Jane Fonda in Malibu taken from Dennis Hopper’s new book Photographs 1961-1967 Published by Taschen and limited to 1,500 copies each signed by the artist.
While I entirely missed Lisa Jack’s photography exhibition last August at the M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, I am grateful that the images are still up on the gallery’s website. Her recent exhibition titled “Barack Obama: The Freshman” presents a series of enchanting images of a young Barack in his twenties, poised and animated during a casual photoshoot at a small apartment in Los Angeles.
“Now a psychology professor and therapist, in 1980 Lisa jack was an aspiring photographer at Occidental College in Los Angeles and was in desperate need of a model. It was recommended that she take photographs of a young freshman, who later transferred to Columbia University in New York, by the name of Barry. He posed willingly, his legendary future as the first multiracial African-American President of the United States unbeknownst to all. After a brief afternoon photography session, these images remained hidden from the public for twenty-eight years, until Jack decided to search for them as a result of a dare. This exhibition made it possible for these images to be printed and displayed for the first time.”
via Dossier Journal
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London based photographer James Reynolds shot a series detailing the last meals of Death Row prisoners before their execution. Requests include KFC, fries and baked beans, 6 bottle Cokes and a saltine, and an onion with a side of Extra gum.
Series here.
Really, nothing could’ve prepared me for Barbara Nitke’s “Fine Arts” section. All I could possibly think was “why didn’t I find this sooner?”
There are 5 different sets: American Ecstasy, Resurrection, Kiss of Fire, Illuminata, and Polysexuals. Most are highly pornographic. If you have a weak stomach, don’t look, you really can’t un-see some of this stuff (this is more in reference to clicking on “rest of…”, I posted the tamer pictures).
These photos can range from great, to grotesque, to laughable, depending how you want to look at them. However they may be seen, on a more serious note, they are a great example of the multitude of sexual preferences, perversions to some, and our sense of taboo.
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The Day19ers are having a photo party in SF and it looks fantastic. BxB recommended viewing.
Pulp September 16th, 2009
Lawerence, Kansas based photographer/director Neil Krug is working on a new project titled “Pulp” which is “an upcoming photo book of psychedelic images made to look like old school paperback covers. The book features supermodel Joni Harbeck exclusively as the heroine in a world of fabricated dramas. Everything in the book has been photographed with expired polaroid film to put across the mood of looking at a beautifully beat to hell dusty LP cover.”
Full interview at Fecal Face.
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This was the fruits of five minutes and a Google image search for “Mrs.Parker.”
Click on this photo for further enlightenment. You might find Nirvana.
Whoever said print ads were dead? American Apparel advertising has certainly raised a few eyebrows and downright offended others, but one thing is clear, that the clothing manufacturing giant has created an almost cult like following for their ads that hasn’t been seen since Guess or Calvin Klein. Find a sample of some of the most slutiest ads after the jump, or view all 50 compiled by Style Crave here.
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