Drive Through World

Two little girls pay out the window in Soho. NY Photographer Atisha Paulson's Drive Through World, Part of his series Shooting Soho.

An Intimate Setting, An Adolescent Portrait

Last night I ventured over to a lecture - one of a series- held by the Camera Club of New York at SVA. The photographer was Martine Fougeron. A graduate of the ICP, Fougeron began shooting her two sons- and 10 of their friends- when they were 13 and 14 at the inception of their teenage rebellion and continued through their high school graduation. As a result, she built a refined, intimate portfolio of their coming of age.

Fougeron did something socially difficult, seemlessly-- AKA she's Mom and her two sons are growing up, rebelling, figuring out girls- booze- smoking (they're French) - yet there isn't really evidence of this adverse relationship within the work, and where it is present is an illustration that is integral to the story. I also think she was able to minimize photographer interference in a context where it would typically be amplified to capture a story that ends up feeling true - and very relatable at that. Somewhere in the lecture introduction, Fougeron was compared to the likes of Jacques Henri-Lartigue and Larry Clark, a class of photographers who photographed within their immediate social surroundings. For Fourgeron, that was caring for her sons. And I think that's why these images come so naturally.

View Of The Street

Thanks to Michael Wolf's upcoming show "iseeyou," Google maps is crossing over into the art world. In his exhibit, Wolf makes a statement about urban life and our quickly depleting privacy given the advancement of technology. Part of the exhibition is comprised of a series called "Street View: A Series of Unfortunate Events." I always did wonder how Google managed to compile such a seemless view-- the company's automobile trolls the city streets with 9 mounted cameras, capable of capturing the world in 360 degrees.

Wolf switched out his camera for the screenshot tool on his computer and milled the streets of cities around the world, virtually speaking that is, to find an unexpected moment.

Darling Marcel

In case you have not already seen this video (and I understand it is an off chance at this point), please take a moment to do so. It is vry impt. Jenny Slate did an amazing job creating Marcel as quite a lovable character- and kudos to the director Dean Fleischer-Camp!