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Un rebozado de cosas. Fritanga de la buena.

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Harder, Steelberg

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The Essence of Britishness, Through the Eyes of an Under-Recognized Portrait Photographer

In the spring of 1972, a British photographer named John Myers, then in his late twenties, started taking portraits of his neighbors in and around the town of Stourbridge, in England’s West Midlands. He worked principally with a five-by-four-inch Gandolfi plate camera. His subjects were ordinary men, women, and children, usually portrayed alone, though sometimes grouped together. Very few were smiling, and none looked at the camera with an aspect more optimistic than that of mild resignation. 

For this viewer, who grew up in nineteen-seventies England, there is a recognizable quality of Britishness to Myers’s pictures, whether or not it is explicitly signalled. The image chosen to open the book, “David in Knight’s Armour,” from 1974, shows a small boy dressed in Crusader’s regalia and brandishing a plastic sword, a lion rampant on his breastplate. In one image, a leather-clad motorcyclist has decorated his bike with a small Union Jack; in another, a proud car salesman displays the British flag above the desk in his office. But the Englishness is evident, too, in the irremediably damp crevices in the brickwork of buildings or between the paving stones of sidewalks, and in the hunched shoulders of Myers’s subjects, many of whom look to be feeling a little chilly, physically and emotionally. In their formal poses, they seem as conscious of their status as the objects of an artist’s gaze as any Renaissance Pope or Regency monarch.

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Isolation party, Maia Flore

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Cristina Daura, Illustrations.

Quirky and awesome illustrations from artist Cristina Daura.

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Siéntate seguro en la fe

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Alejandro Pineiro Bello, Paintings.

Fascinating paintings that mutate back and forth from richly surreal to sublimely abstract by Cuban-born, Los Angeles based artist Alejandro Pineiro Bello.

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New Mesmerizing Oil and Graphite Portraits That Peer Into the Subject’s Inner Mind by Miles Johnston

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‘Waiting For Freedom' by Neil Aldridge. Nominee, Environment Singles. A young white rhino, drugged and blindfolded, about to be released in Okavango Delta, Botswana, after its relocation from South Africa for protection from poachers.