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TinyVices

Images by Guy Martin from his Cossacks series and Boru O'Brien O'Connell.  Both photographers are featured on tinyvices, an online and image gallery that exhibits the talented works of contemporary artists.

Enjoy your Sunday! I'm making homemade vegetable lentil (THE best) soup, doing laundry, waiting for the furniture mover, browsing photography sites and so very thankful the 'blizzard' that was supposed to hit was all talk.  Okay, now get cozy and enjoy your early evening - XX, NoNY

Dear Dave Magazine

Dear Dave Magazine is a tri-annual publication of photography and writing that features original idiosyncratic work by mostly unknown artists. Each issue is a gem that awaits your amazement for the  hidden talent inside.  A year subscription is only $34. Dear Dave is such a nice gift to anyone who appreciates art this holiday season. Just sayin'.

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Blind Spot Conversations: Corin Hewitt with Jason Fulford from Blind Spot on Vimeo.

Blind Spot has announced a new video series featuring artists in conversation.  This is the inaugural conversation with Corin Hewitt and Jason Fulford.  Each video runs about 10 - 15 minutes.  I am really looking forward to future episodes.  Blind Spot Issue 42 is now on newsstands (or reached your mailbox).

Michal Chelbin at M+B

M+B gallery in Los Angeles is currently exhibiting The Black Eye, an exhibition of color photographs by Tel Aviv based artist Michal Chelbin.  The work recalls classical images of athletes while highlighting emotional intimacy staged behind monochrome backgrounds and lush landscapes.  At a quick glance, the figures are reminiscent of Diane Arbus' work but also differ in many ways.  Unlike Arbus, these images are neither nostalgic nor candid. Fiction and documentary talents collide in Chelbin's work. They are truly spectacular.

The show runs until December 4th.

William Eggleston For Now

Memphis native William Eggleston has long been noted as a pioneer in photography - color photography to be exact. This is a big year for the artist with a show currently hanging at LACMA and his new book spanning four decades of work, William Eggleston For Now, by Twin Palms Press recently published. The book is 144 pages with 87 four-color plate, 12 x 14 images. Each and every image is superb.

The best thing about Eggleston's work is how it is all so unassuming and the 'awe' he is able to create from fragments of ordinary and untouched reality. There is also something else that always lies under the pigment that creates a sense of unease. Eggleston's unmanipulated images ask the question: what is next? It's the vulnerability and the unknown he always seems to capture that really resonates with me. I can easily find myself lost for hours.

Image: William Eggleston, Preface to Election Eve, 1977

Pictures by Women at MoMA

If you happen to visit MoMA anytime soon don't miss the small exhibition (200 works) on the third floor (next to Bruce Nauman's DAYS) Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. The show is stellar and exhibited in a thoughtful chronological order. Artists included are Roni Horn, Helen Levitt, Yoko Ono, Diane Arbus, and Imogen Cunningham, among many more.

Images above are Cindy Sherman, Untitled #92, 1981 and Valie Export, Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969

Take my advice and do not attempt to go on a Sunday in the summer if you are coming from Brooklyn. It took me nearly two hours to get there today due to construction and the other typical MTA mishaps that continue to cripple the subways on the weekends. I had to take the M at Myrtle/Wyckoff to the J at Myrtle to the N at Canal Street to the Q at Times Square/42nd Street to the E to 53rd and 5th Avenue to MoMA, finally. It was very aggravating. Oh, and I almost forgot - it was also raining.

Anyway, go see the show and enjoy what is left of Sunday...

Ode to Arbus

I saw the above artwork on an exterior wall in Chelsea this afternoon on 19th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues (near my favorite fruit stand). I'm calling it Ode to Arbus.

I remember seeing the original photograph Boy with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, NYC, 1962 when I was installing an exhibition nearly ten years ago at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, San Diego and completely hypnotized by her work. Diane Arbus shot some of the best candid portraits you will ever see. This was a great surprise to run into today.

Aaron Ruell

The amazing images above are from photographer Aaron Ruell also known as "Kip" from Napoleon Dynamite. His work is incredible - beautiful light and subject arrangement. Ruell is brilliant; a real talent.