Landon Metz
Grand (IV), 2011
Enamel on canvas
16 x 20 inches
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Franz Kline “Untitled II” (1952)
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Holy Ghost Vol.5 available now
A5 | 60 pages | perfect bound
Printed on 120gsm stock
Edition of 100
Our fifth volume brings together a larger selection of photographers than our previous books. The aim is to explore and navigate through a new visual language of photography that we have come into contact with over the past year.
Featuring: Cody Cobb, Liam Prior,
Tim Barber, Nicolas Poillot, Anna Jay,
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My window installation for Printed Matter
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My first solo show opening this Friday at Carlos/Ishikawa in London
Private View on the 15th from 6-9pm (with possible after party if things get steamy)
See you soon!
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Sunday Thoughts
March 11, 2012
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Jan. 30, 1998: Marilyn Lane tries to shut the door as a large wave rushes into her Solimar Beach home in Ventura County. Eleven Ventura County beach homes were damaged by the combination of 15-foot tidal swells and a rainstorm.
View 130 photos for The Times’ 130th birthday on Framework.
Photo credit: Alan Hagman / Los Angeles Times
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Sentences on Photography by Torbjorn Rodland
1. The muteness of a photograph matters as much as its ability to speak.
2. The juxtaposition of photographs matters as much as the muteness of each.
3. All photography flattens. Objectification is inescapable.
4. Photography cannot secure the integrity of its subject any more than it can satisfy the need to touch or taste.
5. Good ideas are easily bungled.
6. Banal ideas can be rescued by personal investment and beautiful execution.
7. Lacking an appealing surface, a photograph should depict surfaces appealingly.
8. A photograph that refuses to market anything but its own complexities is perverse. Perversion is bliss.
9. A backlit object is a pregnant object.
10. To disregard symbols is to disregard a part of human perception.
11. Photography may employ tools and characteristics of reportage without being reportage.
12. The only photojournalistic images that remain interesting are the ones that produce or evoke myths.
13. A photographer in doubt will get better results than a photographer caught up in the freedom of irony.
14. The aestheticizing eye is a distant eye. The melancholic eye is a distant eye. The ironic eye is a distant eye.
15. One challenge in photography is to outdistance distance. Immersion is key.
16. Irony may be applied in homeopathic doses.
17. A lyrical photograph should be aware of its absurdity. Lyricism grows from awareness.
18. For the photographer, everyone and everything is a model, including the photograph itself.
19. The photography characterized by these sentences is informed by conceptual art.
20. The photography characterized by these sentences is not conceptual photography.
( thanks Maryanne )