Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 10

fer1972:Paintings by Hanna Ilczyszyn

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Paintings by Hanna Ilczyszyn

artchipel:Christopher Payne - Asylum (2002-2008)

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Christopher Payne - Asylum (2002-2008)

artchipel:Christopher Payne (USA) - Textiles...

Photographer Christopher Payne's Textile Industry photography


Photographer Christopher Payne's Textile Industry photography


Photographer Christopher Payne's Textile Industry photography


Photographer Christopher Payne's Textile Industry photography


Photographer Christopher Payne's Textile Industry photography

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Christopher Payne (USA) - Textiles (2010-2014)

Christopher Payne specializes in the documentation of America’s vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. Trained as an architect, he is fascinated by how things are purposefully designed and constructed, and how they work. His first book, New York’s Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway, offered dramatic, rare views of the behemoth machines that are hidden behind modest facades in New York City. His second book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, which includes an essay by the renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, was the result of a seven-year survey of America’s vast and largely shuttered state mental institutions. Payne’s forthcoming book, North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City, explores an uninhabited island of ruins in the East River. Payne’s photographs invoke the former grandeur of the site over different seasons, capturing hints of buried streets and infrastructure now reclaimed by nature, while also offering a unique glimpse into a city’s future without people.

Payne’s recent work, including a series in progress on the American textile industry, has veered away from the documentation of the obsolete towards a celebration of craftsmanship and small-scale manufacturing that are persevering in the face of global competition and evolutions in industrial processes. Nearing completion is One Steinway Place, a tour through the famous Steinway & Sons piano factory in Astoria, Queens. Here a team of skilled workers creates exquisite instruments considered to be some of the finest in the world. Payne captures moments of the choreographies of production and assembly, and inspects the parts and pieces of the instruments that will never be visible outside of the factory, telling a story of intricacy, precision, and care he fears is becoming all too rare in the American workplace.

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[more Christopher Payne | artist found at photojojo]

fer1972:Book-Cut Artworks by Thomas Allen

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Book-Cut Artworks by Thomas Allen

artchipel:Sophie Gamand (France/USA) - Wet dogSophie Gamand...

French photographer Sophie Gamand's Wet dog


French photographer Sophie Gamand's Wet dog


French photographer Sophie Gamand's Wet dog


French photographer Sophie Gamand's Wet dog


French photographer Sophie Gamand's Wet dog

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Sophie Gamand (France/USA) - Wet dog

Sophie Gamand is a French photographer living and working in New York. Since 2010, Gamand’s photography explores the complex dynamics of the relationship between dogs and humans. With both a documentary and fine-art approaches, she questions the place that dogs occupy in the human society. Her series Wet Dog showcases portraits of dogs photographed during their least favorite activity: bath time. Exposing the dogs at a vulnerable moment, Gamand is able to capture their wide range of expressions. She believes dogs are more than animals and have acquired a status of persona. They mirror humans and the bond we have developed with them says a lot about our own solitude and social challenges. Gamand also donates photography time and expertise to animal charities and shelters. 

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[more Sophie Gamand | artist found via Colossal]

fer1972:It came drom the Deep: Photographs of Deep Sea...

fer1972:

It came drom the Deep: Photographs of Deep Sea Creatures by David Shale

"One of the main reasons I read—and definitely why I write—is to try to see the world through someone..."

“One of the main reasons I read—and definitely why I write—is to try to see the world through someone else’s eyes. To try to imagine what life is like for someone who’s different from myself. And because writing entails a great deal of imaginative generosity, I almost think I’m a better person when I’m writing than I am in life. I’m forced into having empathy for everyone—even someone who I’d normally be upset with, or feel wronged by. I don’t feel like I’m allowed to dismiss any character as a writer, almost no matter what they do. All the energy goes towards trying to understand them. And the moment a character becomes real to me, and their experience becomes real to me, the writing itself almost feels like method acting. When I’m writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me—they’re responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I’m in, and I think about their responses constantly. This feeling of living alongside a character is one of the most gratifying things about writing, and definitely one of the reasons I do it.”

- Molly Antopol (via mttbll)

"When you write fiction, you’ll start a sentence using something in your experience as a departure..."

“"When you write fiction, you’ll start a sentence using something in your experience as a departure point, but before the sentence has finished—if it’s a good sentence—it will have taken you to a new place…"”

- Boris Fishman (via publishersweekly)

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"Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away..."

“Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.”

- Gustave Flaubert, from Intimate Notebook 1840-1841 (via odetofemininity)