Curtis loved roaming the city of Berlin for several days. This is the giant TV tower constructed in the mid to late 1960s.
(Photo- Curtis Browne)
Artwork
Artwork- 100 Cameras. 100 Homeless People.
A hundred people affected by homelessness are given the opportunity to show what daily life is like through photography. These are their stories.
Vocabulary #64: Monotype
monotype- a single print taken from a design created in oil paint or printing ink on glass or metal.
It’s A Miniature Life
” There is this moment when people see a well constructed miniature: a surprised drawing-in of breath, a disbelief that something so small could look so real. This is what I chase.” – Emily Boutard, one time lawyer, now a full time architecture student and creator of ‘little architecture.’
(Photo- Emily Boutard)
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Pages From…
…’Berlin, The Remembrances Of A Camera’ Travel Booklet c. 1950.
” We are in Berlin, in a town that no one easily forgets, though in each case for a different reason. Now look! Over there is an omnibus. A lady gets out. Is she a Berliner? Or possibly an American or a Swiss? She hurries away, perhaps to a rendez-vous. The omnibus, that bright yellow Berlin double-decker, rumbles on.
Over the seat she left in such haste a camera dangles. And there our story begins- the Berlin remembrances of a camera…”
Grab Bag- Portrait Pillow
Civil War portrait pillow from Nectar.
(Photo- Martha Browne)
Artwork- Damian Stamer
Originally from North Carolina, thirty-something artist Damian Stamer often taps into his southern childhood memories for inspiration. He uses his own photographic images as backdrops for the more distorted, abstract oil paints he applies. The results are a fascinating combination of then and now.
Dusk 2.0, 2011
The Americano, 2013
