Langhorne Slim to play in lancaster

November 20th at the Chameleon Club

Fabulous Five

Neil Pardington - his work in the series The Clinic shows the sterile environment of hospitals and the idea of what hospitals are supposed to be like.

Operating Theatre #1 2003LED / C-Print

Matt Siber - Matt takes any word identification a person has with an object, removes it from the picture, forcing the viewer to rely solely on color, shape, and form. He then adds the text in a new document, extracting the color, shape and form, repeating the identification process without the image.

Untitled 3 2002 from The Untitled Project

Martin Buday - In his Blandscape series, he shows of the bland, boring, and uneventful landscapes people have. This photograph is one of my favorites due to the uses of bright color and strategic placement of houses and the picnic table.

The Picnic Table Hattaras Island, NC 2003 from the Blandscape series

Jen Davis - Her work is awesome!! She photographs herself, showing what it is like to be a plus sized woman in today's world. Her fantasy portraits show her fantasies: what it's like to be with a man in a "normal" relationship.

Fantasy no. 2 2005 from the series Self-Portraits

Beth Yarnelle Edwards - Beth shows off examples of suburban living, for those who don't live it, and capture it in the most perfect way. Every aspect of her photographs are detailed, and yet slightly humorous.

From the series suburban dreams


All of these photographers are considered contemporary by their use of subject. All subjects pertain to the contemporary world, all deal with issues that a person today could understand to the fullest.

5

Trish Morrisssey

By referencing and parodying old norms of vernacular photography it becomes something completely new.


Eve Fowler

This photographer deals with many cultural issues of femininity, masculinity, and variances in sexuality.


Whitney Hubbs

After so much exposure to technologically influenced and digitally altered photography in art, and the culture at large; I feel a lo-fi approach is refreshing and in a strange way, new. That is within the context of modern photography as a whole.


Abe Morell

He has taken one of the oldest photographic techniques and by implementing color has composed a contemporary take on the method of the camera obscura.



Sarah Kalagvano

Referencing photographs of centerfolds within this photograph creates an awkwardness between the subject and her surroundings.

5 photos

Julia fullerton
Playful use of scale. Contemporary photography is often violent and disorienting.

luke gilford
Abstracted oil slick looks like nebula. Non representational photography all the rage lately.


aaron gustafson
Found photograph scanned. (photo of a photo). Brings up idea of fading memory and photo as artifact. Half destroyed quality calls attention to the fragility of such memories/arifacts.


Bernis earle
unusual pigment print looks like mixed media. no mention of it though. must be photoshopped. not sure. Unusual use of black blob as ominous dark cloud
has psychological impact. strange.


bettina pousttchi

high contrast security camera like image. big brother imagery calls attention to reduced privacy in contemporary society.

Five Photographers

Meiko Takechi Arquillos is a photographer who enjoys photographing children and pays attention to the smallest detail. 

Oliver Laude; I enjoy the colors and the face on opposition you're forced  to take when looking at his photographs. 

Noah Webb; I like the way he pays attention to the modern details in peoples environments 

Tim Davis is modern because in his series 'The New Antiquity' he focus' on how old land marks and historical items are sheltered or even altered by modern marvels. 

Elena Dorfman touches on some more 'modern' subjects and often becomes part of a world through her photographs. 

five

Andrew Phelps- Higley

is about the change from a small farm town to the suberbs of the greater Phoenix area in Arizona. i like the simplicity of the photos

Alexis Pike Claimed landscape
http://www.alexispike.com/claimed_landscape.html#11
this is about people recreating the lost natural landscape

Jessica Todd Harper Interior Exposure

i like the un-staged quality the photographs have

Candida Hofer Architecture of Absence


i like how she uses the emptiness of the space with the natural light to create an interesting image

and Amy Stein Halloween in Harlem

Because we just saw domesticated at clam art. I like how she has the contrast of the kid in costumes and the city background.

five photographs

Alison Brady



Brian Ulrich from series called "Thrift"



Dina Kantor from series "out of context"



Adam Hestor from his series "Travel"



Katie Shapiro from her series "a(part)/together"


All considered contemporary photography because they all still shoot until this day with a certain, specific style and composition that can be related to other photographer's images. They are all clean, simple and straightforward photographs.

Five

johann ryno de wet work is to capture what he feels in a scene. Working in both the darkroom and on the computer.

jonas bendiksen most know for being a magnum photographer. His work called "satellites" was part of a 7 year trip of the Former Soviet Union.

song chao Used to work as a miner before taking up photography. He likes to take images of his peers working.

David Shalliol Very interesting night photography. His Detroit series has some great work in it as well.

Bianca Brunner's Limbo Series rocks, her work can be seen in the book "Re Generation"

Each photographer can be considerd contemporary. All working in the same period of time. Each having a great understanding of the camera.

Fluid

Fantastic Installation work by Claire Morgan.

check it out! Here

Jill Greenberg's work with crying babies is a huge fav. I personally don't find anything inhumane about them, unlike some commenters about her work. They show pure, raw emotion of what it's like to be alittle kid.









Jan Von Holleben's work from the past 2 years excites me. His photographs are all about kids and their imaginations. He has done multiple bodies of work but the 2 that I just <3<3<3>

"The Pirate Ship" from Journey to Everywhere, 2009

"The Shoe" from Journey to Everywhere, 2009

"The Ghost Busters" from Dreams of Flying, '02-'09

"The Astronauts" from Dreams of Flying, 02'-09'

parry gripp

Ryan Trecartin

"Tommy-chat Just E-mailed Me" . 2006
© Ryan Trecartin

Trecartin describes (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me) as a "narrative video short that takes place inside and outside of an e-mail." Trecartin's intense visualization of electronic communication is inhabited by a cast of stylized characters: Pam, a Jewish lesbian librarian with a screaming baby in an ultra-modern hotel room; Tammy and Beth, who live in an apartment filled with installation art; and Tommy, who is seen in a secluded lake house in the woods. Pam, Tommy and Tammy are all played by Trecartin, who, wearing his signature make-up, jumps back and forth between male and female roles.

Totally self-absorbed and equipped with vestigial attention spans, the characters are constantly communicating with one another on the phone or online. Their e-mail exchanges and Internet searches are channeled into bright animations that intersect with the "real world" locations. The story moves from person to person like a browser surfing through Web pages. Engrossed in manic electronic interactions, the characters become increasingly isolated and solipsistic.

inspiration

STANLEY GREENBERG

the sandcastles work is fun too but i like the architecture series the best

Porcupine tree

Porcupine tree-fear of a blank planet
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Sep 26 2009 PHILADELPHIA, USA: Electric Factory

Californiaaaaaa...

These are some Holga images I took while briefly out in California this summer. My trip entailed not only my first time flying, but my furthest trip west of Harrisburg. I know, I'm sheltered. Regardless it was absolutely beautiful and the bluest skies I have ever seen.


-Brush Fire

-Back road

-Reservoir

-Hotel Room

inspirations

Lise Sarfati and her photograph from the series "She" inspires me for my senior thesis.




Erwin Olaf mixes photojournalism with studio photography. This photograph is from his series called "Mature".

crawling up the walls

Muto video by BLU

Port-a-Potty Prank

classic

-aj

Get in the Swing of things

Rocks Jen