05/10/08, 5-8 pm; Opening for out show at Michael Nelson Gallery in Saugerties, NY.

Cinco de Mayo – San Diego
I was in San Diego last weekend and ran into Cinco de Mayo celebrations as I was strolling through Old Town.
Here are some colorful shots…

ManRayGun – the band
“Spent some time this weekend photographing the members of the band ManRayGun. Here are a couple of examples from the session.”

Here’s a great picture from Jay P. Morgan:

From Art Daily.org:
“NEW YORK.- Bill Wood’s business was photography—and he produced tens of thousands of images over the course of his career. The variety of subjects and situations he captured provide an in-depth photographic record of life in a post-World War II American city just hitting its stride.
Bill Wood (1913-1973), a tall, slender, hard-working family [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
PARIS.- In 1839, when the daguerrotype appeared in France, the Englishman William Fox Talbot invented a technique destined to have a great future as it used the principle of the negative and printing on paper. He named his invention a calotype, “the beautiful image”. Whereas France gave the world the daguerrotype, and made it [...]

This is Muto by the street artist Blu. It is an animation created on the public walls of Buenos Aires and Baden, Argentina.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

By Joe Holley of the Washington Post:
“Flip Schulke, 77, a photographer whose arresting images of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. became icons of an era, died May 15 of congestive heart failure at Columbia Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Schulke also shot memorable photographs of the boxer Muhammad Ali, [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“LOS ANGELES.- The presentation Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, May 6–September 14, 2008, explores the collaboration between Bernd and Hilla Becher, a husband and wife team, who photographed the industrial architecture of Western Europe for nearly fifty years.
Together, the Bechers created an archive of [...]

By Matthew Moore of telegraph.co.uk:
“The graffiti artist Banksy has pulled off one of his most audacious stunts – an enormous protest against Britain’s surveillance society painted just feet from a CCTV camera.
The guerrilla artwork appeared on a wall above a Post Office yard off Oxford Street in central London on Monday morning.
It features a [...]