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Photographer John Moore on ‘Epic’ Libya Battles, Arab World Revolutions

25 Mar

Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he’s done extended stints in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Mexico and Nicaragua and elsewhere in the last 20 years.

Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya – might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out of Benghazi, Libya en route back to his home in Denver.

Blonde in the city

24 Mar


Marilyn Monroe in 1955

Marilyn Monroe: probably the most celebrated of all actresses, a bombshell extraordinaire whose countless adoring fans included paramours Arthur Miller and JFK. And yet, her life story is an early example of the tragic consequences of fame, marked by unhappy marriages, drug addictions and frequent attempts to define herself as a serious artist. These images of Monroe by Ed Feingersh, recently uncovered by photography collector Michael Ochs, offer an unusually intimate portrait of the Hollywood icon during her 1955 move to New York, where she came to train at the Lee Strasberg Actors Studio. Relaxed and candid, they reveal the lonely side of Monroe, recently divorced from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and desperately seeking new inspiration.

Marilyn made only 30 films in her lifetime, but her legendary status and mysticism will remain with film history forever.

“The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to…I don’t know…block the grimness. The whole world seemed sort of closed to me…(I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend-game.”
Marilyn Monroe

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Bad Dolls

24 Mar

Committed to chronicling the more sinister side of barbie’s picturesque life, self-taught photographer mariel clayton’s body of work is a collection of images depicting the doll as an aggressor of a number of gory scenarios.

Complemented with tongue-in-cheek titles, the outlandishly gruesome images often include ken, barbie’s on-and-off-again boyfriend, in the unfortunate position of victim: decapitated with a box of chocolate in hand, hung upside down and drained of his blood, scrubbing the floor with a sponge while naked on a leash, and many other unlucky roles.



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Aurora

23 Mar


Filmmaker Terje Sorgjerd spent an entire week capturing one of the biggest Aurora Borealis in recent times. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, the captivating showcase was filmed during temperatures around -25 Celsius which surely made for a chilly experience but a beautiful one nonetheless. Enjoy!
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Malibu Surfrider Beach Photo

23 Mar

“Inside Out” Project in Tunisia

20 Mar

Making good on his TED Conference wish, French street artist JR is using his craft to make a difference in the world with his “Inside Out” project. Encouraging people from around the globe to send in photos of themselves, JR has printed these photos and is now pasting them in various locations. JR’s first destination was Tunisia where he has covered a wall with photos of the people in the very same spot where a portrait of Ben Ali was kept. The symbolic gesture serves as a testament to the power of art, giving some hope for the future to the people of Tunisia.
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Bangkok wired

15 Mar

all images © Thomas kalak

A new exhibition from the german photographer Thomas Kalak at the Picasso Art Museum in Münster features his work documenting the electricity and telecommunications cables that appear omnipresent in Bangkok. The cables spread into the furthermost corners of the city and grow into even the smallest kitchen to let them partake in the state-of-the-art power supply and technology. the photographs offer a terrifying, but also fascinating portrait of a system that seems to have emerged independent of any consideration of the living space of people while visually guiding the flows of energy that keep the city alive.

Kalak’s documentary view finds expression in an unfalsified snapshot aesthetic that puts what one sees in the center of attention and tackles an aspect of everyday culture, providing a window into life in this city. The exhibition is open from march 19 through july 3, 2011 and coincides with the publishing of a book of the entire series documenting 10 years of the project.

Thomas Kalak
Picasso Art Museum, Münster
march 19 – July 3, 2011

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Life is too short for the wrong job.

15 Mar


One of the print ads for jobsintown’s ‘life is too short for the wrong job’ campaign a new video commercial released by German employment website “jobsintown” joins the company’s playful visual representations of their slogan ‘life is too short for the wrong job’. The company’s four-year print ad campaign, designed by scholz & friends berlin, feature human workers powering everyday machines: a hardworking woman lives within every laundromat machine, scrubbing at your clothes, and an Elvis impersonator spends his workday in each jukebox you encounter. Taking a different approach to the same slogan, the video commercial was created by grabarz & partner and depicts a fisherman whose true calling lies outside of his current profession.


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K cupcakes at COLETTE party

11 Mar

Real version of up

8 Mar


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