Archive for February, 2010

Hello everyone! It’s a pleasure to meet you all. I’m Nicole, a freshman in the Film program, and I’m quite excited to be making my inaugural post for ISO. As of right now, I’m thinking I want to focus largely on Surrealism in Photography and Cinematography. So, here we go. Hausu (1977) is a truly remarkable Japanese [...]

I recently found out about a photographer named Kendrick Brinson through a slideshow on the New York Times photo blog, Lens.  http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/showcase-125/ This slideshow, entitled, “Too Busy For Leisure,” shows senior citizens engaging in wacky and adorable activities, such as cheerleading and line dancing. There is something comical, and yet respectful about Brinson’s images. I [...]

Hello out there, Kris Nolte here with my ISO blog debut! Excited to be on board. So you have a little taste of what to expect, some photographic interests include: family albums, flight, skies and seas, mass media imagery, musicians, food, candids, meta-tourism, found photos, and on… To start out, my favorite photo lately comes [...]

Seabear-”I’ll build you a fire” Seabear: i´ll build you a fire from morr music on Vimeo.

All I will share about this show is the press release and my word that it is easily one of the most memorable art shows I’ve seen  in the last three years. “Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with [...]

“Behind the Back of the Gods” – László Moholy-Nagy. 1928 ©2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Anna Duensing is a freshman at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, concentrating in Storytelling and Historiography. For Anna, photography is one way of storytelling. “I love portraits; I LOVE people; I think faces are the most interesting thing in the world.” Anna went on to describe how she especially likes to shoot portraits of [...]

This one: It’s called The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers. It stars Keira Knightley. And that’s all IMDb will tell me. But it sure looks cool.

Meredith Rom’s project is a collection of portraits inspired by classical styles, this is her artist statement for ” The Age of Glamour” : “Edward Steichen has been described as a picture maker, not a picture taker.  And as he is one of my influences, I work in a similar style.  The photograph begins as [...]

Less than a week till the Show TWO opening, so I hope you’re all planning to attend! Today we wanted to share the work of Lili Holzer-Glier who has provide us with the artist statement for her project “Falls” “For the last five years I have been photographing the industry, architecture, recreational activities, and people [...]