Photo of The Day | Lyle Owerko
Samburu 32 “Lowrider” by Lyle Owerko
This tintype print is part of a new series of Samburu images by Lyle Owerko. Prints are available in Clic’s online store starting at $90.00.
Photographs from Jordan Sullivan’s Roadsongs series are in the new issue of Urban Magazine.
Limited edition prints from the Roadsongs series are available at all Clic locations.
Brian Rose | Time And Space On The Lower East Side
Book Signing | Wednesday, May 23, 6-8pm
Clic Gallery
255 Centre Street
NY, NY
Time and Space on the Lower East Side
Brian Rose 1980 + 2010
Photographs from 1980, Brian Rose and Ed Fausty
Foreword by Suzanne Vega
Golden Section Publishers, 2012
126 pp., 106 color illustrations, 9 x 11.5
After the wrenching events of 9/11, Rose was drawn back to New York as a subject for his camera. He began thinking about making a response to what had happened to the city, one that would take a longer view of the impact on New York and beyond. Eventually he decided to return to where he had begun—the Lower East Side—the place where so many Americans traced their roots. The old neighborhood tucked beneath the bridges, lying at the feet of the pinnacles of power, would serve as a barometer of change and continuity.In 1980, Brian Rose, in collaboration with Ed Fausty, photographed the Lower East Side of Manhattan with a 4x5 view camera. It was the neighborhood’s darkest, but most creative moment. While buildings crumbled and burned, artists and musicians came to explore and express the edgy quality of the place. For more than two decades that work sat unseen in Rose’s archive as he went on to other projects, most notably his long-term documentation of the landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall.
From the outset it was clear that this would not be a simple before/after take on the place. While keeping an eye on the earlier photographs done in 1980, Rose sought to rediscover the place with fresh eyes, with the perspective of time, change, and history. The result, Time and Space on the Lower East Side, is a set of photographs that looks backward and forward, that posits the idea that places are not simply “then and now,” but exist in a continuum of decay and rebirth.
CLIC PICKS: NEIL KRUG
Neil Krug is an American artist based in Los Angeles. Krug has photographed and art directed campaigns for such bands as My Chemical Romance, Ratatat, Devendra Banhart, Ladytron, The Horrors, Scissor Sisters, Tame Impala, Gonjasufi, First Aid Kit, Canyons, Sea Wolf, Juan Atkins, Sinner DC, The Pierces, Dri, and White Flight. Krug, in a creative collaboration with Joni (Harbeck) Alexander, founded PULP ART BOOK wherein his photography and commerical workcan be seen in limited edition prints, books, and films. Krug has exhibited work in Germany, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and plans to release his upcoming feature film INVISIBLE PYRAMID in 2012.
Cowboy Kate: Sam Haskins
How can you not love Sam Haskins? ’Five Girls’ is probably my favorite of his but this book may be his most famous and recognized collection of photographs. Also check out ‘Haskins Posters’ from 1973.
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Robert Frank / Les Americans
A friend of mine recently turned me on to this book and I haven’t stop looking at it since. I’ve been told this book upset a lot of people because of it’s skeptical view of American society. Truly an incredible piece for any collector.
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Jungle Fever: Jean-Paul Goude
Jean-Paul Goude & Grace Jones. The ultimate creative duo if you ask me. Put on ‘Warm Leatherette’ and flip through this classic.
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Veruschka: Vera Von Lehndorff
I first came to know Veruschka from the classic 1966 mod film ‘Blow-up’ by the great Michelangelo Antonioni. It wasn’t until years later that I found out that she was the first original supermodel or what later would be coined ‘supermodel’ of her time. Her body painting book ‘Transfigurations’ is probably my favorite photography book of all time.
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Savage Beauty: Alexander McQueen
This is such an inspiring look at what McQueen contributed to the fashion world and art in general. This collection of images will be on mood boards for generations.
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DUFFY: Photographs opens Thursday, May 3, 6-8pm, at Clic NYC.
Jordan Sullivan’s solo show of landscape photographs & prose, ROADSONGS, opens this Thursday, April 19, 6-8pm at Clic Gallery in Manhattan. Ben Rayner will also be at the gallery the same night launching his new book, (Un)Familiar. Stop by!!
JORDAN SULLIVAN: ROADSONGS,
APRIL 19-MAY 13, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 6-8PM
Clic Gallery
255 Centre Street (corner of Broome & Centre), NY, NY
CLIC PICKS: WARIS AHLUWALIA
Today’s Clic picks come to us from Waris Ahluwalia, New York jewelry designer/creative renaissance man extraordinaire. About his picks Waris explains, “‘Sometimes I feel like I’m from a different time. I love the ability of photos to instantly transport us to a particular time and place and many of the books I have chosen reflect this.” See below for Waris’ picks from the Clic collection. Photo by Aaron Stern.
RICAHRD MISRACH: ON THE BEACH
I am happiest on a white sand beach with palm trees swaying overhead and turquoise water nibbling at my toes. These images make it vicariously possible and even looking at the colours and tones, I feel myself relax. The aerial style allows us a perspective on human behaviour beyond the initial superficiality of the beach itself.
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CHUCK CLOSE AND BOB HOLMAN: A COUPLE OF WAYS OF DOING SOMETHING
In these portraits Chuck uses the extraordinary daguerreotype technique, the first method of obtaining permanent images with a camera. These incredibly detailed portraits of friends and fellow artists have a ethereal, ghostly quality, rendered complete by poems from Bob Holman, the legendary New York School poet. It’s a perfect match.
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HELEN LEVITT: CROSSTOWN
Featuring photos of New York street scenes from the 1930’s and 40’s and from 1959 to the present, these photos are at once a product of their time and timeless. The humour and human connection is evident. Living in New York is magic and it’s great to get a feel of a bygone era.
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LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE DESERT SEEN
This landscape images are simultaneously worldly and otherworldly. Although you recognize the trees, mountains and lakes he captures, they form part of a surreal moonscape that seem to belong to another land.
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RYAN MCGINLEY: EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Ryan is a good friend and his work is incredible. His pictures are beautiful in their simplicity, directness and honesty.
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KNARF at FB Gallery
Yummi Yammi, a new exhibition by French artist K-narf. Opening on April 11 at FB gallery.
- YUMMY: English term that means extremely pleasing to the sense of taste.
- YAMI: Japanese term that describes a person or thing related to either darkness or evil.
Yummi Yammi is a series of photo collages inspired by the true story of Issey Sagawa, a Japanese man who engaged in acts of cannibalism while living in Paris and became a minor celebrity upon his return to Japan. K-Narf pushes the limits of how sex is portrayed in art—creating a jarring dialogue between images and the story behind them. Check our website for more information at www.fbgallery.net.
CLIC PICKS: GORDON HULL
Gordon Hull is a co-founder of Surface to Air, the multidisciplinary company based out of Paris, where he was creative director from 2000-2011. Working independently since, Gordon has focused on film-screenwriting and directing.He continues to work with a myriad of clients on ad campaigns, brand identities, copywriting, art direction, product design, original music, marketing strategies, and relationship advice. Below, Gordon’s picks from the Clic collection.
Maske: Phyllis Galembo
Phyllis Galembo is one of my favorite photographers around today. I’m full-on obsessed by her unique imagery and impressed by her curious explorations. I find myself constantly going to her work for inspiration. Really striking and totally intriguing. Purchase at Clic online here.
Brooklyn Gangs: Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson is an inspiration. Not only do I love his choice of subject matter, he is a genius with the lens and really gets pure moments with the characters he’s focused in on. These folks- the Brooklyn gangs- are totally amazing. Purchase at Clic here.
What Me Worry: Andrew Kuo
Andrew Kuo is a total nut. I love his graphs, colors, commentary- everything. This book is awesome. He’s got some hilarious insight and is graphically spot-on. Really, really rad. And way too accurate! Purchase at Clic here.
Polaroids: Dash Snow
Dash Snow was an artist of truly incredible energy and emotion. His polaroids are a documentation of his own life, lived with passionate abandon. These images serve as his diary and express the life and vision of a poet whose glimpses into his world- dark, fantastic, weird, and wonderful- are always full of awesome. Purchase at Clic here.
Gypsies: Josef Koudelka
I’ve been interested in gypsies and gypsy culture since I was a kid. Josef Koudelka is an incredible photographer whom I love, and his book of gypsies is one of my all time favorites on the subject. Fantastic stuff! Purchase at Clic here.
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