Posts Tagged: Art

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Photography X Art: Cara Barer

Houston-based fine art photographer, Cara Barer’s work using anachronistic, chunky books the likes of computer manuals, maps, encyclopedias, phone books,etc. reminds us that the everyday and mundane holds more magic than we often give it credit for.

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Photography X Art: Cara Barer

Houston-based fine art photographer, Cara Barer’s work using anachronistic, chunky books the likes of computer manuals, maps, encyclopedias, phone books,etc. reminds us that the everyday and mundane holds more magic than we often give it credit for.

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Photography X Art: Huang Xu

Visual Artist/ Photographer, Huang Xu’s Fragments series portrays China’s capitalistic and consumer boom through its drastic impact on the environment. Using archaeology- grade 3D scanners on plastic bags found in rubbish heaps and also referencing silk textiles from Imperial China,

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Photography X Art: Huang Xu

Visual Artist/ Photographer, Huang Xu’s Fragments series portrays China’s capitalistic and consumer boom through its drastic impact on the environment. Using archaeology- grade 3D scanners on plastic bags found in rubbish heaps and also referencing silk textiles from Imperial China,

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Photography X Art: Taryn Simon

Artist Taryn Simon uses seeing-is-believing documentary photography to provoke intrigue and conversation around particular human contexts and cultures that she feels warrant society and the viewer to have a closer think and look at. Conceptual art, investigative journalism, social anthropology

Simon Taryn White Tiger Kenny Selective Inbreeding 2007

Photography X Art: Taryn Simon

Artist Taryn Simon uses seeing-is-believing documentary photography to provoke intrigue and conversation around particular human contexts and cultures that she feels warrant society and the viewer to have a closer think and look at. Conceptual art, investigative journalism, social anthropology

Photography X Art: Alison Jackson

Alison Jackson scratches society’s itch by visualizing “realities” of famous people. Website here http://www.alisonjackson.com/

Photography X Art: Alison Jackson

Alison Jackson scratches society’s itch by visualizing “realities” of famous people. Website here http://www.alisonjackson.com/

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Photography X Art: JR

JR,  pre-fab graffiti street art that humanizes environments. Israel/Palestine border     Africa                                           Shanghai, China His site http://www.jr-art.net/

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Photography X Art: JR

JR,  pre-fab graffiti street art that humanizes environments. Israel/Palestine border     Africa                                           Shanghai, China His site http://www.jr-art.net/

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Photography X Art: Yang Yongliang

Yang Yongliang, evolving traditional Chinese Shan Shui painting and photography. Via http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/12845/yang-yongliang-cigarette-ash-landscape.html More of his previous work

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Photography X Art: Yang Yongliang

Yang Yongliang, evolving traditional Chinese Shan Shui painting and photography. Via http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/12845/yang-yongliang-cigarette-ash-landscape.html More of his previous work