Plastic surgery is not a new thing and every time I am in the USA I am amazed at how “normal” it seems to have become. Philip Toledano‘s portrait series”A New Kind of Beauty” shows people who have gone under the knife and submitted to “extreme platic surgery”. Merble, it seems, is an outdated medium where sculpting is concerned. It has been replaced by flesh.
Toledano’s photos photos capture his subjects beautifully. The decision whether they themselves have been made beautiful, he leaves to the beholder.
Plastic People
There is a great collection of Phillip Toledanos work here.
No Longer Empty is a non-profit organization that “was conceived as an artistic response to our present economic condition and to revitalize empty spaces and areas around the venues by bringing thoughtful, high-caliber art installations with accompanying programming to the public.”
They have been using old storefromts to disply art. Their newest location is the old Tower Records location on Broadway, which has been vacant for 3 years.
“Diaspora" by Paul Villinski, courtesy of Morgan Lehman Gallery.
“Photographic wall panel” is a general term for photographic products generally offered by printing services. Various printing substrates can be used in photographic wall panels, the most common being canvas. Acrylic panels are becoming a popular alternative. Other types of panel include metal composites often aluminium or alloy and more lightweight foam-core panels.
An acrylic panel: printed directly on durable plastic sheets, images have an almost three-dimensional appearance.
There are several advantages to photographic wall panels:
No framing necessary
Durability
Easy installation
Weather resistant (e.g. acrylic, metal)
Stylish & modern
Here is one supplier I have used for photographic wall panels. It only took about a week between order and delivery.
Zoltan Arva-Toth of the Photography Blog posted about an upcoming exhibition by Nick Hannes in Antwerp called Red Journey. He travelled to 15 Soviet countries and photographed the way they live.
I found one of the photos intriguing, because it shows a massive sculpture that was clearly communist-inspired and a group of young unifomed individuals marching (out of sync) in front of it. To me this looks like a soviet version of Disney Land or one of those historical recreations like at Plymouth or Upper Canada Village. I’d love to know the background of this photo!
The Re: Photo Blog has an interesting post about the Not Terrorists campaign. The blogger estimates 1500 photographer took part in this protest on Trafalgar Square!
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