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Leaving the birthdays for a bit:
Marcel Duchamp showed off his glorious fur coat in this photo last year - taken aboard the Paris, 1927
Above: Another shot from the same session, shot by an unknown photographer - cropped by me… (Source: Library of Congress)
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Amelia Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the world-famous Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman’s Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Lee Miller: From the Top of the Great Pyramid, 1937
“In 1934, she abandoned her studio to marry Egyptian businessman, Aziz Eloui Bey, who had come to New York to buy equipment for the Egyptian Railways. Although she did not work as a professional photographer during this period, the photographs she took while living in Egypt with Eloui, including “Portrait of Space”, are regarded as some of her most striking surrealist images. By 1937, Lee had grown bored with her life in Cairo and she returned to Paris, where she met her future husband, the British surrealist painter and curator Roland Penrose.” (Wiki)
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Homey with an Owl, 1983
[via Everyday_I_Show]
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Dame Jane Goodall bonds with Flint, a chimpanzee born in her camp at Gombe, Tanzania. Flint was the first infant chimp whose development Goodall was able to follow up close until his death in 1968.
Photographed by her then-husband Baron Hugo van Lawick.
[via Iconic Photos]
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Crystal K. D. Huie (b. April 19, 1941): Chanton Road in Little Rock, Arkansas , 1972 - gelatin silver print (Smithsonian)
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Andrea Fraser’s brand of performance during the 1990s popularized the institutional critique art movement, a loosely-formed artistic practice meant to critique the very institutions that are involved in the sale, display, and commerce of art. Fraser’s work typically comments on the politics, commerce, histories, and even the self-assuredness of the modern-day art museum, including the hierarchies and the exclusion mechanisms of art as an enterprise.
Arguably Fraser’s most famous performance, Museum Highlights involved Fraser posing as a Museum tour guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989 under the pseudonym of Jane Castleton. During the performance, Fraser led a tour through the museum describing it in verbose and overly dramatic terms to her chagrined tour group. For example, in describing a common water fountain Fraser proclaims “a work of astonishing economy and monumentality … it boldly contrasts with the severe and highly stylized productions of this form!” Upon entering the museum cafeteria: “This room represents the heyday of colonial art in Philadelphia on the eve of the Revolution, and must be regarded as one of the very finest of all American rooms.”
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Imogen Cunningham:
John Bovington 2, 1929 - gelatin silver print (Source)
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Cindy Sherman, The Bus Riders 1976
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Herbert Bayer
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“The Naked City” - Situationist International
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an immaterial survey of our peers is now on view
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Survival Kit 2010 - Maryanne Casasanta
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(via oldchum)
Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh
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1969 – Guerrilla Art Action Group takes the Museum of Modern Art in New York to task for the pro-Vietnam War corporate activities of members of the Board of Directors
With support from the Action Committee of the Art Workers’ Coalition, Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) performed Blood Bath in the Museum of Modern Art’s lobby on November 18, 1969. Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Jean Toche, and Silvianna Goldsmith entered the museum at 3:10 p.m. on a Tuesday wearing street clothes for the women and suits and ties for the men.
Inside their clothing, they hid two gallons of beef blood distributed in plastic bags taped to their bodies. The artists walked to the center of the lobby and threw one hundred copies of their demands to the floor. This statement insisted that the Rockefeller brothers, who owned considerable percentages of multiple companies that were profiting from Vietnam war-related labor and weapons manufacturing, resign from the Board of Directors at MoMA.
Having strewn their statement, the four GAAG members began to shout at and violently attack each other, causing the bags of blood to burst as they ripped at each other’s clothing. A crowd gathered and the action slowly moved from a tone of violence to anguish as the artists writhed on the floor, moaning before eventually going silent. The artists eventually rose to their feet (the crowd that stood watching applauded) and dressed in overcoats that covered the bloody remnants of their clothes. Two policemen arrived after the artists left.
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Guerrilla Art Action Group
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wonder who this is by?
lovely.
(via takeoverkids)
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untitled - jeremie egry
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some photos in tapei based waterfall magazine
21 cm × 26 cm | 192 pages
4 colour offset printing
isbn：978-986-85479-1-9
supplemental photo zine: 14.8 cm x 21cm, 48 pages(featured along with Jennilee and other talented others)
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Lina Scheynius
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Marina Abramovic, The Hero, 2001
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Toronto Love
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Lygia Clark
Mmm! That’s my girl!
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Yves Klein
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Yves Klein creating FC1, 1961
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Yves Klein, 1960
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Untitled, 2009.
