10.21.2008
Takashi Homma -Tokyo
Aperture released a beautifully edited book this past spring by Japanese photographer Takashi Homma. Homma's portraits of Japanese youth in this book are sensitive and restrained. In addition, the cityscapes, architecture, interiors and objects all cohere beautifully to create a welcome portrait of contemporary Tokyo. The book is paperback and printed on beautiful matt paper.
10.15.2008
10.14.2008
Richard Renaldi for Barack Obama
Latest High Bid by Gordon- $750.00 - Wednesday October 15 -7:49 PM
I was very excited by the Art for Obama Auction that I learned about recently and immediately I wanted to participate by donating one of my photographs. After I inquired with the event coordinator and was told that they were no longer taking submissions - I have decided to take matters into my own hands. I am auctioning the following print called ChallengeR staring NOW! It is an image I made on the big island in the state of Hawaii (birthplace of Barack Obama) in 2007. It is unframed and not mounted. It is 25" x 21" and is number 2 in an edition of 10.
The bidding will start at $350.00 (valued at $2000.00) and will close on Wednesday October, 15 at 8 pm. I will post the bids as they are received. Bids should be in $25.00 increments and stop at $2000.00 - were it to get that high - ($2300 is the maximum per person donation to any political candidate and I have already donated $250.00 of my own money...) If my readers could spread the word that would be great - I don't want this whole endeavor to be an embarrassment. It is a really good deal and will go towards a very important cause - electing Barack Obama the next president of the United States! To bid please email me at richard@renaldi.com
Originally Posted on Wednesday October 8
10.13.2008
10.11.2008
10.09.2008
a good one...
I found this on Lady Bunny's Blog.
John McCain and Barack Obama somehow ended up at the same barbershop.
As they sat there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word was spoken. The barbers were even afraid to start a conversation, for fear it would turn to politics.
As the barbers finished their shaves, the one who had McCain in his chair reached for the aftershave. McCain was quick to stop him saying, 'No thanks, my wife will smell that and think I've been in a whorehouse.'
The second barber turned to Obama and said, 'How about you?'
Obama replied, 'You can go ahead, MY wife doesn't know what the inside of a whorehouse smells like.'
John McCain and Barack Obama somehow ended up at the same barbershop.
As they sat there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word was spoken. The barbers were even afraid to start a conversation, for fear it would turn to politics.
As the barbers finished their shaves, the one who had McCain in his chair reached for the aftershave. McCain was quick to stop him saying, 'No thanks, my wife will smell that and think I've been in a whorehouse.'
The second barber turned to Obama and said, 'How about you?'
Obama replied, 'You can go ahead, MY wife doesn't know what the inside of a whorehouse smells like.'
9.29.2008
Russia: The Land
Check out this fantastic slide show about agrarian Russia by James Hill on the NY Times website.
9.27.2008
9.23.2008
Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery was a totally amazing performance artist, fashion designer, clubber, and model. I'd been wanting to post some pictures of his designs for ages so here they are. Bowery was the nude subject of some of Lucian Freud's amazing portraits - see below...
9.21.2008
9.20.2008
Photolucida's Critical Mass
Critical Mass is a cool photo book contest I will be judging next month. Since 2004, Photolucida's Critical Mass program has been a tremendous resource for photographers trying to get their work out as well as for gallerists, curators, publishers, and editors in their search for good talent. A totally unique celebration of photography, Critical Mass is a way for photographers to have their work seen by over 200 of the best professionals in the business and to help produce and receive monographs of the work that everyone agrees is great. Previous Book Award winners include Amy Stein, Sage Sohier, Camille Seaman, Peter Van Agtmael, Hiroshi Watanabe, Donald Weber, Joni Sternbach, and Louie Palu.
Critical Mass 2008 is now open for registration and will remain open through October 6th!
Critical Mass 2008 is now open for registration and will remain open through October 6th!
9.19.2008
America and the Tintype
A great little exhibit opened today at ICP called America and the Tintype. There are over a 150 beautiful tintypes from the 19th century. I was especially moved by the worker portraits. There is much to learn and observe about portraiture from 19th century - in particular body language. Check it out...
9.15.2008
Chris
The world seems like such a dark place these days (though I suppose it always has been) and the presidential election has been getting me pretty down that I felt like brightening it up with this lovely youthful portrait.
9.13.2008
Northern Lights Oyster Co.
Here is some of the work (that I had mentioned in a previous post) about the oyster farm I photographed at near Homer, Alaska. I have also woven the images into my long term project "the Farm." If you haven't seen that series check it out here.
Cleaning Oysters
Thor
Mike
Oysters and Mussels
Thor with Rope
Cleaning Oysters
Thor
Mike
Oysters and Mussels
Thor with Rope
9.10.2008
Guy Tillim
While I was in South Africa this summer I came across a book called Jo' Burg by South African photographer Guy Tillam. I picked it up and was entranced by his powerful images. They struck me as both lyrical and meaningful. You can see more of his work here. There has been a lot of exciting new work coming out of South Africa the past couple of years-so keep your eyes open!
Captions and Images by © Guy Tillim
Facina, voodoo priest, at his temple, Porto Novo, Benin 2007
Petros Village, Malawi, 2006
Al's Tower, a block of flats on Harrow Road, Berea, overlooking the Ponte building
Facina’s house, Porto Novo, Benin 2007
Left: The Congo Star which adorned the Congolese flag during the Leopold era, photographed at the Military Museum in Brussels, January 2004. When Laurent Kabila displaced Mobutu Sese Seko during the first Congo War of 1996, he replaced the Zairean flag with a banner featuring the old Congo Star Right: Goma residents salute Laurent Kabila after his army takes the city, 1997
Captions and Images by © Guy Tillim
Facina, voodoo priest, at his temple, Porto Novo, Benin 2007
Petros Village, Malawi, 2006
Al's Tower, a block of flats on Harrow Road, Berea, overlooking the Ponte building
Facina’s house, Porto Novo, Benin 2007
Left: The Congo Star which adorned the Congolese flag during the Leopold era, photographed at the Military Museum in Brussels, January 2004. When Laurent Kabila displaced Mobutu Sese Seko during the first Congo War of 1996, he replaced the Zairean flag with a banner featuring the old Congo Star Right: Goma residents salute Laurent Kabila after his army takes the city, 1997
9.07.2008
9.01.2008
Sushi and Moonies
On my recent trip to Alaska we frequented a pretty decent sushi restaurant in Kodiak City a couple of times. It being one of the only good restaurants in town we were talking with a guy I had just photographed about possibly going back there again when he mentioned that he never went there because they were owned by the Moonies and that they were a cult. This kind of depressed me as I am not a big fan of the moonies myself so decided to eat somewhere else instead. In poking around on google about the moonies I discovered that they have a serious connection to the entire sushi restaurant business in the United States. If you are a fan of sushi you have probably eaten sushi distributed by True World. In my research I discovered there was indeed a Kodiak connection as True World owns and operates a fish procesing plant on Kodiak island. You can read a story about it in the Chicago Tribune here and a wikipedia entry about Sun Myung Moon's Unification church here. I'm not sure what I am going to do about my sushi eating habits and I am sorry to spoil it for anybody but I thought it would be interesting information to post here...
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