and contemporary rather than historic photography achieve more than their due, with five-figure sale results far more frequent for 20th century photographs. Some stars of the contemporary scene have even propelled photography to million-ticket highs. We might mention the USD 3 million achieved by the Richard PRINCE Cowboy at Sotheby’s NY in November 2007.
At the New York sales dedicated to photography, the most sought-after names suffered the greatest setbacks. More than half the works which had been expected to achieve USD 100,000 remained unsold. At Christie’s, for example, 53% of the negatives being auctioned at Rockfeller Plaza on 14 October remained on their books…
November 2008 Newsletter
November 24, 2008For those of you not currently on our mailing list, here is our monthly newsletter from our assignment division. If you’d like to receive our news once a month, please email info@glasshouseassignment.com.
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| November 2008 | FALL BLOG ROUND-UPWe hope that everyone is enjoying autumn. It can get a little cold here and there, and sometimes it just plain feels like winter, but the leaves are on the ground (depending on where you are) and the colors are beautiful. While we point you to some of our favorite photography blogs, we’ll pepper in some of Derrick Gómez‘s recent personal work–a few beautiful reflections on the fall season. |
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| RESOURCES FOR CREATIVESWhile most of you probably clued in to Rob Haggart’s A Photo Editor, here are a few photography related blogs you might not know about:
In a recent post, Fred spouts one of the best quotes we’ve heard in a long time: “It can be like the magician: while we are all watching one hand, it is often the other hand that is doing the most important work. With all the billions of digital photographs we are making with our cameras and cellphones, we too are becoming the subject, but in ways that we might never have imagined. It’s not about our smiles after all.”
Recently, she posted about a project called Love at First Site which is a 17 minute interactive advertisement for a Greek chocolate bar company called Lacta. The film is about two lovers who meet and are eventually drawn apart. The audience can bring them back together by making the right choices. The website is part of a campaign targeting young adults. Interestingly enough, there is already a facebook group for fans of the love story. |
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Resource Magazine…
November 23, 2008A great source for NYC photographers. Founded by Alexandra Niki and Aurelie Jezequei, co-Editor in Chief. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Alex when she was a stylist. One of best. I’m sure with her creative talents the magazine will have much success. … swj
“Just in case you were wondering who’s behind this endeavor of madness, let us introduce ourselves. We are your fellow photo productionists, Alex and Aurélie. We entered the scene years ago as a stylist and producer and since then have experienced all angles of the industry. Some were good, some bad, but at the end of the day, one thing we’ve realized is that we’re all in this together. Photo production is more than just a job or an artist’s deception– it is a lifestyle, a culture, and a world of people like you and me. Enjoy!”
-Alex and Aurélie
. .. … It’s Late Fall.
November 22, 2008We are weeks away from December 21st , the first day of winter. There’s a chill in the air and I just can’t warm up! Here are some images from our stock library which should get you in the mood.
Gloved Hand / Plainpicture
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Deck Chairs in Snow / Millennium Images
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Hand Print on Frosted Window / Johner
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Iceberg Floating in the Water / Nordic Photos
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Love Derrick Gomez’s sports photography?
November 19, 2008Well then I’ve made a special portfolio just for you!
To view a custom portfolio of Derrick’s sports photography, click here.
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A new take on cowboys…
November 19, 2008Walter Lockwood’s photography certainly doesn’t lack a sense of satire. In a new project, Lockwood parodies the cultural staple of a “Spaghetti Western” by inserting Asian characters into quintessential American roles. His project Sukiyaki Western, is meant to explore the changing quality of media and stereotypes.
“By casting Asian actors as “Cowboys/Gunslingers” and using a palette as open and malleable as the western film genre, I am participating in and illustrating the dissolving of cultural values and reference points.”
- Walter Lockwood in Fabrik Magazine
These images hold my attention not only because of the cultural commentary but because of they are clean, crisp, and technically perfect. What do you think? Leave me a comment!
Thank you Walter and Fabrik Magazine!
A Break from the City
November 18, 2008Derrick Gomez spent a day in the country recently and was nice enough to share his photos with us. They remind me that not every place is a concrete jungle and though it may be getting colder, this is a beautiful time of year.
Thanks Derrick!
Sasha Maslov’s “Prison Theatre”
November 18, 2008Yesterday I came across a wonderful project by Sasha Maslov. Sasha was kind enough to provide me with some additional information on his photography and his time in Ukraine.
“Fall of 2005. One of the penal colonies in Kharkiv, Ukraine.”
“The depressing view of endless gray walls with barbwire on the background of even grayer sky. There is no such thing as time exists in these walls. It’s really hard to imagine that people would try to find something uplifting in this small piece of reality inside other reality.”
“And it’s not just regular people, these fellows are there for a reason, they all committed pretty serious crimes, it’s the prison of a special treatment rank, without any benefits and little hope of cutting the time which for some of them is their lifetime. But there is something. I guess human nature in many cases doesn’t let you drop your head completely and makes you to search for the light even in the deepest shaft.”
“There is a group of prisoners who, with the support from one of the local theaters called Arabeski, makes an effort to organize a troupe and stage a play. The play was written by Jonathan Swift long time ago in Ireland and has very little to do with prison reality in Ukraine of 2005. And that’s why it was extremely moving to observe how these guys are mastering the acting, the transition between prison slang and calling each other sirs and lords, wearing wigs and costumes, rehearsing and then performing for the crowd of their inmates, relatives and guards.”
Thank you Sasha!
Ryan Schude in PDN!
November 17, 2008Ryan Schude the newest addition to our Glasshouse Assignment team, has done us proud in being recognized in PDN’s 14th Annual Pix Digital Imaging Contest. 
Ryan submitted the above image and received merit in the new talent category! Way to go Ryan!
To view more of Ryan’s work, see his new photographer preview here.
You can also view Ryan’s website.
Like what you see? To chat about how great Ryan is and request more info, feel free to contact his rep, Jacqueline Bovaird, any time.
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Jacqueline Bovaird
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… How Do We Break Our Pattern Of Thought
November 16, 2008Disruptive Realism
“The beaten path does not lead to creativity. Good thing there are people out there ready to rock your routine”
SWJ
View Dave Hoffer’s thoughts on DR
Dave Hoffer is Associate Creative Director at Frog Design
. .. This is fantastic and alarming all at once.
November 12, 2008
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait by Chris Jordan
A visual examination of the vast and bizarre measures of our society.
Artist Chris Jordan intricately assembles from thousands of smaller
photographs an expose of the society that we have become.
Toothpicks, 2008
Depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of
trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail.
Plastic Cups, 2008
Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline
flights in the U.S. every six hours
Detail of actual print size:
Handguns, 2007
Depicts 29,569 handguns, equal to the number of gun-related
deaths in the U.S. in 2004
Detail at actual size
Click here to check out more of Chris Jordan’s project
Drumroll please….presenting Ryan Schude!
November 11, 2008RYAN SCHUDE JUST BECAME THE NEWEST MEMBER OF OUR GLASSHOUSE FAMILY!
Ryan Schude is one of the freshest talents I’ve seen in a while. Both he and his work are very clever and just the right amount of fun.
Just for you, our loyal blog readers, I’ve put together a preview of his work before his full portfolio is launched on our website.
To reach the preview directly click here.
Otherwise, you can reach the preview by going to our website and following menu to our client access section. The password is: preview.
For portfolio requests and to commend us on our wonderful choice of talent, call us any time at 212-462-4538.
Clever Indonesian Advertising…
November 10, 2008Below is one of the most interesting advertisements I’ve seen in a while. While I am not sure how effective it actually is in Indonesia, the image itself is amazing.
agency : Bates141 Jakarta
creative director : Hendra Lesmono
art director : Andreas Junus & Irawandhani Kamarga
copywriter : Darrick Subrata
photographer : Anton Ismael
The above advertisement is not promoting Photoshop CS4 but rather encouraging people not to pirate the software.
Thank you Rachel Hulin.
I’m a fan of The Selby
November 10, 2008Todd Selby never disappoints. His photo blog The Selby, displays his photographs of people within their homes/apartments. His subjects are always funny and dare to never take themselves too seriously, both of which are qualities I can truly admire.
His most recent post was too good not to share. Here are his latest images of Abigail and Philip Smiley.
I’m not ready to stop celebrating….are you?
November 10, 2008Here are some images just submitted from election night by one of our photographers, Derrick Gomez.
Derrick is known for his gritty and honest imagery of contact sports, particularly boxing, kick boxing, and ultimate fighting. That being said, he applies this signature style to all his assignments and personal work. View some of his kick boxing work on a previous post by clicking here.
Like Derrick’s work? SO DO WE.
Rachel Papo: Serial No. 3817131
November 6, 2008“At an age when social, sexual, and educational explorations are at their highest point, the life of an eighteen-year-old Israeli girl is interrupted.” – Rachel Papo, speaking about her project Serial No. 3817131.
When Rahel Papo served for the Israeli Air Force for her mandatory two years, she was eighteen years old. Fifteen years after her service ended, she returned to the military bases to document the lives of women solders, helping her to understand her own experiences.
“My service had been a period of utter loneliness, mixed with apathy and pensiveness, and at the time I was too young to understand it all. Through the camera’s lens, I tried to reconstruct facets of my military life, hopeful to reconcile matters that had been left unresolved.” – Rachel Papo
“Photographing these soldiers, I saw my reflection; I was on the other side of a pane of glass—observing a world that I had once been a part of, yet I could not go back in time or change anything. It felt like a dream.” – Rachel Papo
“The photographs in this project serve as a bridge between past and present—a combination of my own recollections and the experiences of the girls who I observed. Each image embodies traces of things that I recognize, illuminating fragments of my history, striking emotional cords that resonate within me. In some way, each is a self-portrait, depicting a young woman caught in transient moments of introspection and uncertainty, trying to make sense of a challenging daily routine. In striving to maintain her gentleness and femininity, the soldier seems to be questioning her own identity, embracing the fact that two years of her youth will be spent in a wistful compromise.” – Rachel Papo
The book of Rachel Papo’s project Serial No. 3817131 is available through powerHouse.
Framing the Presidency
November 5, 2008The Aperture foundation will be holding a free panel discussion Wednesday, November 12th about how photography has shaped our perceptions of Bush’s presidency.
“This panel explores the collision of photography, mass media, and politics in examining the role of images in the 2008 presidential campaign and beyond. Artists and media experts share their experiences and explore the power of photography in constructing our image of the presidency.” Aperture Website
Panel Guests:
David Scull, New York Times campaign picture editor
Todd Heisler, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist
Tim Davis, body of work My Life in Politics, irreverently examines American politics
Robert Hariman, Chair of Communication Studies at Northwestern University
Framing the Presidency
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
7:00 p.m.
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
(212) 229-5353
Photographers’ Advice for the Next President
November 4, 2008PDN did a interesting survey of former white house photographers recently, exploring how the role and the photographs which result from it effect the country’s perception of a president. They then gave their thoughts on how the next first family might take advantage of the impact of photography. Here are some select quotes. The full article and photo gallery can be found here.
“The President and First Lady can set the tone. You have to keep in mind that if you’re willing to be followed occasionally you’re giving the country the opportunity to see how you are. Is it absolutely real? No, of course not, because they know you’re there. But it’s as close as you’re going to get.” – Diane Walker
“I’m concerned that both candidates now have photographers and their main mission is to provide a public relations service. It’s fine if the White House press office wants to use photographs taken by the White House photographer for their own purposes, as long as the photographer is documenting for history. If those pictures don’t get seen for 20 years, so be it.” – Pete Souza
“How you present a president is very important. “Mission Accomplished” was the biggest gaffe in years.” – Diane Walker
“The president doesn’t have to be friends with the photographer, but they certainly have to trust and know him or her well enough to give that person essentially unfettered access to the oval office.” – Pete Souza
“You’re talking about a human being [Johnson] who is so much more human when you see Okamoto’s photographs. Those pictures tell me that that man went through hell, and the sympathy I have for him I can thank Okamoto for. That’s the job of the official photographer. His job isn’t to supply us with pictures, it’s to tell history what this person went through.” – Diane Walker
“If Obama is elected, he has two small children. The Obamas could take a page from the Clintons’ book. They made a certain pact with the Washington press corps. The Obamas could say: We’ll let you have an open photo opportunity when the girls go to the school for the first day, then after that, don’t photograph them unless they’re with us. It was amazing how everyone showed up to see Chelsea Clinton walk into the door of Sidwell Friends School and that was it. If we saw her walking with other girls, we didn’t photograph her. If they [the Obamas] decide it would be nice for the press to have a picture of the girls on the south lawn or in the Oval Office with him, more power to them. If you do that, you take away the desire for it, and the press isn’t always nagging for it.” – Diane Walker
“The current administration has been a confetti machine of hand-outs. They have, in my estimation, tried to supplant outside photography by releasing photos almost on a daily basis of stuff that other photographers should be able to cover. That doesn’t include classified meetings – I understand that. But the more photos the White House releases, the less valuable they become, and the more suspect they become.” – David Hume Kennerly
Love Love Love, Martos Gallery
November 4, 2008Recommended Show: Love Love Love at the Martos Gallery
On View November 6 to December 6
Press release:
Martos Gallery presents Love Love Love, a provocative group exhibition exploring the physical and emotional effects of love on a diverse group of artists and their practice. Are artists bound by the same taboos as everybody else? Is sexual artwork always personal? Is it obscene? Are artists more scopophilic than other people?
The work on display pushes past conventional notions of romance to focus on the transformative power of obsession and fantasy. Artists can, like anyone else, be held hostage by the fascinations of transgression, pornography and voyeurism and their role in sexual desire; but they are also aware, more than anyone else, of the power of imagery and how to harness it. Artists’ willingness to subvert and collage everything from the portrait of a lover to an advertisement in a magazine demonstrates to what extent their experience of love and sex is mediated by imagery.
Some of the pieces in the exhibition display a playful, irreverent attitude towards body parts, confusing genitalia with identity in a kind of metonymic sleight of hand. Lee Lozano’s portraits of penises seem awkward and puzzled; Keith Haring’s painting about being sexually bound to another human being in the age of AIDS is both joyous and agonized.
By quoting and appropriating from pornography, the artists in this exhibition bring pictures meant for mass consumption into a realm between public and private, where the game of what is hidden and what is visible is shown once again to be an essential ingredient in both erotism and art. Our puritan society had relegated sexual imagery to the realm of the dirty or evil; but pornography only exists in societies that repress sexual expression. Sexual organs and acts have been celebrated and ritualized since the dawn of humanity, and the artists in this show prove they still know how to have a good time.
Included artists: Andisheh Avini, Nobuyoshi Araki, Donald Baechler, Kevin Baker, Marina Berio, Jean-Christian Bourcart , Ellen Berkenblit, Larry Clark, Alberto Di Fabio, Tracey Emin, Nan Goldin, Leon Golub, Napoleon Habeica, Keith Haring, Eberhard Havekost, Barbara Kruger, David LaChapelle, Lee Lozano, Robert Mapplethorpe, Maripol, Servane Mary, Almagul Menlibayeva, Curtis Mitchell, Eduardo Paolozzi, Marco Rountree-Cruz, David Salle, Sam Samore, Kiki Seror, Lyle Starr, Danniel Swatosh, Susanne Thiemann, Chris Verene, Lawrence Weiner, T.J Wilcox, Pawel Wojtasik…
Above Photograph by David Salle, ‘Untitled’, 1984
Martos Gallery
www.martosgallery.com
540 W 29th Street,
New York, NY 10001
info@martosgallery.com
VOTE…no excuses.
November 3, 2008If you or someone you know has a problem voting, whether it be with registering, accessing poling sites, missing ballots, or problems operating a voting machine, contact the CNN voter hotline. View statistics for reported cases here.
CNN Voter Hotline:
877-GOCNN-08
Derrick Gomez Delivers
November 3, 2008Once again, Derrick Gomez delivers incredible boxing photography. I love the newest addition to his portfolio and also feel they speak to his philosophy around photography, which we discussed in a recent monthly email. Here, I’ve posted these new additions and also some quotes from our discussion. View if the full text here. Enjoy!
“When fighters fight, they enter an animalistic, reptilian state. It’s honest. You can see it in their eyes.”
“These moments, where they are completely lost in the experience, are perfect opportunities for a great photograph… filming it would never be very clear to the viewer because the signals they put out are just too complicated. Photography is great for catching their subtleties.”
“When I first started photographing MMA (mixed martial arts) fighters I didn’t really understand their art form. I only knew how fighting appeared superficially and I found out that I was not comfortable directing the fighters without this knowledge. Knowing that I wouldn’t be doing the fighters justice, I trained how to fight myself. Photography for me is all about perspective. If you understand something deeply, it will ultimately come across in your imagery.”
To see more of Derrick’s work,
go to www.glasshouseassignment.com or contact his rep Jacqueline Bovaird at jacqueline@glasshouseassignment.com or 212-462-4538.
