Vintage camera poster
Line drawings of 14 vintage cameras from around the world. By designer Rob Hunting in Chicago. The poster is 24” x 26” and was hand-screened on French paper. Available now from Joanna Goddard’s Ebay store.
Beijing: residual vs icon
Bert de Muynck’s photos of a city in transition.
Sex in the Park
WHY are the Japanese couples in Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs having sex outdoors? Was 1970s Tokyo so crowded, its apartments so small, that they were forced to seek privacy in public parks at night? And what about those peeping toms? Are the couples as oblivious as they seem to the gawkers trespassing on their nocturnal intimacy?
If the social phenomena captured in these photographs seem distinctly linked to Japanese culture, Mr. Yoshiyuki’s images of voyeurs reverberate well beyond it. Viewing his pictures means that you too are looking at activities not meant to be seen. We line up right behind the photographer, surreptitiously watching the peeping toms who are secretly watching the couples. Voyeurism is us.
The series, titled “The Park,? is on view at Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea, the first time the photographs have been exhibited since 1979, when they were introduced at Komai Gallery in Tokyo. For that show the pictures were blown up to life size, the gallery lights were turned off, and each visitor was given a flashlight. Mr. Yoshiyuki wanted to reconstruct the darkness of the park. “I wanted people to look at the bodies an inch at a time,? he has said. [Via “Sex in the Park, and it’s Sneaky Spectators”,NY Times]
Sisley and Terry Richardson
Back to our originally scheduled programming—time to get a break from bunk ass Bush and his cronies. This is the new ad campaign from Sisley and photographer Terry Richardson.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Terry Richardson (1965–) is a noted photographer. He has been producing work since the late 1980s, and has shot advertisements for numerous fashion designers, including Gucci, Levi’s, Hugo Boss, Anna Molinari, Baby Phat, and Matsuda. In addition to advertisement work, Richardson has also shot editorial photographs for a wide array of magazines, including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, The Face, and Dazed & Confused. He is the son of fashion photographer Bob Richardson.
Richardson’s published output is not limited to the contractual work listed above – the full body of his photography can be amusing, bizarre, and shocking to most. Much of it contains sexual elements of a kind not ordinarily seen in mainstream media. His trademark style is notably raw, direct, and amateurish, though he is not an amateur. A great deal of his photography can be viewed on his website.
Richardson also takes some topless shots of Kate Moss, while he’s nude. Does he think this gets her excited?
