Gueorgui Pinkhassov

Sometimes something that influences you in your creative output burrows itself into the deep parts of your brain, so deeply it becomes an inextricable part of your outlook so that you no longer recognise it as a foreign body. Later, having not thought about it for a long time, you come across it again in the real world and you sit and stare silently at it while your tea goes cold and the sound of the windows taking a rainy hammering is a dim drumming, your mouth agape not just at the beauty of the thing but at your monumental ability to forget it.

Gueorgui Pinkhassov's colour photographs seeped into my brain years ago (I don't know when I encountered them first, probably in a one of those Taschen or Phaidon books) and slowly sent out fuzzy filaments that gradually stretched across my eyes and tint everything I see now. His photographs don't just rely on light for the chemical reaction required to make an image - they are of light, you can practically feel its warmth coating your eyes. In my own small way I've been subconsciously trying to recreate the feeling of his photographs.

There's another excellent gallery here.

Alan Wolfson - Miniature Urban Sculptures

Alan Wolfson spent 18 months painstakingly remaking (and re-imagining) sections of Canal Street in New York to a minute (1/2inch=1foot) scale. He uses plastic mostly, and even designs and installs the tiny light fixtures, and in such a way as to have them easily and efficiently maintained.

Sohei Nishino

Sohei Nishino walks around a city taking thousands of photos then stitches the prints together and takes one more photo.

Giacomo Balla

Street Light, 1909

John Cyr's Developing Trays - Wynn Bullock reminder

John Cyr is photographing the paraphernalia of film photography that is fast becoming (or already has become) obsolete.

More here

 

Most of the trays have the little drip corner on the bottom right, and these look like commas to me.

One of the trays belonged to Wynn Bullock, whose name I'd been trying to remember for the last week or so - his "colour abstractions" have been in my head for a while as I'm seeing their influence shine through in some stuff I'm doing at the moment.

EDIT

 I originally wrote this post before I woke up fully, but the "stuff I'm doing at the moment" actually refers to the "end" photos, the offcuts from the printing machines in photolabs. The colours and sometimes even the forms have pretty striking similarities to Wynn Bullock's abstractions.

Wynn Bullock, Color Light Abstractions from Lumière on Vimeo.

Binh Danh

The combination of Binh Danh's remarkable technique with the emotionally charged and personal subject matter is amazing, a perfect synthesis.

The Disposable Project

A disposable camera, left (by Suzanne) for a few hours to fend for itself in the middle of a forest at 2010's End of the Road festival. The result is hilarious, wonderful magic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedisposableproject/

Yojiro Imasaka

Hypnotic and strange, in a familiar way.

More of this series

www.yojiroimasaka.com

Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz

A post by 1000 Words reminded me of this amazing body of work called "Travelers". It turns out Jonathan Lethem (who wrote one of my favourite short story collections, "Men and Cartoons") has a story incorporated into the Travelers book, which makes it all the more covetable...

Casper Dalhoff

I'm filling out a UCAS form to apply for college in Britain and the personal statement bit has got me thinking again about the photographer who made me want to take photographs (and spend a ridiculous amount of money on my first camera). His name is Casper Dalhoff and I first saw his series 'The Dark Side' in the slightly incongruous surroundings of the Eyre Square Shopping centre as part of the World Press Photo 2003 exhibition. 

After Effects - Daniele del Nero

Scale model houses covered in flour and mold spores, left to fester and photographed.

I love them for their resemblance to underwater wrecks, like they're looming out of the depths while you float around in one of those little submersibles with the massive lights on the front, your face pressed against the glass, wondering.

 
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