Released a few days ago on TED, Simon discusses and showcases her work. An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar attempts to reveal and direct light on facets of American culture and society rarely examined and The Innocents takes a look at the role photography itself has played with the wrongfully accused.
Posts Tagged ‘photography’
TED Talks: Taryn Simon photographs secret sites
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 by CrapLibrary of Congress: 1930s-40s in Color
Monday, April 27th, 2009 by Crap
Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Original Photo on Flickr
via the Steampunk Workshop, an amazing set of color photos on Flickr released by the Library of Congress. The photos use a type of color reversal film called Kodachrome, which is the first successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method.
It provides for a very crisp and saturated look that seemingly reinvigorates these past moments from the 1930-1940s by putting them through a more contemporary lens. It gives both a feeling of nostalgia as well as the sense that these images could have easily been taken today.
Miru Kim’s Naked City Spleen
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 by Crap
Miru Kim is an NY native who explores the urban metropolis for its long forgotten and abandoned spaces and photographs herself naked among them. There is something very surreal and intriguing about her work that almost portrays this alternate world of the past, that has seemingly been hidden away from the teeming urban masses above.
In context of film, I can’t help but be reminded of Tarkovsky’s Stalker, and the cyberpunk films of directors such as Shinya Tsukamoto when looking at her work. On a related note, TED Talks actually recently featured Kim in one of their regular Talks videos where she explains the intent and purpose behind her works. Both this and her official site are linked below.
