Tickle Your Fancy – #26 – NSFW
Welcome back to our twenty sixth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art.
Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site.
We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections…
Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs
Robert H. Jackson (*1934)
“Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald to Death, Dallas” November 24, 1963
silver gelatin print on glossy fibre paper, printed by August 28, 1983 17,3 (20,5) x 21 (21,8) cm
The Daniel Blau gallery in London are exhibiting a selection of vintage prints from Pulitzer prize winners. The exhibition is composed of original vintage prints of famous photographs, many of which have documented and shaped our history. The show includes Robert H. Jackson’s photograph of the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald and PaulVathis’“Two Men with a Problem”, amongst many others.
Exhibition dates – 15 February – 29 March 2014
@DanielBlauLtd
Top 10 Sexiest Works of Art – Ever
©Getty Images – ‘Picasso with Jacqueline Roque his wife for 20 years from 1954’
The Guardian selects ten works of art depicting ‘erotic pleasure in unique and thought provoking ways’. Pablo Picasso’s La Douleur is among them. Known for his irrepressible sexual appetite towards women, yet also resenting his dependence on them. He famously informed one lover, ‘for me, there are two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats’.
Also included is Japanese artist Hokusai’s masterpiece of erotic art known as Shunga and there’s so much more. Interesting read
The Man with Three Legs – Zhang Huan
©Zhang Huan
Totally fascinating interview with Chinese artist Zhang Huan, his art is so personal and also highly politicalised. ‘His art knows no bounds in terms of the means he uses to convey messages of identity, spiritualism, vulnerability and contravention – ranging from performance to photography, installation, sculpture and painting.
Make Your Own Masterpiece With the Rijksmuseum
‘Last year, the Rijksmuseum — the Dutch national museum dedicated to art and history — launched the Rijkstudio, an incredible online portal that not only allows users to browse 150,000 masterworks in their collection, but encourages them to use high-resolution downloads to create their own works of art.
To celebrate the one year anniversary of the Rijksstudio, the Rijksmuseum is holding a contest for the best design using an image from their collection. Anyone can enter, and the winner will get €1,500 in prize money and the chance to have their item produced and carried in the Rijksmuseum atelier.
To inspire the entrants, the Rijksstudio partnered with Etsy designers to showcase the creative possibilities.’
Incredible Images Not Photoshopped
It’s easy to assume when viewing perfectly timed and captured images that they have been Photoshopped but not one of these thirteen shots has not been Photoshopped at all. Incredible images, view them here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
