With the winter holidays just a week off, it’s time for DARTs annual best photo and art book roundup. As Alice said before sliding down the rabbit hole, “what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?” In no particular order, here are some of the year’s best that should suit the Alice in you. Above: LMAKgallery / Second Floor Books … Read the full Story >>
Whitney Sherman: Post Typography Lettering & Type book launch / MICA Falvey Hall / Baltimore: F is a Four-Letter Word At last count, I found Whitney Sherman [a long-time DART subscriber] wearing five hats: Director of the MFA in Illustration Practice and Co-Director of Dolphin Press & Print at MICA; Illustrator, Designer and Proprietor, Pbodydsign.com; Co-editor/Contributing author, History of Illustration (Bloomsbury/Fairchild 2018); and … Read the full Story >>
Marco Palli, a New York-based sculptor from Venezuela, opened an exhibition of new work at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NYSS) last week. The show honors the Larry Einbender Travel Award, which sponsored his anthropological research in Europe last fall. As a friend and colleague who often writes on the subject, he graciously agreed to meet in the … Read the full Story >>
For a lot of people, just looking at the still and video work produced by photographer and director Corey Rich is enough to take their breath away or, in a lot of cases, give them an instant case of vertigo. Whether he's hanging off the face of Half Dome in Yosemite, plummeting down a waterfall in a kayak in a Mexican jungle or going … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Philadelphia? A: I was born in Eastern Kentucky, but I grew up in a bay town in Southern New Jersey. I now live in a small Quaker town just outside of Philadelphia, on the edge of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. My proximity to these overlooked wild areas and the forgotten fragments … Read the full Story >>
"A lot of photography is about the unexpected happening during the time that you do the work. So, it's not something that you can really predict," says Roger Ballen, the popular and influential photographer whose work plumbs the psychological recesses of the human mind. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ballen grew up in New York, where his mother worked for the Magnum Photo agency. … Read the full Story >>
John Cuneo loves to draw. Go to his website homepage and you'll see a heading that says "John Cuneo Drawings" (as well as a monkey with pens and coffee at a drawing table...). He's a masterful illustrator, artist, humorist, and visual storyteller whose work has appeared in just about every major magazine, and most of the smaller ones, too. Cuneo's ink and watercolor drawings … Read the full Story >>
ILLUSTRATION AS AN ART FORM I grew up in a working class family in rural upstate New York, surrounded by dairy farmers and deer hunters. But we had art, all done by members of our family filling every spare wall in our house. My Uncle Walt, a math teacher, painted the landscapes around Chautauqua Lake. My Aunt Ollie painted cats and ceramic ashtrays shaped like coiled rattlesnakes … Read the full Story >>
Peter Lindbergh. Jill Freedman. Robert Frank. Those were some of the notables in photography who died in 2019. Today we remember them, along with others whose passings we reported at Pro Photo Daily over the past year, including Marc Hauser, Karl Lagerfeld, Terry O'Neill, D.A. Pennebaker, John Shearer, Doreen Spooner, Orlando Suero, Jim Dunne, Walter Chandoha, Michael Putland, Michael Wolf, Ida Wyman, Steve Hiett, … Read the full Story >>
