PostArctica: Lucas Samaras

Was going through some old camera equipment and came across some  Polaroid SX-70 cameras and other stuff and thought of Lucas Samaras and his extensive Polaroid work. Much of the work involves scratching, rubbing, or otherwise manipulating the film just after exposure while the emulsion is still wet and soft.

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PostArctica: Nina Berman – Fracking

Methane flaring from gas-drilling wellsNina Berman/NOOR This Is What Fracking Really Looks Like by David Rosenberg Photographer Nina Berman had just started focusing on climate and environmental issues when she read an article about fracking and its connection to the possible contamination of New York City’s drinking water. Berman resides

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PostArctica: Friedlander’s Car Windows

A good friend of mine recently showed me some photographs she took from an airplane window  and the window frame was included in many shots and it, of course, reminded me of Lee Friedlander’s Hassleblad pictures from inside his car. This last one is particularly devastating. A sculpted cactus, in

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PostArctica: Adrift

I have yet to see anything that so sublimely and elegantly shows how mankind and nature can cohabit this planet, yet we continue to lay a massive pounding on the earth, oblivious to the wreckage, as we struggle blindly through the fog of our own heads and hearts. ADRIFT It

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PostArctica: Everybody Street.

Reblogged from greyproductionblog: “Everybody Street” illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular

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PostArctica: Lisa Ross “After Night”

Having previously photographed ritual objects and burial sites  of the Uyghur people of Western China in the series, Living Shrines, she has created a new series that documents the surprising number of beds to be found, apparently in the middle of nowhere, in the landscape outside of the Uyghur community.

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