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Type Talk

posted on March 21, 2010 by Jason Quincy

photo: via Neatorama

Proto-Gaga VS Mike Ruiz

posted on March 13, 2010 by Jason Quincy

Telephone, Lady Gaga Ft. Beyonce / Time Inc., Hollywood's Hopper

I like to present people in a way that's unexpected. I guess I'm a little bit of a shock and awe junkie, part of it has to do with that. It's mostly me kind of tapping into some underlying thing about people that I see and just kind of want to bring to the surface. 

Obviously my aesthetic and the kind of way I do everything, super-stylized and surreal, Lady Gaga totally appeals to me. I would love to work with her. Outside of that I have to say, like all of my old, iconic people that I've always dreamed about working with... I kind of have! I'm pretty fortunate in that respect. It really depends on what people are doing, that's relative, that's inspiring to me.*

Fetish 3, Mike Ruiz

Fetish 2, Mike Ruiz

*Quotations from Mike Ruiz,  via PopEater

Like Floating in a Warm Bath

posted on March 13, 2010 by Jason Quincy

Sam's work is more hyper-real than surreal. The fantasy contained in his photographs is not a move away from reality, but closer to it. So close that recognisable forms change shape. Through the devotion of his eye we might better understand the infinite complexity of every subject which surrounds us, thus our world grows larger. This expanding Universe may not always be able to make me happy, but when I look at Sam's photos, it grants me what Roland Barthes found to be one of the most elusive sensations at all, ease.*

*Quotation by Joshua Wiley

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Prints on CuratedMag.com

posted on March 12, 2010 by admin

Here's an excerpt from Prints995's latest feature on Curated Mag. 

"Prints995 have added three new artists to their stable. Above, you see an example of Michelle Dean Kaminer’s unfocused, light driven photographs. Of Russian decent, Kaminer grew up in New York and New Jersey and studied theater and visual arts at Fordham University.

Ennid Berger, another of the new artists at Prints995, works in high-contrast, surrealist street images. Her, “Carnegie Hall,” might not be completely indicative of her style, but is nonetheless captivating. The print is the first after the jump.

Finally, Florence Monmarte hails from Vienna and now lives in New York, by way of Stockholm. She studied photography at the International Center of Photography and has worked with the likes of Robert Blake. Her “Lullaby #2″ is shown on the next page."