on a date with bill bedenstab

‘Smile please’, no date. London. (left) ‘Each...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:15:00 +0000

'Smile please', no date.

Each star is 6ft across, no date.

‘Smile please’, no date. London. (left)

‘Each star is 6ft across. This building is the assembly point for the Space Schuttle(sic).’, no date. London. (right)

‘off Main Street Disneyworld’, no date. London.

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‘off Main Street Disneyworld’, no date. London.

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Postcard, no date. London.

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Postcard, no date. London.

Arc de Triomphe & view of Paris from Eiffel Tower - Feb 76

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:05:23 +0000

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Arc de Triomphe

Arc de Triomphe & view of Paris from Eiffel Tower - Feb 76

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No title, no date. Brighton.

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‘Alfred Webb’, no date. London.

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‘Alfred Webb’, no date. London.

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Handsome photo booth stranger. Not title, no date. London.

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Handsome photo booth stranger. Not title, no date. London.

Joni Sternbach takes pictures of surfers and the ocean using the...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:51:00 +0000

Joni Sternbach takes pictures of surfers and the ocean using the old-school method of wet-plate collodion.

Her statement:

“SurfLand is an ongoing project of contemporary portraits of surfers created using the historic wet-plate collodion process. The photographs are a unique blending of subject matter and photographic technique. Using the instantaneous wet-plate collodion process, I am creating one-of-a-kind tintypes that are imbued with a feeling of ambiguity, timelessness and mystery.

Landscapes, seascapes, and the human imprint on these views has been my focus. Returning year after year to the same location has led me to examine the juncture between land and sea, exploring subject matter in a constant state of transition. Surfers are an integral part of this liminal state. I am fascinated by the physical and poetic way that they inhabit America’s watery landscapes..

I work with a large-format camera and wet process that must be prepared and developed on location. The procedure is elaborate and fortunately draws spectators as well as entices new subjects. Other subjects have found their way to me via surf websites, pro shops, and word-of-mouth. Once on location I compose carefully before sensitizing the plate. The very nature of collodion is spontaneous and unpredictable. It is precisely the raw quality of the process that suits the subject matter, giving it a distinctive appearance and echoing important traditions of nineteenth-century anthropological photography.

The photographs were shot on both coasts: Montauk’s Ditch Plains and Rhode Island on the East Coast as well as Malibu, Del Mar and Rincon beaches in California. SurfLand is a chronicle and celebration of these fascinating denizens of regional surf spots across the nation..”

You can buy Joni’s book via photoeye

Watch an interview with Joni here

Vivian Maier (1926-2009) never known to the world as a...

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:04:00 +0000

Vivian Maier (1926-2009) never known to the world as a photographer and her photos were never shown publicly, in fact many of her films were not even developed. UNTIL John Maloof bought a box of negatives from her repossessed storage locker at a 2008 auction.

The beauty and greatness of her work is undeniable!

Watch the Chicago Tonight clip here

“Each picture has its own private magic, but taken in sequence,...

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:24:00 +0000

“Each picture has its own private magic, but taken in sequence, gathered together as they are, they become a phantom community, an immersive haunted universe filled with family grotesques, nightmarish with their melting cartoon heads. Bone chimeras, diabolical phantoms, mutant children posing with the shrouded dead, delinquent boys in corpse and bat drag, dwarf crones holding black balloons, lonely wraiths and strays…” - Ossian Brown

This selection of found photographs are beautiful, eerie, scary, and naturally otherworldly. Ossian Brown’s collection of anonymous Halloween photographs also functions as a very important record of cultural traditions.

With a foreword by the ringmaster of freak goth cinema, David Lynch.

Haunted Air - A Collection of Anonymous Halloween Photographs America c.1875 - 1955, by Ossian Brown, published by Jonathan Cape (Random House)

My granny. Taken by my dad. 70’s. Sweden.

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:05:20 +0000

My granny. Taken by my dad. 70’s. Sweden.

Taken by my mum. June 1973. Age 19. North of Sweden.

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:02:00 +0000

Taken by my mum. June 1973. Age 19. North of Sweden.

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No title, no date. Berlin.

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No title, no date. Berlin.

No title, no date. Warsaw.

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No title, no date. Warsaw.