Archive for December, 2009

  © Lee Friedlander     A show of legendary photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is up at the Janet Borden Gallery in Soho. While not the most amazing collection of the artist’s work, the show does an excellent job of exemplifying Friedlander’s  style, which I’ve always interpreted as a mixture of obsession, recreation, and the mundane. [...]

Today our featured artist is Taylor Poulin, who has this to say about her Project Milk Sisters:    “2,000 years ago, many cultures around the world were worshipping female deities. They looked to them for protection, comfort, strength, warmth and fertility. The Lithuanian goddess Gabija, lit the fires in hearths to warm the body and [...]

Here are some images by famous Czech photographers whom I have learned about during my stay here…I am going to miss this place!   © František Drtikol   © Jaromír Funke   © Helena Wilsonová   © Tono Stano   © Josef Sudek

With the Fall semester coming to a close, it’s time to look to the Spring and start getting excited for the Photography and Imaging BFA Thesis Shows! We at the ISO blog want to take the opportunity to introduce some of the Senior artists who will be showing, and hopefully we can create some buzz [...]

Currently playing at Cinema Village at 22 East 12th Street is The Bicycle Thief, a 1948 Italian film. Hailed to be one of the greatest films of all time, The Bicycle Thief is certainly a motion picture well beyond its time. The struggles of the main character, emphasized by the shadowy cinemotophgraphy and expansive, winding [...]

In the first issue of ISO Magazine I interviewed the then recently graduated Robert Sukrachand about his senior thesis “74th and Roosevelt.” Since that time the project has grown tremendously and is now being shown at 721. The main body of work is on the 8th floor but you can see 3 large prints in [...]

Helena Wilsonová is a Czech photographer whose work is currently on display at the Josef Sudek Gallery in Prague. This exhibition of photographs of underground life in Prague in the 1960s and 70s is perfectly complemented by the one-room, cave-like gallery in which the work is displayed. This exhibition depicts “parallel culture”–the lives of dissidents and [...]

The Staley-Wise gallery’s current show “Women” is a really interesting selection of Lillian Bassman Photographs that I highly recommend checking out. Bassman is a female fashion photographer who is well known for working at Harper’s Bazaar with Alexey Brodovitch in the 1950′s and 60′s. What’s most interesting about this show is that the photographs were [...]