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[RSJ]

Word. Check this out for some serious before and after photoshop action!!

 

[Space]

Me da's site.

 

[RSJ]

G'wan yer da! Great stuff.

 

[Space]

G'wan yer da! Great stuff.

Cheers, he's been doing it for a living for about 25 years. That picture I posted won wedding portrait of the year and a gold medal or something.

 

[classic seanc]

Edit, this has already been posted. DUH!!!!


It was a link to the Born to Run shoot. It's good.

 

[BC]

SIX - PERVATEEN
" The underground, for lack of a better term, is the terrain that British artist Six has inhabited his entire life. Known in a previous life as Simon Barker, a member of the Bromley Contingent (a.k.a. the Sex Pistols' inner circle), one of the teenage masterminds behind the late '70s punk explosion that forever altered the Western cultural landscape, Six spent most of the next two decades working in fashion for Vivienne Westwood before resettling in Prague in the mid-'90s.

It was in Prague that Six discovered a subterranean youth culture whose inner workings revolve around a street drug called Pervitin. Pervitin is an extremely potent and lethally addictive type of methamphetamine that enables its users to stay up for days at a time. According to legend, it was originally manufactured by the Nazis in World War II in order to keep soldiers awake, and was later sold to the Japanese to use experimentally on kamikaze suicide fighter pilots.

Although classified illegal since 1941, Pervitin – also known on the street as piko and pernik – can be purchased freely in the streets and nightclubs of Prague. With an average street value of 200 crowns (less than $9) per gram, it is also cheaper than marijuana – a factor that has undoubtedly contributed much to Pervitin's emergence throughout the '90s as the drug of choice in the Czech underworld.

It was this underworld – specifically the juvenile faction of it – that Six began to explore when he first came to Prague. While the Old Town's Gothic Baroque ornamentation exudes a fairy tale charm that lures millions of visitors to the City of a Thousand Spires each year, Prague's illicit nightlife also entices a less conspicuous horde of gay sex tourists and curiosity seekers eager to explore the semi-legal nightclubs where young Czech boys sell their bodies in exchange for sums of money that are relatively low by Western standards. This facet of gay culture has been well documented in a series of films by Wiktor Grodecki, and the proliferation of gay pornography produced locally certainly contributes to the promotion of this image of the post-Communist Czech capital as a sexual playground.

These teenage boys are by all standards societal rejects – most of them were either abandoned by their parents or have run away from smaller cities throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia in order to "make a better life" for themselves in Prague. Prostitution is regarded as an "easy way out" for certain of these boys who are deemed unemployable owing to their precocious age and lack of training, skills, and education.

Importantly, the children who came of age in the '90s are also members of the first generation to have grown up in the Czech state under capitalism – a fact that has been a major point of generational division and conflict. The youngest generation typically despises everything that came before – as their parents secretly did – and have been eager to play a role in the "new," imported system of Western consumer capitalism, despite the fact that very few members of this generation possess the monetary resources necessary to acquire the designer goods that began appearing in storefront windows in the beginning of the '90s. With the late arrival of capitalism in a society whose morale and value system had been all but depleted by a corrupt Soviet-led government, their parents were expected to assimilate overnight into this new system – the very system they had been taught all their lives to despise.

Given the ongoing process of acclimatization and the schizophrenic logic that still pervades in every aspect of society – and which in many ways has been the brunt for the youngest generation to bear – it makes sense that, for young people in extremely unfortunate predicaments, navigating the bleak waters of the black market economy seems at the outset like a feasible option for "cheating" the system. To be sure, nobody is misleading these youths into a life of crime; to themselves, they are merely operating their "democratic" right in choosing to earn money by prostituting, pimping, dealing, and stealing.
Six was able to attain a unique perspective that would lead to the creation of the colorized black-and-white photo series PERVATEEN, his first major project.

PERVATEEN is situated on the myriad site of perpetual contradictions described above. Combining elements of portrait and documentary photography, advertising and gritty decadent realism that calls to mind Nan Goldin's work, the thirty-six photographs comprising the series are cut into four rows, each photograph cut into a letter forming the word PERVATEEN, each row of PERVATEENs color-tinted blue, orange, green, or red according to the season they were shot – altogether comprising a "year in the life."

Furthermore, when first exhibited in 2002 at the Horse Hospital Gallery in London, a small biographical text for each of the models was provided, adding yet another narrativistic component that quells any skeptical delusions that a cursory glance might yield regarding the boys' status in the work as objects of exploitation.

In fact, PERVATEEN's critical, ironic gaze into its subjects' lives refuses to exploit – in the photographs, the models appear as neither victims nor sexual objects. Nor does it attempt to pathologize the very real predicaments the photo-subjects live in via a superficial east-meets-west dichotomy, nor does it attempt to glamorize their fucked-up state as in the work of Larry Clark, a photographer Six has been erroneously compared to on occasion. "

 

[BC]

alas, i cannot recall who this photographer is. striking work though.

 

[taubstumm]

hey brian, i think there's been a bit of a mix-up here; this photo...

...is by ros kavanagh, and was taken as part of a series of shots of deirdre roycroft for the play fragments of a dead performance, which was staged by loose canon theatre company in 2003 in the old city arts centre on the south quays, as part of their series of closing-down performances.

the photos were taken by turning an entire room into a giant camera obscura (a method of creating an image which has been used since at least the 1600s), and putting sheets of photographic paper against one wall to capture the image.

i know all this because i was ros's assistant at the photoshoot, and i originally posted that image on this board a couple of months ago.

the other ones are cool as well, but this one isn't part of that set.

 

[BC]

the other ones are cool as well, but this one isn't part of that set.

ah thanks, good to be able to place at least one of them. they were altogether on my computer, cant remember where i got them. i may even have got that last one from here, i dunno. yay darkness.

 

[theweeyin]

http://northernimages.com/lakesuperior/index.php

 

[theweeyin]

Beautiful kittens

 

[theweeyin]

http://ace.methodcomputers.com/ghost/

 

[ernesto]

http://color.slightlyblue.com/

 

[tripoli]

This stuff is pretty amazing...

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/

 

[Space]

This stuff is pretty amazing...

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/

I concur, great stuff.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Tenerife 27 March 1977

from www.project-tenerife.com

read the transcripts of the communication between the Air Traffic Controller, the KLM pilots and the Pan AM pilots. Utterly depressing in its sickening inevitability.
Plenty of 'what ifs' too - several seemingly small events occurred which, had any of them not happened, the tragedy would have been prevented

 

[BC]

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/fine_art/index.htm

 

[theweeyin]

Some shit hot shots here: http://www.nationalphotoawards.com/photocontestannualwinners2.html

 

[La La]

leica gallery

http://www.leica-gallery.org

 

[RSJ]

Great stuff here, especially the rockabilly stuff - http://www.erikrefner.com/