TheLatvian

Here i will share my love and passion for the arts world.

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Few Afghan families have books in their homes, let alone children’s books.  

All of the students I have photographed have a hunger for reading, and they treasure the books they are given.

http://www.imagine-asia.net

Hermitage Museum

http://goo.gl/29RWzY

Palace Square, 2,

St Petersburg, Russia, 190000

September 30 - November 21, 2015

Museum für Gestaltung

Ausstellungsstrasse 60
8005

Zürich, Switzerland

www.museum-gestaltung.ch/en/

July 3 - October 18, 2015

CerModern

Altınsoy Cad. No:3, Altındağ Merkez Ankara, Turkey http://www.cermodern.org/

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Nancy Doble

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OMO: Tribes of Ethiopia

Photography by Sam Barker

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Star Wars by James Russell Ward

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Art by Sicioldr. Nero Gallery presents group exhibition “Nymphosis” now on our blog:

http://www.ohsosurreal.com/2015/05/nero-gallery-presents-group-exhibition.html

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Some new work from the series “Disposable’.

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Andy Warhol - Self Portrait in Drag, 1981

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IRÉEL BY FLORA BORSI

Photographer Flora Borsi ( tumblr / facebook / behance ) - “In this series called ”IRÉEL” I mixed photographic elements with painting techniques. A hyperrealist painter aims to achieve a result which looks like a real photographic picture. A pictorialist photographer’s desired result is visually equivalent to a painting. The photographs are real, I’ve just applied some color/toning effects, adjusted the contrast and a few skin retouch.”

[ previously here ]

via: anitaleocadia

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Philippe HALSMAN & Salvador DALI :: In Voluptas Mors [1951] :: The making of

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Bizarre Animal Illustrations by Redmer Hoekstra

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JASON RATLIFF’S WALKING SHADOW SERIES

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The American Dream, Ryan Schude

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Way to go Shude! 

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Fig. by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

Drawing together newly commissioned work Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s Fig. traces links between photography, imperialism and the colonial impulse to acquire, map and collect the world.

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Bobby Neel Adams (1953, Black Mountain/USA) currently resides in New York. Much of Adams' photographic work addresses the transformation of the human body by aging and circumstance. In the late 1980s he began using a photomontage technique he termed “photo-surgery,” in which photographs were altered through manual excision, collage, and possible defacing of the subject. In 2007 with a Grant and Residency from The MacDowell Art Colony, Adams resurrected an old project titled FamilyTree. Photographing immediate family members individually he then combined their portraits into one figure. These photographic montages show the visual DNA passed down from father to son and mother to daughter. Adams is currently producing a series of Vanitas style, still-life photographs of detritus and decay titled Drowned.

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Scotch Tape by Wes Naman

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Classic/Modern Fantasy Worlds to Explore

Julie Heffernan is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as “a new kind of history painting.”

In a world often obsessed with minimalism, Julie Heffernan gives us the fantastic gift of intricate masterpieces – in the form of surreal paintings that harken back to the masters of old. Her work, which is often influenced by the heavily ornamented and ornate Baroque period, is a collection of fanciful environments filled with carefully arranged elements from roses and temples, to skyscrapers and power lines. These later, modern elements of society are easily overlooked on first glance – the classic form and execution of the paintings taking precedence. On closer inspection (a must with these explorable works), we are treated to the realization that these paintings are far more recent than it first seemed

These juxtapositions of different ages and genres are perhaps the reward for exploring her images closely, but from afar the works evoke just as much. Heffernan perfectly matches classic figurative compositions, creating balanced works which please the eye with measured arrangements, while simultaneously surprising us as they break out of those boundaries.

A native of northern California and a graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz and Yale University, Heffernan now resides in Brooklyn, New York. To see more of her uniquely luminous oil paintings, see cclarkgallery.com.

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by Rita Kazakevica