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- Edo Bertoglio’s Polaroids Capture the Glamour and Grit of NYC Punk in the 1970s-80s (NSFW)
- Your Art Gallery Makes Their Debut at Photoville (Sponsored)
- Sublime Mountainscapes of Scotland, Romania and Jordan
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Posted: 09 Sep 2015 05:00 AM PDT
 Blouson De Cuir, New York, 1979  Andy’s Big Shot, New York, 1978 In the fall of 1976, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio and his then-wife and collaborator Maripol ascended to the chilly 86th floor open-air observatory of the Empire State Building and looked out over Manhattan, where they would spend the next years of their lives immersed in the burgeoning art and music scene. In polaroids, Bertoglio chronicled his daily life in a city that never slept, where he visited CBGBs , Studio 54, and Club 57 with the likes of Andy Warhol, Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Lurie, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones, and many, many more. Returning a Lower East Side that no longer exists—the birthplace of New Wave and No Wave punk—can bring with it the scent of wistfulness, but Bertoglio’s vivid and uncensored account of life as an artist in New York City shuns sentimentality in favor of moxie and grit. The photographer entered the realm of the emerging artistic glitterati through Interview editor Glenn O’Brien and Warhol, who both relished the immediacy and boldness of his imagery. Bertoglio and Maripol set up shop at a time when rent was cheap and nights were spent gallivanting from one club to the next in search of likeminded creatives. He made hundreds of snaps—both candid and spontaneously staged. Even though they made occasional trips to Coney Island, Manhattan for all of them was magnetic and crackling with potential; the photographer, for one, hesitated before leaving even for an instant for fear that he would miss the next big thing, the next resplendent moment. With the creative boom that transformed Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s came two epidemics: heroin and AIDS, both of which devastated the lives of many of the era’s greatest minds. Bertoglio, like so many others, became addicted to drugs, and sold most everything he owned to feed the habit. Among the things he still kept by the time he returned to Switzerland to recuperate in the 1990s were the polaroids that captured his time in New York. These polaroids remained mostly unseen for about two decades, until now. Bertoglio’s first photo book,New York Polaroids 1976–1989, available through Yard Press, features more than one hundred of the artist’s Manhattan snaps. It pictures a New York that is both fractured and united, where so many lonely souls collide and come together in hopes of making something new. New York Polaroids 1976–1989 is available for purchase here.  Debbie outside a bar, New York, 1979  Sandy & Sandro, New York, 1983  Bunny, New York, 1981  Cindy, New York, 1983  Dominique & Nina, New York, 1976  Girls next door, New York, 1981  Glenn & Kate, New York, 1977  John, New York, 1979  Lorenza, New York, 1977  Louise & Debi, New York, 1983  Lovey & Chica, New York, 1981  Mama’s bed, New York, 1984  Modern sunglasses, New York, 1977  Ramona, New York, 1977  Red Shoes, New York, 1979  Smoking Grace, New York, 1986  Trash bag bikini, New York, 1985  Soapy Maripol, New York, 1979 All images © Edo Bertoglio The post Edo Bertoglio’s Polaroids Capture the Glamour and Grit of NYC Punk in the 1970s-80s (NSFW)appeared first on Feature Shoot.  |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2015 10:32 AM PDT
 It’s safe to say that these days, a photographer’s reach can extend well past the four walls of a private art gallery, and with the online platform Your Art Gallery, the Internet has become an artist and art buyer’s playground… and office suite. What separates Your Art Gallery from other online art buying venues is that it operates based on a star-rating system. Your Art Gallery does away with the notorious favoritism of some private galleries without sacrificing their high standards of excellence. Artist can upload their work, choose their own royalties, and receive crowd-sourced and objective feedback from thousands of members of the Your Art Gallery community. For the art buyer, this means a searchable and extensive library of outstanding pieces; for the artist, it means that they are continually challenged to produce their very best work and to expand their horizons. At this year’s Photoville at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Your Art Gallery has chosen to premiere their first exhibit, which will further enhance it’s support of top rated photographic artists’. Art pieces will be exhibited framed, mounted on plexi and as stretch canvas prints, using the sophisticated and clean finishings developed by Your Art Gallery in collaboration with the prestigious team of printers and image-makers atDuggal Visual Solutions. This event will allow buyers and photographers alike to see in-person the high caliber of artistry and production at Your Art Gallery and will enable Your Art Gallery artists to increase their reach and exposure. Duggal Visual Solutions will also host a booth at Photoville, and they will be sharing a prize wheel with Your Art Gallery. Be sure to pop in and try your hand at winning some great prizes, and learn more about Your Art Gallery. They will be giving demonstrations and answering any and all questions you might have; you can even register as a member right then and there. The post Your Art Gallery Makes Their Debut at Photoville (Sponsored) appeared first on Feature Shoot.  |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2015 07:00 AM PDT
 Bauchaille Etive Mor, Scotland  Omu, Bucegi Massif, Romania When Bristol-based photographer Charles Emerson was a boy, he made the trek to his grandparents’ house near Glencoe, Scotland, where he could see the looming silhouette of Buachaille Etive Mor, a mountain that carries still centuries of Gaelic folklore, stories of giants, lovers, and ghosts. Two decades later, he returned the peak as part of Myth and Mountains, for which he photographed the hallowed rocky pyramids of Jordan, Romania, and of course, Scotland. For the photographer, mountains carry with them the fables of generations, are engraved by the forgotten allegories of eons of human history. His goal was not to capture the mountains as they stood in stark reality but rather how they emerged from memory and legend. These were the sites of sacred pilgrimages, the receivers of prayers, and the seats of the gods. For this reason, he chose to use double exposures taken from various angles to illuminate the phantom quality of mountains, to highlight the evanescent in rock formations that paradoxically have withstood the test of time. Emerson crafted each image with a digital, high resolution frame composited with a number of film shots, some of which had been exposed multiple times or exposed directly to the light from the site itself. In each location, he battled the feral elements that dominate these wild monoliths, from the beating sun of Jordan to the wild dogs and bears of Romania. Ultimately, suggests Emerson, it all comes back to his family and the stories of Buachaille Etive Mor. In the mountain, the photographer and his own father, an abstract expressionist, found their mythical counterparts in the Fingal and his son Ossian, born from the deepest caves. After we leave, the mountains remain, housing the ghosts of whispered tales told long ago. As part of his online print launch at Antlers Gallery, the gallery will host a free talk with the artist, entitled ‘Experiencing Mountains: Charles Emerson Artist Talk’ on Wednesday, September 9th, at 6:30 PM. See the catalog here.  Beinn Dorain, Scotland  Jebel Um Ishrin Massif, Jordan  Mouth of Ossian’s Cave, Scotland  Jepii Mici, Day, Romania  Ossian’s Cave and Ben Nevis, Scotland  Peak of Bauchaille Etive Mor, Scotland All images © Charles Emerson, courtesy of Antlers and Institute The post Sublime Mountainscapes of Scotland, Romania and Jordan appeared first on Feature Shoot. |
