Images by Andrej Balco “Built with the intention of providing affordable housing for everyone, this industrial mode of construction quickly became synonymous with a highly anonymous lifestyle, devoid of any individuality. This is the point of departure in this photo-essay by the Slovak photographer Andrej Balco. Who are these people in these prefab buildings? Is [...]
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
A fragment of a lesser-known short documentary by Werner Herzog: take a deep breath before pressing play.
“A whole film exists already in a sensation, in an intuition. It is all about availability; I put myself at the service of the fantasy I have, I let it materialize. So I don’t create a system, nor a school. My method of working is to remain open. An artist is like a medium: a [...]
Series by Michael Corridore “Michael Corridore’s project, Angry Black Snake, is an exercise in minimalism. Each image has been pared down to the barest of elements—urgent gestures and barely traceable figures cloaked in smoke and dust. As Corridore describes it, the project began as part of a larger portrayal of spectators at various events, including [...]
Images by Mike Osborn Via Daylight Magazine
Images by Jungjin Lee. From the series Wind. Via American Suburb X
* Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me *
From Burden of Dreams, a documentary by Les Blank on the making of Fitzcarraldo: a fiction film that Herzog calls his “best documentary”. (Tóxico favorites, both of these films) (Gracias Pancho)
I have been looking for this Frederick Wiseman film for some time now. This documentary was shot at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, in Massachusetts; it shows inmates inside the asylum, living a harsh reality behind the bars of their own–and the system’s–unreason. “The movie was both a landmark piece of journalism and a [...]
* “What is this fear of seduction? A fear that art may have power over us rather than we over it? A desire to reside in the rational space of the head, rather than to be drawn into the body by beauty, which speaks to the senses?” -Rebecca Solnit- *
Images by Fernando Montiel Klint, Mexican photographer.
Says The Little Brown Mushroom Blog: Editorial RM has announced the first edition of their competition for The Best Photobook 2010 of Latin America. Registration is free and the limit for submissions is July 30th, 2010. The jurors are Martin Parr (past Tóxico International Guest), Lesley Martin, Álvaro Sotillo, Diran Sirinian, Ramón Reverté, Alexis Fabri [...]
Theatre of War, by Irish photographer Richard Mosse. Says Lens Culture: Set against the spectacular backdrop of the Tigris river in the background, a group of heavily armed and armored soldiers lounge around an empty swimming pool filled with rubble at one of Saddam Hussein’s formerly luxurious hilltop palaces. They could be extras on a film [...]
