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"...a frozen sculpture of the artist's head made from 4.5 litres of the artist's own frozen blood taken from his body over a period of five months. This work is repeated every five years and will result in a unique record of the artist aging."
Louise Baring for the Telegraph, " Norman Parkinson’s career as a fashion and portrait photographer spanned a remarkable 56 years. Turning his back on the ghostly-lit interiors that dominated pre-war fashion photography, he took women out into the real world, pioneering ‘action realism’, a photographic style that persists to this day. His images, combining aesthetic rigour with a witty, almost surrealist eye, were published in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Queen, Life and Town & Country."
Randy Kennedy for the NYT, "None of the pictures add up to anything like a simple polemic, but Mr. Epstein said that perhaps for the first time in his career, he felt the need to shed artistic detachment. He and his wife, Susan Bell, have designed public-service-type messages that they intend to place around the country, pairing some of the book’s images with literary quotations, like one from Mark Twain that hovers above a shot of a slab of new Nevada highway: “Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
“I have tried to convey in these pictures,” Mr. Epstein said, “the beauty and terror of early-21st-century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible future.”
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Roberta Smith for the NYT, “Dress Codes” is the third triennial mounted by the International Center of Photography. It is also the third and final phase of the center’s Year of Fashion, hence the theme. Perhaps predictably, this show isn’t as good as the previous Year of Fashion exhibitions: exhaustive surveys of the fashion work of Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon; the extraordinary “Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now”; and a display of works from the center’s collection called “This Is Not a Fashion Photograph.”
Judith H. Dobrzynski for the WSJ, "The pictures are wonders, sharp, beautifully lit, with a background that can look staged. It's not, and the lighting is natural. Mr. Bergman shoots with a 35-millimeter Nikon camera, always asking permission of his chosen people, but never posing them. He does the moving around, somehow managing in the viewfinder to fuse face and setting. For any given person, he says, there are "only a few shutter releases," though he has taken "thousands of bad pictures that are not up to what I want to say."
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