Urban Art Association

Picked my first photography work this year.

Alex prager "Rita" love her work!

let's have a look at the Prager phearloathing

love her work

Yes its BOB MAZZER: UNDERGROUND

He will be there tomorrow signing his new book and apparently there are prints available too.

Mailer that was sent out....


Howard Griffin Gallery

Private view: 6:00PM, Thursday 12 June

All invited



No guest list due to overwhelming demand. Please arrive early. Overflow area in Shoreditch Food Village for book signing.



A brief reminder that Bob Mazzer's seminal debut exhibition entitled Underground opens tomorrow evening at Howard Griffin Gallery. We hope you can join us. Additionally, Bob Mazzer will be there on the night also to sign copies of his new book.



Below are more of Mazzer's timeless and iconic works that will be viewable at the gallery. The quality and cultural significance of this collection is made all the more unique by the fact that it has lain unseen for so long and that it is is part of a unique 40 year project that can never be repeated. There is something very special about how Mazzer has captured his subjects in such a personal and intimate manner in a place under our feet in London. It is with great pleasure therefore that we invite you to experience this world class body of work in a gallery setting for the first time tomorrow.



For the show the gallery has salvaged an entire decommissioned tube carriage from Transport for London. The seats of which will be arrayed in the gallery to subliminally encourage visitors to the exhibition themselves to recreate the scenes and situations in Mazzer's photographs.



Howard Griffin Gallery is releasing limited archival pigment prints of Bob Mazzer's iconic works and it is the first time that these have ever been available. To enquire about buying Bob Mazzer's work and receive the exhibition catalogue please contact Francesca Giorgi-Monfort at the gallery:

info@howardgriffingallery.com

+44 (0) 20 7739 9970

Dennis Hopper @ The Royal Academy of Arts. Easily one of my favourite photographers. Going to be an incredible exhibition..

Ill get some photos up this weekend. Haven't really posted because its still sitting against a wall : (

Thanks for all the replies in this thread - some really interesting stuff. I a new print today which i'll post up some pics of when its opened up.
Hopefuly we can keep the thread going and updated

Love the Matt Barnes print!

I received this beautiful print last week - its by Jacqueline Roberts
www.unlimitedgrain.com/jacqueline-roberts-gallery/

Thought I would bring this thread back, I have been really into contemporary photographers.








sasha kurmaz

Different style but some great weekly photography zines at www.caferoyalbooks.com

Good to see some new stuff in this thread. The latest image i purchased was the one below bought directly from the photographer and signed etc on the image. Was taken the Rainbow Theatre in London on June 1st, 1977.
It was the great mans 70th last Friday!

I've never seen this image before, and smiled at the Police Story tattoo.

Interesting that the speech bubble was left blank.

im a fan of photography, but a little unorthodox photography though.  A friend of mine got me into photography and really changed my perspective on it, especially with these three artists.  I have three artists up on my walls right now and am really lucky.  I have a John Houck piece, and he is known for his concepts of pixilation within photography.  He takes a color combination and runs it through a software program he developed.  The software breaks down those color combinations within a grid and it gives every possible combination for the color set.  He then folds those prints and photographs them again. The final product is fantastic:






a closeup of what these aggregate pieces look like:



I am also a big fan or Mariah Robertson.  Her work with photography is pretty incredible and it is endemic.  The chemicals that she uses are highly toxic, poisonous, and in a lot of cases, becoming outlawed.  She needs to wear a hazmat suit just to make her work.  








But my favorite of the three is Mathew Brandt.  He challenges viewers to really ask themselves what photography is and what it can be through what he exposes the work with.  He also places a lot of the subjects IN the photography with either parts of the subject or odd substances.  he exposes his photographs with Gummy bears, cocaine, dog shit, whale sperm, ketchup and mustard, human blood, urine, taffy taffy, chocolate, among other things.  He describes his studio as a really messy project room.  He is prob best known for his Lakes and Reservoir series where he photographed lakes, collected water, exposed the pictures, but then soaked the exposure into the lake water he collected.  The acidity of the water transformed the photos into crazy patterns.




heres yosemite's el capitan in gummy bears:




same image in Cake Frosting:




here is a piece that he created from dust he collected from a building before it was knocked down



I find it remarkable that he places a lot of his subjects in the work like that....

A few photographers who have been documenting train painting culture over the years and in the process have been producing fantastic art in its own right:

Alex Fakso


Midas


Good Guy Boris

I like your Tom Ford book.