May 22, 2011
Aëla Labbé
I came across this French photographer a few days ago and have been tirelessly narrowing her work down ever since. I specifically chose these photographs because they portray a perfect balance between the eerie, magical, and wonderful. The children's flowing dresses and bare naked backs covered by long tangled hair, have an strange and fantastical, yet timeless effect on the audience. Her photographs are both current with popular aesthetic trends, but also cater to past imagery, making it difficult to gage the age of each photograph.
“To create and to share my vision is a need and a goal after which I go unwaveringly. Inspiration overwhelms me ceaselessly – day…and night! My work is made up of my memories, my emotions, my hopes, my thoughts, and my inner turbulences. There is a certain wistfulness about it – a shroud of reverie perhaps” - Aëla Labbé
May 20, 2011
Joe Skilton
This makes me miss New York.
May 18, 2011
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May 9, 2011
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott began photographing New York's street culture and overwhelming architecture in 1929, just in time for the recession. Her collection of New York photographs not only provide a historical view into life in the 30s but also capture since-destroyed historical buildings in Manhattan.
May 5, 2011
Fred Herzog
For CONTACT Photography Festival, I went to the MOCCA to see their shows that featured both contemporary and historical photography. I was immediately drawn to the historical work of Vancouver's Fred Herzog. Although originally from Germany, Herzog moved to Vancouver in 1952 and it was there that he captured quintessential photographs of postwar life. His visual circus of middle class street life from the late 50s onward serve as icons of a past culture upon which postmodernity was born.
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