Malcolm Brown Photography BlogMalcolm Brown Photography Blog | Malcolm Brown Photography Blog http://malcolmbrown.net/blog shoots, behind the scenes, works in progress Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:56:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 FOUR PHOTOS at FIVE POINTS http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1123 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1123#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:47:34 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1123 Thanks to Ari and Sabrina over at INDIE WALLS , you can now enjoy four of my ‘diorama’ photographs while enjoying a great dinner at Five Points on Great Jones. I am very impressed with Indie Walls and its effort to match artists with fitting venues interested in local food, the local community and local artists. Make sure to get the roasted mussels with garbanzo beans, pickled cauliflower, jalapeño, fennel in a buttery clam broth. And then try the grilled flat iron steak with marinated beets, fried potatoes, watercress and horseradish.

FIVE POINTS ON GREAT JONES STREET IN EAST VILLAGE

INTERIOR SHOT WITH TWO PHOTOGRAPHS AT EACH END

ONE OF THE FOUR PIECES

MAP

GREAT NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON FROM INDIEWALLS

Images printed by Beth Schiffer Print Shop
Mounting / presentation by Lucky Singh at Lucky Digital.

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1123 0 RESOURCE MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1108 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1108#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:35:55 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1108 Check out the new Resource Magazine, Spring 2012.
Here is the great write-up by Christina Fong:

“When it comes to reality, Malcolm Brown certainly has a way with it. His sense of imagination is clearly felt in his photographs, which have an unmistakable dream-like and whimsical quality. Even his portraits go beyond a traditional sitting and are playful riffs on his subjects’ lives.

Trained as an anthologist and spatial sociologist, Brown has experience in observing and analyzing how people, live, work and play in a given space. But his critical and rational approach left him wanting more creativity. In 2007, after traveling to India and finding his camera to be a magic apparatus that connected him to people and places, Brown decided to switch to photography.

“What is important to me is that the images present a mix of mystery, light-heartedness, and drama – a curious brew that reminds me to take life lightly and that things may or may not be as they seem,” he said, adding, “I embrace that reality.” – Christina Fong for Resource Magazine

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1108 1 2 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING ANNA LEVIKOVA http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1100 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1100#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:02:36 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1100 THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Anna Levikova...]]> 2 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Anna Levikova…

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

ANNA LEVIKOVA, painter
A perfect blend of fine detail and blurred surfaces. Born and raised in Moscow, Anna has been living and painting in Brooklyn for the past 11 years. Fascinated and intrigued by her native country, she finds a lot of inspiration in Russia’s history, culture, politics, and religion and has used that as a subject for much of her work. Her inspiration also draws from everyday life, global travels, literature, and modern culture. Each work starts with an idea but ultimately delivers a message.

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1100 0 2 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING ANDRE DA LOBA http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1097 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1097#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:54:16 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1097 THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting André da Loba...]]> 2 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting André da Loba…

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

ANDRE DA LOBA, illustrator & toy maker
André da Loba, a clever Portuguese toymaker, illustrator of the whimsical, and defier of Newtonian physics, stands on the wall and lies on the floor in this image. This effect is a nod to the imaginative worlds that he builds. The effect may not be immediately visible, ergo we spilled a glass of water on the ‘wall.’ We shot this portrait directly above his studio, so I am fairly confident that we flooded his space during the course of this shoot. I asked André about his art:

What? My work?
My work will always be about you
and about me!…

about anarchists,
fortune-tellers,
fleeing kings
blasphemers and mutineers.

Poets and wall painters,
but not as much as it is about
tall dwarves,
black cats,
color visionaries
and survivors from shipwrecks.

People with odd limps,
dust in road humps,
Light-bulb changers,
professional vagabonds,
perfect stammers,
and spontaneous mutes.

It’s about strangeness.
It is about being secretly, secretly happy.

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1097 0 3 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING NEMO HOFFMAN http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1093 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1093#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:54:10 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1093 THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Nemo Hoffman...]]> 3 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Nemo Hoffman…

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

NEMO HOFFMAN, artist
Hardly a man with his head in the clouds, Nemo spends his hours creating his own personal line of bespoke tools which include a 4 ft. long hammer with a handle made of thin, gnarly branch. Once when he was a child he built a treehouse with his brother and father. It only lasted one winter due to material choice & weather, not skill level.

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1093 0 3 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING BINA ALTERA http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1090 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1090#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:50:17 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1090 THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Bina Altera...]]> 3 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Bina Altera…

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

BINA ALTERA, artist
Bina works in a variety of fine art forms, but a common thread that connects her work is an interest in found objects with elegant forms: cotton plants, coral, patinaed binoculars or this ram’s head. In her recent photography work, she is using a tilt-shift lens. This lens is used to adjust the focal plane so that it is not parallel to the image plane. The result of this technique can be seen in this image. Notice how the nose of the skull is in the same plane of focus as her face – yet, only the skull is sharp and clear. I chose to use this technique because in a similar way, Bina likes to remain behind the scenes while she concentrates on her work.

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1090 0 4 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING PRUNE NOURRY… http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1076 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1076#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:41:36 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1076 THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Prune Nourry...]]> 4 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Prune Nourry…

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

PRUNE NOURRY
artist

French artist Prune Nourry impregnates her work with social and ethical issues. Through the clever use of medical apparatus, scientific tools, and laboratory equipment, she delivers accessible, thought-provoking messages about bioethics and human reproduction. In 2011 she erected The Spermbar, a vending cart on 5th Avenue that discharged concoctions consisting of hand-selected ingredients that indicated genetics traits for the perfect child.

Here, like a specimen, she sits among her tools in her lab, magnified for inspection and analysis.

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1076 0 4 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING SUSAN WEINTHALER http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1071 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1071#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:33:51 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1071 THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Susan Weinthaler...]]> 4 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Susan Weinthaler…

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

SUSAN WEINTHALER
artist

Susan’s work is about bits – magnetic bits.

Colored bits.
Circle bits.
Square bits.
Photographic bits.
Mirrored bits.

And they all adhere to a magnetic canvas, which allows you to play and infinitely rearrange and redefine the bits. I asked Susan about her work:

“I believe it is the artist’s responsibility to recognize truths. One truth I explore in my work is how complex systems are built by applying simple rules.”

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1071 0 5 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING ANITA STO http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1058 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1058#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:00:46 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1058 5 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Anita Sto.

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

Anita’s One-Year Performance is a test of endurance. In this work, which ended this past fall, she avoided seeing her own image in mirrors or other reflective surfaces for one year. During this time period, she recorded her experience through writing and photographs (all of the pictures that she took were with a film camera and developed and printed at the end of the performance).

Here are my favorite excerpts from her One-Year Performance draftbook in which she wrote each of the 365 days.

DAY 40/41
The moon didn’t disappear — she is simply in the dark.

DAY 54
And also — I cannot look at my ass, without mirrors.

DAY 160
Anything that you see in the mirror, is happening in the past. Do not trust mirrors.

DAY 284
SPYING AND OBSERVING MYSELF
I AM GETTING SERIOUSLY TIRED OF IT.

DAY 288
28 82 69 47 35
28 82 69 47 5 6
28 82 69 47 8 26

$3, powerball

DAY 349

DAY 350

DAY 355/356
And then, I will see my image in the mirror again
and it will be like when you meet somebody you know –– after a long time

]]> http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1058 0 5 DAYS LEFT // PRESENTING MAC PREMO http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1053 http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1053#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:51:45 +0000 mbrown http://malcolmbrown.net/blog/?p=1053 THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Mac Premo.]]> 5 DAYS UNTIL THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG SHOW. Up until Saturday, I will be highlighting two portraits per day. I will also be including the text for each image, which right now you can only find in the casebound book. During the show, you can buy THE ARTISTS OF THE INVISIBLE DOG BOOK with all 31 portraits and text about each one. For now, presenting Mac Premo.

PRE-EXHIBITION PRINT PRICES
20″ x 24″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 6)
$250 UNFRAMED
$450 FRAMED

11″ x 14″, archival inkjet print
(Edition Size: 4)
$175 UNFRAMED
$275 FRAMED

To purchase prints, please email the artist, malcolm@malcolmbrown.net

MAC PREMO
Collagist, animator, director, carpenter, illustrator, skateboarder, screen printer, collector, father, storyteller…

#485 This is a photograph of a resin-encased photograph on wood. Archived and objectified among his tools and belongings, Mac Premo hovers, coffee in hand. If you stumble on his photograph, take it with you, put it on your shelf, live with it, polish it and then tell us a story about it. Mac Premo did this with hundreds of objects that he archived in a 30-yard dumpster: Old Hoover vacuum, Tom Tresh baseball card, Union Pacific Railroad coupon book, Olson No. 47 panel lamps, transotape, ABC book about Jesus, Orange County bus card…

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