Joel Sternfeld
Together with Stephen Shore & William Eggleston, Joel Sternfeld has put fine art color photography on the map in the early 70′s.
A couple of days ago I visited foam.org in Amsterdam which currently is portraying some 100+ Joel Sternfeld images, as such covering his work since 1970 and on. While his early work is interesting to see and enables you to put his later work into perspective, it’s the images from ‘American Prospects’ & ‘Stranger Passing’ which really overwhelmed me last week. Large-scale work with the subjects mostly looking directly in the lens or simply presenting typical overviews of the ordinary American life. Joel Sternfeld has carefully investigated the American suburbs in the 70′s & 80′s and the results are simply astonishing.
If you’ re in Amsterdam in the coming weeks, between your stop at the coffee shop & what-do-I-know-else, make sure not to miss this unique exhibition.
Thé Lau
The deepest ‘blue’.
Some 20 years ago I was at a party were The Scene played a fantastic gig in a big tent. Suddenly a gust of wind swept the tent a couple of hundred meters away. Result: several severe injuries and one fatal casualty.
I asked Thé whether he remembered this. He did.
King of lamps
Imagine, you will be closing your hotel, but only temporarily, for a couple of months or so, in function of a thorough renovation. To discover several years later that your hotel never re-opened at all.
Prison valley
Dear prisoner inmates, welcome to 2012.
Prison valley an impressive web documentary by David Dufresne & Philippe Brault.
Create your own story.
Bed time
Approaching Newyear quite rapidly now. Last year I wished you a new mattress and this year it’s gonna be the complete works.
Astronaut Suicides
No more flights with the space shuttle. The end of the astronaut?
A 2-day (only) photo shoot by Neil Dacosta. Astronaut Suicides.
Vampire dump
Now Halloween is long gone, our favorite characters are simply dumped. We’ll meet again … next year.
Standpunten – Points of view
Standpunten is a quarterly forum organized by the ’centrum voor beeldexpressie’ at which three photographers get the opportunity to present their work. This event will take place on Friday December 9, at 20:00h in GC De Bosuil, Witherendreef 1, Overijse.
In this edition I will be talking about my series “theme park”.
Welcome.
