I just ordered my copy of the book, Dark Night of the Soul, a project which combines the talent of powerhouses, Danger Mouse (Brian Burton), Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous), and David Lynch. This 100+ page, 2-pound book contains Lynch’s eerie, beautiful photographs.
The music album that accompanies the book features contributions from the Shins’ James Mercer, the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas, the Flaming Lips and Iggy Pop. The entire album is streamed at NPR’s site.
On the Street, is the result of 2 years of walking and talking with and photographing the people who call the streets of Chicago their home. Many, I have come to know by name and I still see and talk with them often. Others come and go like ghosts and I never knew their names.
Light tests are rarely shown and usually feature assistants posing with calibration charts. Luke Lanter of Capture This wanted to share his goofy, behind-the-scene test shots and started the blog, Light Test.com. Most of the photographs on this site come directly from the photographers.
Dina Goldstein is best known for her photograph series—The Gaza Strip, The Trackrecord Project, and David Series. Her most recent photograph series, Fallen Princesses, takes a look Disney fairy tales striped of their happy endings.
These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The ‘…happily ever after’ is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.
As a young girl, growing up abroad, I was not exposed to Fairy tales. These new discoveries lead to my fascination with the origins of Fairy tales. I explored the original brothers Grimm’s stories and found that they have very dark and sometimes gruesome aspects, many of which were changed by Disney. I began to imagine Disney’s perfect Princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me, such as illness, addiction, and self-image issues.
–Dina Goldstein
Belle from The Beauty and the Beast under the knife
Rapunzel in chemo
Snow White and her new brood
A still slumbering Sleeping Beauty has been moved into Prince Charming’s senior’s home
Desiree Dolron is a photographer hailing from Haarlem, Netherlands. In her ongoing portrait series, Xteriors, she pays homage of the Flemish Primitives and Johannes Vermeer. Her photographs can be viewed at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
I got bored and stole one of Penguin’s magazines to browse through. As I leafed though the pages, I immediately stopped when I reached a spread of alluring, seductive typography work by Sean Freeman. I quickly got sucked in by his illustration and photography work, too. Take a look.
