Kusho is the latest collection of prints by japanese photographer and artist Shinichi Maruyama. Kusho, the japanese word for writing in the sky’ features ten large-scale photographs that represent the midair interplay of black india ink and water. Maruyama captures-two liquids colliding the millisecond before they merge into gray allowing the viewer to see in extraordinary detail chemical and physical processes invisible to the naked eye. Capable of capturing this phenomenon at a 7,500th of a second, Maruyama takes full advantage of a recent advancement in strobe light technology.
You can order Maruyama’s book or collection of limited edition of the silver prints through his website.
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Glen Luchford, the author of millions of pictures of the “i-wish-it-was-me” type, released THE BOOK! Now we can enjoy his masterpieces in one place instead of roaming through dusty piles of gloss.
This on is definitely on my Wish List for Christmas.
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Hurry-hurry, you LA people.
If you haven’t been yet, you HAVE to go – Getty Center, Irving Penn’s Exhibition “Small Trades”. Irving Penn died at the age of 92 almost a month ago but he’s more than alive in the Getty. The collection of 1950s shots depicting regular people of small trades from London, Paris and New York is a perfect example of elegant simplicity and meticulous rigor that became the trademarks of Penn’s style.
You would think that a firefighter looks that same in these three cities…go check out yourself, I won’t open all the secrets.
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