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“Decade of Nudes” is a beautiful fine arts video portfolio of nude photography by the German photographer Alexander Paulin. Since 1999, Paulin has worked as a freelance photo-designer in his studio near Hamburg, Germany. Paulin’s photography has been featured in a number of magazines, including “Playboy,” “Maxim,” “Stern” and “Photographie,” as well as in many books and calendars.
This piece includes a number of photographs, as well as the wonderful fine arts video portfolio.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/a-fine-arts-video-portfolio-decade-of-nude-photography/“Decade of Nudes” is a beautiful fine arts video portfolio of nude... more
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“Tattooed Beauty: APG Burlesque” is a very sexy three-minute short film created by Daniel Dragon Films. The scenes of the beautiful tattooed burlesque ladies were filmed at The Goat Farm with the Atlanta Photography Guild’s Burlesque Camera Club. Enjoy!!
This piece includes colorful photographs, as well as the sexy short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/gorgeous-tattooed-burlesque-beauties/“Tattooed Beauty: APG Burlesque” is a very sexy three-minute short film... more
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Shanghai-born photographer Shen Wei has developed an international reputation, with numerous awards and exhibitions to his credit. Shen says he was bought up “strictly and conservatively,” in Mainland China, but since relocating to New York City, his desire for self- expression has grown. His collection of photographs, “Almost Naked,” is a series of portraits and occasional still-life images that explore how others have dealt with the emotionally complex issue of identity.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/photos-of-the-day-almost-naked/Shanghai-born photographer Shen Wei has developed an international reputation, with... more
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The 2011 Mermaid Parade took place on Saturday, June 18th in New York City’s Coney Island. The annual event first took place in 1983 and has been a very popular area attraction ever since. The Mermaid Parade draws a huge crowd of celebrators who don wild and outrageous costumes, with the parade’s naughty marchers wearing sea-themed outfits that often leave little to the imagination.
This piece includes a number of beautiful high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/those-crazy-coney-island-dayze-the-mermaid-parade/The 2011 Mermaid Parade took place on Saturday, June 18th in New York City’s... more
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“Case History” is a study of the homeless, a collection of photographs of homeless people in the Ukraine by Mikhailov, one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. Mr. Mikhailov began making photographs in the 1960s, but he was arrested and interrogated twice by the K.G.B. In 1996, five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began making portraits of people who had been disenfranchised and left homeless by the rise of a new capitalist oligarchy in his hometown of Kharkov, Ukraine. He published 400 of them in his book “Case History,” from which the photographs here were selected.
Mikhailov’s raw images of the homeless are sometimes intensely painful and not for the squeamish; they are hard to look at, but also hard to look away from and hard to forget. The photographs from “Case History” are currently on exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, the first in-depth presentation of Mikhailov’s seminal series (1997-98) at an American museum. The photographs portray people who are far from conventionally attractive in grungy rooms or in wintry outdoor sites, naked or pulling aside their clothes to expose parts of their bodies ordinarily hidden from view.
What does it mean to present images like these as art in a museum? In one respect, they carry on the tradition of picturing the downtrodden exemplified in photographs by countless artists from Walker Evans to Andres Serrano. Works like those tell us that, whatever their outward appearances and circumstances, the poor have souls that are worthy of respect. However, Mr. Mikhailov’s photographs are not so ennobling. They render their subjects as exotic and even demonic. Like specimens in a freak show, they elicit sympathy, revulsion or amazement, but not admiration or empathy.
In “Case History,” the subjects are, above all, actors who function mainly as allegorical symbols. They stand as expressions for the underbelly of society, and their challenging revelations of their own usually hidden body parts is a metaphor for the whole project of exposing what polite society would prefer to keep under wraps. To the extent that they appear everywhere around the world, including in New York City, they are universal signs of capitalism’s failure to care for the less fortunate.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/case-history-behold-the-anonymous-homeless-downtrodden-insulted-and-injured/“Case History” is a study of the homeless, a collection of photographs of... more
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“Downtown” is a wonderful series of stunning black-and-white fine art nude photographs by Cyril Helnwein, shot guerrilla style at night on the streets of downtown LA, using only available ambient light from street signs and lamp posts. The photographs are accompanied by a short film presenting a video slide show of the images from the “Downtown” series. “Booty Dance” is a gleefully sexy one-minute short film, also by LA photographer Cyril Helnwein, comprised of behind-the-scenes footage of a model fooling around during a photo shoot. The unforgettable face was drawn on the model by the legendary comic artist Dan Panosian.
Mix it all together, and you’ve got the Ironic Red Hot Downtown Booty Dancer!
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution black-and-white photographs, as well as the two short films, “Downtown” and “Booty Dance.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/the-ironic-red-hot-downtown-booty-dance/“Downtown” is a wonderful series of stunning black-and-white fine art nude... more
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During the course of his artistic career, David LaChapelle was hired by Andy Warhol, fired by Madonna, photographed Pamela Anderson, Lady Gaga, and Hillary Clinton, and made a star of the transgender personality Amanda Lepore. He earned millions and spent much of that on his self-financed movie about an urban dance form created in the rough neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. When the film, “Rize,” failed to attract a large audience, the weary LaChapelle packed up his career and disappeared.
Now, many years later, LaChapelle is back in New York briefly, overseeing his one-man show at a Madison Avenue art gallery and a separate commissioned installation that is opening in the lobby of the Lever House on Park Avenue. With their erotic gloss, their sizzling aesthetics and their slick production values, the photographs at Michelman Fine Art are recognizably the work of a man who in his editorial work for “Vanity Fair,” “Interview,” “Rolling Stone” and others photographed David Duchovny dressed in Lycra bondage trousers, Kanye West as Black Jesus, a turbaned Elizabeth Taylor looking like a $5 fortune teller, Eminem naked but for a well-placed prop and other stars like Tupac Shakur (wearing soap bubbles), Angelina Jolie and Lady Gaga baring their souls for the camera, along with a good deal more.
At the Lever House, however, the artist has returned to techniques he employed when, at the very beginning of his career, long before he became the go-to video director for pop music divas, he used naïve, childlike forms like linked paper chains to make his work. In the space that in the past has presented exhibitions of works by artists such as Barbara Kruger and Damien Hirst, Mr. LaChapelle has hung the chains from walls and ceiling in looping festoons. At first glance, the stapled links only look like colorful decorations for a children’s party, but when viewed more closely they reveal images of naked bodies, as an allegory for human connection.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and two music-videos with artwork by LaChapelle.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/david-lachapelle-the-fellini-of-photography-returns-to-fine-art/During the course of his artistic career, David LaChapelle was hired by Andy Warhol,... more
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“Nothing Personal” is a six-minute short art film directed by the acclaimed photographer Matt Black, featuring Paz de la Huerta. We’ve been seeing a goodly generous amount of Paz de la Huerta’s sexy body and bountiful boobs these past few months on Boardwalk Empire, not to mention her awkward wardrobe malfunction outside the LA’s Chateau Marmont. Now, exceeding both of those, Paz is seen inside the Chateau Marmont getting it on with some lucky actor in this steamy cinematic adventure. The first three minutes is all about Paz grinding it up, then the next basically explain the point of the film.
And just what is the point you may ask? The difference between making love and sex, that love provides a personal fulfillment that sex can’t accomplish. Sex is a very superficial way of appreciating people. And maybe even more to the point, narcissism is a very harsh friend.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the very sexy short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/nothing-personal-id-just-rather-be-a-picture/“Nothing Personal” is a six-minute short art film directed by the... more
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The French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) is a legend in fashion photography and one of the most prominent photographers of his generation. The Moderna Museet in Stockholm is presenting the first Nordic solo exhibition of Jeanloup Sieff’s work, which features a selection from Sieff’s photographic oeuvre.
Sieff began photography in the early 1950s as a contemporary of Helmut Newton and David Bailey, belonging to the generation succeeding Irving Penn. In the course of a long career, his photography spanned from fashion, advertising and portraits to reportage and landscapes. His images are often sensual and elegant, and in the 1960s he was much in demand as a fashion photographer, especially in New York City, where he lived for many years. Sieff was awarded several prizes, including the Prize Niepce, the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in Paris in 1981 and the Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1992.
Jeanloup Sieff had a huge popular appeal in France, the Unites States and elsewhere. His black-and-white photographs, always elegant and exquisitely printed, became his trademark style. Dancers and nudes were two recurring themes in his works. A trendy man about town all his life, early risers in Paris grew accustomed to seeing the long-haired, debonaire man driving a stylish vintage English sports car for his early morning breakfast in the St Germain district of Paris.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/the-photography-of-jeanloup-sieff-an-eternal-dandy/The French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) is a legend in fashion photography... more
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“Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960” presents a wide range of images focusing on performance art that were expressly made for the artist’s camera, which was recently on exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Performance art is usually experienced live, but what documents it and ensures its enduring life is, above all, photography. Yet photography plays a constitutive role, not merely a documentary one, when the performance is staged expressly for the camera (often in the absence of an audience), and the images that result are recordings of an event but also autonomous works of art. The pictures in this exhibition exemplify the complex and varied uses artists have devised for photography in the field of performance art since the 1960s.
Many artists have experimented with the camera to test the physical and psychological limits of the body. Other artists have enlisted the camera as an accomplice in experiments with identity, suggesting the plasticity or mutability of identity itself. They have engaged the production of the self as positional rather than fixed and often played with shifting ideas of gender and/or sexual identity. The exhibition also includes both off-the-cuff and staged performative gestures of political dissent, as well as explorations of the dualities of consumerism and dispossession.
“Staging Action” demonstrates the complex ways in which photography, confronting us with its ability to both freeze and extend a moment in time, pushes against the grain of mere documentation to create performance art as a conceptual exercise that can be appreciated in the absence of a performing body. Often the technology of the camera is able to open up new space for performance, isolating exhibitionist, arresting, spectacular and just plain wacky moments. For every strenuous performance in this collection that challenges physical and psychological limits, there’s also a very playful one.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, an engrossing photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/performance-in-photography-since-1960-an-audience-of-one/“Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960” presents a wide... more
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“Sugar” is an award-winning short film, a very racy black comedy directed by Jeroen Annokkeé at Amsterdam’s Lev Pictures. In the film, young Bert’s scantily dressed, buxom neighbour, Klaasje, comes by to borrow a cup of sugar. When the cup accidentally slips from her hands, they both try to catch it. Disaster strikes as their heads bang together, and Klaasje falls downstairs. From that point on, things just keep getting worse and worse for poor Bert.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the very humorous short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/sugar-an-unexpectedly-pornographic-catastrophe/“Sugar” is an award-winning short film, a very racy black comedy directed... more
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“Invisible Light” is the latest music video by the Scissor Sisters, an erotically charged wonder produced by Nicolás Méndez from the Barcelona collective, CANADA. The high production values of incredible cinematography, along with an exploration of vintage-style montage, work perfectly. This jaw-droppingly epic collaboration is a joy to behold, a perfect pairing of visual and musical talents.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the stunning music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/the-scissor-sisters-invisible-light/“Invisible Light” is the latest music video by the Scissor Sisters, an... more
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More random stuff from around the webernets. This week: Kardashin girls smear mayo on their hoochies, scientists find a 'liberal' gene, a fat lady shoplifts, celebs singing Let it Be, craziest naked women in news, penis guns, and of course, lots of robot and Japanese randomnalia.More random stuff from around the webernets. This week: Kardashin girls smear mayo on... more
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“Nude Visions: 150 Years of Nude Photography” is a collection of photographs representing the unclothed human body, images that have exuded a great fascination ever since time began. The series of photographs presented here were selected from the exhibition Nude Visions held earlier this year at Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe (MKG), in Hamburg, Germany. The exhibition invited visitors to embark on a journey through a collection of images of the human body that spanned 150 years.
Nude photography is always a process of negotiation between revealing and concealing, unveiling the ambivalence about what is visible and what is unseen, between shame and curiosity, of legitimation and provocativeness. How the naked body is treated is closely bound up with the specific social context in which it occurs, the ideas of morality and the aesthetic ideal of an era. The subject of the nude or nudity is always influenced by both the historical artistic tradition and by the reactions to contemporary impulses, which in turn are interpreted by the photographer. Images which were still regarded as being scandalous at the beginning of the 20th century, triggering moral misgivings and controversy about a subject perceived as being delicate, hardly bring a blush to the face of anyone living today. It is not only the motifs which have evolved over the years, but also the reproducibility of the images, as well as the extent and manner in which media coverage of them has impacted the awareness and significance of nakedness in society.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a slide show and a documentary video about the exhibition in Germany.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/nude-visions-150-years-of-nude-photography/“Nude Visions: 150 Years of Nude Photography” is a collection of... more
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“Up Close” is a collection of photographs that features the exceptional talent of four photographers whose images capture people, places and events with candid intimacy. “Up Close” traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems alongside that of contemporary artists Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang.
The collection takes its inspiration from the way each artist candidly depicts a social milieu and urban life of the 1970s and early 1980s. Sharing an interest in sub-cultural groups and individuals on the margins of society, each artist reveals a remarkable capacity to provide an empathetic glimpse into semi-private worlds through intimate depictions of people and their surroundings.
Jerrems’ photography was associated with a feminist and political imperative, a preoccupation with subcultures, forgotten and dispossessed groups, especially Aboriginal communities of the time. Larry Clark unflinchingly turned the camera onto himself and his amphetamine-shooting coterie to produce “Tulsa” (1971), a series of photographs repeatedly cited for its raw depiction of marginalized youth. With its grainy shot-from-the-hip style, “Tulsa” exposes a world of sex, death, violence, anxiety and boredom capturing the aimlessness and ennui of teenagers.
Larry Clark's influenced Nan Goldin and a generation of artists who aspired to break with the more traditional documentary modes. Mining the emotional depths of her friends, lovers and family, Goldin's work reveals a riveting intimacy while uncovering the bohemian life of New York’s Lower East Side. Goldin says, “I was documenting my life. It comes directly from the snapshot, which is always about love.”
William Yang’s photographs from the 1970s further the snapshot aesthetic through journeying into the intimate world of his particular social milieu: drag queens, Sydney gay and inner-city culture. Yang’s direct, unpretentious photographs provide a unique chronicle of marginalised groups especially as he put it: “…people who are gay, who were invisible, who were too scared to come out. During gay liberation people became visible, people became politicized, and there was a Mardi Gras that was a symbol of the movement.”
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a remarkable slide show and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/up-close-photographs-of-candid-intimacy/“Up Close” is a collection of photographs that features the exceptional... more
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Twenty years ago, Jeff Koons made waves with his “Made in Heaven” series of paintings and sculptures when he first showed the work at the Venice Biennale. To coincide with the anniversary of the work’s 1990 premiere in Venice, the New York City gallery Luxembourg & Dayan is opening the exhibition “Jeff Koons: Made in Heaven Paintings” on October 6th, 2010.
The works from “Made in Heaven” disappeared from public view for many years. The original show was criticized severely in the press, and there was also the matter that Koons and IIona Staller, his wife and model for the work, split up in 1992. Koons destroyed much of the work when Staller took their son, Ludwig, away to Italy.
In 1997, Koons twice postponed and ultimately canceled his show of this work at the Guggenheim. In those years, Koons was still very raw from the divorce and the child-custody issues. Nevertheless, he has always maintained that this is his most important body of work, the most radical, the most risky and the most sincere.
Now it seems that Koons is finally making peace with the series. He gave his blessing to include several “Made in Heaven” paintings and sculptures in the “Pop Life” group show at the Tate Modern in London last year. And now he’s agreed to have the Luxembourg & Dayan show.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show, a documentary short film and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/jeff-koons-the-infamous-made-in-heaven-series/Twenty years ago, Jeff Koons made waves with his “Made in Heaven” series... more
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Will Cotton’s work speaks strongly to our anxieties about how ineffable, how dematerialized much of life has become. His paintings are entirely free of technology and the modern world, but they are products of that world, hyper-realistic and flat, and nostalgic for things that aren’t. Cotton is at his best when his work is entirely abstract, as in this series of portraits of women surrounded by pastel cotton candy clouds or with elaborate candy headdresses. The emotions of the sensual women in Cotton’s portraits seem torn between celebration and mourning, reality and fantasy.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show, a documentary short film and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/will-cotton-the-world-of-sensual-cotton-candy/Will Cotton’s work speaks strongly to our anxieties about how ineffable, how... more
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“Will and the Wheel” is a comical animated short film by Margherita Premuroso. Will is an enterprising hamster who builds a creative and mysterious machine using his beloved wheel. In the end, it just goes to show what great things can come out of a strong desire to see some hot naked ladies!
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/will-and-the-wheel-building-a-naked-girly-machine/“Will and the Wheel” is a comical animated short film by Margherita... more
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“Giddy Up” is an amusingly cheeky music video by New Zealand’s Tahuna Breaks, directed and illustrated by Leah Morgan. The video is a sexy parody of the Pointer Sisters’ 1970s Sesame Street classic, “Pinball Number Count.” Now you’ll never look at those pinball machines in the same way ever again!
This piece includes colorful pictures and the very sexy, humorous music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/giddy-up-ride-that-funky-naughty-pony/“Giddy Up” is an amusingly cheeky music video by New Zealand’s... more
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