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The art of consumption

I love photo-mosaics. I find them fascinating.
Some nice photography by Chris Jordan that uses them as info-graphics to highlight American consumptive behaviour.
Also check out his earlier portraits of mass consumption for lots of beautiful pictures of rubbish.

Bobby

Image © Harry Benson
Earlier this year I caught the Harry Benson Retrospective at the National Gallery of Scotland. I knew Harry for his work photographing the Beatles just as their star was rising in the US, but is was this image of Ethel Kennedy that really remained with me that day.
Harry was standing next to […]

Magnum Podcasts

Just discovered that Magnum have a video podcast channel that features the work of the agency’s photographers, either set to music or as part of mini-documentaries about the subject matter. You need to use iTunes to watch the latest episodes, but the back catalogue is available in browser for the iPodly challenged.
Nicely done and […]

All that you can’t leave behind

Nice collection of photographs of empty car parks. Beguiling. Reminds me of Matt Siber’s Floating Logo’s and Untitled projects for the way it makes you looks at what’s not there, rather than what is.
Via Hi-Res.

Flickr Toys

Hit and miss collection of Flickr Toys - great for wasting time avoiding the realisation that you’ve done no Christmas shopping yet. The Hockney-iser is particularly addictive when fed the right image. None of them a patch on Moo Cards tho’ …
Also worth mentioning, is XPapr. Grand Union’s nicely-done web 2.0 pastiche Christmas present to […]


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