Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots is a book by designer Mark Michaelson; a collection of mugshots of petty thieves that he has amassed over the years. Filmmaker Errol Morris wrote about the selection of pictures that you see above. You can also read an article on this book at the Smithsonian Magazine, and [...]
Friday, December 25, 2009
Says American Suburb X: In the early 1900s, Ernest J. Bellocq carried his 8 x 10-inch view camera across Basin Street to photograph the women of New Orleans’ notorious district of legalized prostitution, Storyville. His private photographic project remained unknown until after his death, but eventually found its way to international acclaim. Yet virtually no prostitute [...]
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Images by Verner Soler. “I try and visit my family once a year, and every time I brace myself for the shock of seeing them age in yearly increments. The ensuing typology includes over seventy relatives spanning three generations so far. Their faces are photographed straight on, from each side, and under the same exact [...]
Images by Tanyth Berkeley. Says the fantastic AmericanSuburbX website: Tanyth Berkeley likes the special ones. She likes the pale ones, the large headed types, the big bodies and the long giraffe necks. She likes the Robert Crumb shapes and the vampire faces, the glowing white skin and the men-in-dresses with womanly laces. She likes the [...]
Images by Giles Revell. More here. Via but does it float, a grand blog. (Gracias Pancho)
While things slowly get back to normal in Mexico City, photographer Nicola Okin has been active during the swine flu epidemic. Watch the complete gallery here.
Two images, as teasers, of a new project by Mexican photographer José Luis Cuevas, whose work we have show quite a few times in the Toxi-blog. What can we say. We are fans. Look at those faces. And more on their way. — (José Luis was enrolled in the Tóxico Martin Parr Master-Class.)
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Señor Stefan Ruiz has a great new website which you can visit here. He is also coming down to Mexico City again in March to finish his Telenovela series: a project which Tóxico is helping to coordinate. ( You can read an interview I did with him here, en español.)
Saturday, January 24, 2009
“French photographer Diane Ducruet has come up with a series of staged portraits that play with the ideas of family dynamics, identity, control, influence, postures of power, and more. The work becomes a kaleidoscope of subtext as members of the family slip in and out of expected roles: mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, husband [...]
. Retratos de Carla van de Puttelaar, fotógrafa holandesa conocida por sus desnudos femeninos. Más de su trabajo aquí. (Click en la imagen para agrandarla.)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Images by Michael Itkoff *** (“At first it would seem that nothing could be easier than seeing. We just point our eyes to where we want them to go, and gather in whatever there is to see. The truth is more difficult: seeing is irrational, inconsistent and undependable. Seeing is like hunting and like dreaming, [...]
“A Celebration of The Perfect Portrait” Más aquí.
