Saturday, March 10, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Untitled Film Stil
If you follow art at all you already know that Cindy Sherman takes pictures only of herself, but she always insists she doesn’t make self-portraits. True enough—it would be more accurate to say that for the past 35 years, she’s been producing a portrait of her times as they flow through the finely tuned instrument of her baroque psyche. Again and again in her spine-tingling retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City—it runs there from Feb. 26 to June 11, then travels to San Francisco, Minneapolis and Dallas—you also discover she’s made a portrait of you.
Growing up in a New York suburb, Sherman loved to play dress-up. In 1977, when she was 23 and just out of Buffalo State College, she started playing it with a vengeance. For three years, she photographed herself in costumes, wigs and settings that drew from the deep pool of movie images in which we’re all immersed from childhood. In what eventually grew to a series of 70 “Untitled Film Stills,” she took on the role of career girl, housewife, siren and woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Six years before Woody Allen got there, she became the Zelig of the collective unconscious, the heroine with a thousand faces.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Kellett Autogiro
Using Cierva and Pitcairn designs, the Kellett Autogiro Company of Philadelphia, PA, produced its own autogiros in the 1930s, which made use of a larger blade area, simplified landing gear, and wider fuselage to accommodate side-by-side seating. Interested in a slow flying aircraft that could observe enemy forces and direct artillery fire, both the American Army and Japanese War Office purchased Kellett autogiros in the 1930s. Thrilling armchair adventurers across the nation, Admiral Richard E. Byrd flew a Kellett K-3 on his Antarctic Expedition of 1933-1934.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
What really happened
What really happened…
From our previous post, this is the inaugural edition of a planned series of “Behind the Picture” galleries, LIFE.com offers some of the marvelous photographs Bourke-White made that have been long associated with the Great Depression — that LIFE actually published in the aftermath of the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937. In addition, a number of equally powerful, unpublished images from the same assignment — pictures that never made it into the magazine, but that nevertheless commemorate a great photojournalist, and the dignity of a people enduring what must have felt, at the time, like an age of unending troubles.
(read more here)
Sunday, March 4, 2012
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