Exactitudes

Different social sets are united by their inherent dress codes.  Turn the volume up on your computer to hear the descriptions. Hilarity ensues...
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"Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years...they call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element. " 

Here are some good ones.
2. Casual Queers.
ideal son in law look alikes. respectable professional,  don't pig hole me homosexual. no screaming fairies.

3. Gabber Bitches
gabber following speed sluts.  white trash, comfortable camping chic.  skip the top when it gets hot. fly the flag with hair and shoe styling.

6. Teenagers
saturday night town club house wonder woman cute girly girly teenie boppers. dont label me. nag, nag, nag.

16. Manipulators
narcissistic workout energized supplement addicts. Already at seventeen  sculpting their bodies to perfection.  Boys can have tits too.

66. Babes
exhibitionist, naughty next door girls. love to wear micro bikinis to show off their silicon gems. birthday presents from their lovers.

92. Pinups
betty paige twenty-year olds from shortage artland. a burlesque mix of 40s and 50s vintage movie star style with a hint of rockabilly. pencil skirts, pointy tits and vargas inspired sexiness. they all know the pose. Whoops!

102. Hipsters
funky globalized unisex stylers with an ironic attitude. desensitized to information overload. its a subculture to which nobody claims to be part of.  rock and rave, and lets crash the ugliest sweater party.

David Maisel

I was super excited when I found out David Maisel was showing is Library of Dust @ Von Lintel Gallery in Chelsea.  I cant explain it better than he does via David Maisel.

"Sublimely beautiful, yet disquieting, the enigmatic photographs inLibrary of Dust are meditations on issues of matter and spirit."

Copper. Oxidization. Corrosion. Decay. ah beautiful decay.  makes my eyes flip. <3

“. . . these canisters hold the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. Oddly reminiscent of bullet casings, the canisters are literal gravesites. Reacting with their ash inhabitants, the canisters are now blooming with secondary minerals, articulating new metallic landscapes.”

— Geoff Manaugh, Contemporary

Photophilia: Wendy Bevan

sixties sex kitten

belle du nuit. bedroom eyes. big tease hair. sixties boudoir. love.

Louise Despont

"The possibility of recording time in pages — through a book of drawings is what led me to work in stop motion animation. Both the drawings and the films are about the passage of time and the possibility of the imperfect becoming whole through series. Hand drawing the variations on each print is very akin to the process of animating. With each print the drawing shifts and moves — and begins to come to life as a moving image."

Refractographs

"The interplay and the interaction of light on materials and surfaces has long been a fascination for me. As a research scientist and microscopist I used many optical and lighting techniques to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of materials. I am now exploring the world of caustics - those magical patterns that are formed when a beam of light travels through transparent textured materials."


These are refraction patterns or 'caustics' formed by a light beam passing through a shaped and textured plastic form. Coloured dyes were added to the clear plastic as it hardened adding further distortions to the shapes. The pattern formed by the light beam is captured directly on to 35mm film by removing the camera lens and putting the transparent object in its place. The film is digitally scanned for uploading. Please note these are not computer generated images but a true analogue of the way light is refracted by the objects I create.


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Gothic Clustered Embellishment

A dark embellishment of clustered multifaceted crystals, oversized jewels.