artphotocollector:

“It (taking photographs) is all about longing…without longing—no pictures at all.”  —Anders Petersen

One of the nicest gifts I received this year is Anders Petersen’s latest monograph, ”Soho.” In collaboration with London’s noted Photographers’ Gallery and Mack Books, Petersen was given a four-week residency last year to shoot images of an area in London known for many things to many people. For Petersen, it was an opportunity to return to a place he’d known in the 70’s and could re-discover, thirty years later, through the lens.

While there are many impressive photographers working today, Anders Petersen is one of the finest. I am consistently astonished at the power of his photographs. His ability to infuse images with a poetic gaze that senses fragility and yearns for Beauty is the mark of an artist in love with his craft, and more importantly, in love with people. I can keep returning to his work and always find something deeper, more resonant. 

For a peek inside the book here’s a video. But I recommend discovering his work, first hand, in print. Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe in the magic of the photobook. —Lane Nevares

thenoiseinme:

Anders Petersen

endspielerin:

© Anders Petersen

de-salva:

Fotó: Anders Petersen: de la série “Saint Etienne, 2005” © Anders Petersen / VU’La Galerie

Anders Petersen: http://www.anderspetersen.se/biography/

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tsekit:

Anders Petersen

7knotwind:

ARNE SVENSON | +
The Neighbors

via: lustik / kateoplis: New Yorkers ‘furious’ over Arne Svenson’s work

In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.

In all the photos, taken by New York City artist Arne Svenson from his second-floor apartment, the faces are obscured or not shown. The people are unidentifiable.

But the residents of a glass-walled luxury residential building across the street had no idea they were being photographed and they never consented to being subjects for the works of art that are now on display — and for sale — in a Manhattan gallery. (LSJ.com)

halogenic:

Cecil Beaton, Vogue (1936)

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la-brancaro:

Josef Sudek

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bohemea:

Marina Abramovic by Jean Baptiste Mondino

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retroadv:

Uma Thurman - Photographed by Michael Appleton

Photographic Collection 6 […more Images]

actegratuit:

Jurga Luca Art

thecamhouston:

Stills from Bill Viola, Chot El-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat), 1979. Video Tape, 28:00 minutes.

(via lonehands)

untitled by alison scarpulla on Flickr.