DALTON GHETTI

"DALTON GHETTI, who grew up in Brazil, has been carving since he was a schoolboy who sharpened his pencil with a razor or a pocketknife. He started big, with wood and stone, and then moved to carving soap, candles and even broom handles before he found his niche about 25 years ago.

"I'm known as the pencil guy," laughed Ghetti, 49. "I don't mind that at all."

He shuns a magnifying glass and uses simple tools like razor blades and needles to create delicate little figures - from a tiny, jagged handsaw to a minibust of Elvis in shades.

"The pencil has been kind of like a challenge to myself," he said. "I can do anything really big, but the small stuff is really difficult, so I was like, let me see how small I can go."

He works as a carpenter and carves pencils in his free time - often putting in just an hour or so before his eyes get tired. It can take years to finish an especially complicated piece - a linked chain in the middle of a pencil took him two years, and a carefully crafted giraffe even longer.

"When I'm inspired, I can sit down and things just flow," he said. "You can't force yourself to do those things. I do it just for fun, it's pretty much like a hobby, a kind of meditation work that I do."

Along with his other projects, Ghetti is slowly carving a tiny, graphite tear for every 9/11 victim, finishing one each morning before he goes to work, and estimates it will take him 10 years to finish and display them together.

Several years ago, he decided to carve the entire alphabet, and created one letter a month until he was done. Ghetti doesn't sell his creations, and even saves his failed attempts, pinned into a Styrofoam "graveyard."

"I do it from my heart, I do it when I feel like - and I pretty much do it for myself," he said. "It's my own interest in the small things in life that drove me to call people's attention to them." " (MORE @ NY DAILY NEWS)




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ADELINE MAI

ADELINE MAI
Studying photography. Lives in Paris.



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美撒GUO

I don't know much about 美撒GUO, except that each one of his photograph is filled with poetry and calmness. The light in his pictures is delicate and divine.

His pictures depict the life of workers and villagers, but where? In Tibet, China, Mongolia? I would surely love to know more about this fascinating photographer, but also about his location.

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BEN VAUTIER

Et surtout n'oubliez pas de tomber amoureux means And especially don't forget to fall in love


If you speak french (or not), you have to visit BEN VAUTIER's site. You're in for hours of pleasure and either you like his work or not, you can't stay indifferent and isn't this what art is all about?


BEN VAUTIER (born on July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy), also known simply as Ben, is a French artist.
Vautier lives and works in Nice, where he ran a record shop called Magazin between 1958 and 1973. He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp, the music of John Cage and joined the Fluxus artistic movement in the 1960s. In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu. In 1960, he had his first one-man show, Rien et tout in Laboratoire 32.
He is also active in Mail-Art and is mostly known for his text-based paintings; an example of the latter is his work "L'art est inutile. Rentrez chez vous" (Art is Useless, Go Home).
(WIKIPEDIA)


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ANN FIELD

ANN FIELD
An awarded and exhibited member of the Society of Illustrators of New York. Ann is also a former President of ICON, The Illustration Conference, a non-profit, bi-annual conference committed to promoting illustration and the understanding of it. In 2000, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, NY added Ann's work to part of its permanent collection. Currently, Ann serves as Chair of the Illustration Department at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California.

For 20 plus years, Ann's name has been synonymous with award winning, innovative images that cross the disciplines between design, photography and illustration. Her powerful work has been behind successful strategies for many leading brands: DIOR, Levis Jeans, Estee Lauder, Lexus, Nike, Barneys New York, Hard Rock Hotel, Starbucks Coffee, Mattel/Barbie, Madonna, Pentagram, Chronicle Books, and Herman Miller.


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GEOF KERN

GEOF KERN'S POP UP BOOK

GEOF KERN
Kern's best known work exists seamlessly in the dichotomous worlds of fashion and non-fashion. Among his award winning works are projects for Matsuda Tokyo with designer Yukio Kobayashi; and Neiman Marcus with creative directors Georigia Christensen and Tim Flannery. An advertising campaign photographed in 2001 for PNP-Paribas was put into the permanent collection of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris as an example of advertising art.

Recent advertising includes 55DSL, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Sony, Neiman Marcus, LG, and Interfaceflor. Kern has worked for most of the country's top publications, including GQ, Best Life, Travel+Leisure, Conde Nast Golf Digest, and the New York Times magazine.

Kern is based in Dallas where he maintains a studio to organize his shoots at home, New York, and elsewhere in the world.

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DIANNE BOS

"My work challenges the view of photography as a way to "capture an instant in time." By using pinhole cameras and long exposure times I record, not an instant, but rather the passage of time at a site. Viewers have said that my work evokes the memory-image that remains for them long after they have viewed a familiar location. I think this recognizes the importance I have always assigned to time, memory, and capturing the essence of the place, in my images of architectural icons and classic travelers destinations.

Much of my work centers around contemplative spaces and offers a meditation on time's movement within a still image. Time and light, movement and stillness, memory and the observer: these elements link all of the diverse images I create.

In response to my work curator Ihor Holubizky once wrote: 'The prolonged exposure time - three, five or ten minutes - is a transformative process that is inseparable from the alchemical process and phenomenon. The photographic moment can, by extension, be equated to the time it takes to hear a song, recount an event, read a letter, or remember how you got there, and back.' "(DIANNE BOS)



DIANNE BOS
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Bos received her B.F.A. from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick and currently divides her time between the foothills of the Rockies and the Pyrenees. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions since 1981 and are currently of featured in the nationally touring exhibitions Time and Space (University of Lethbridge Art Gallery) and Dark Matter: The Great War and Fading Memory (Confederation Centre of the Arts).

Bos''s photographic work has appeared in a number of international publications. Her garden photography and writing have been published in both Canadian, American and Japanese magazines. In 2005 she was awarded the National Magazine Gold Medal Award for a series on the adventures of medieval house buying in France.

Bos is represented by Jennifer Kostuik Gallery (Vancouver); Edward Day Gallery (Toronto); NewZones (Calgary), Colins, Lefebvre & Stoneberger (Montreal); Davis/ Waldron Gallery (Atlanta, Georgia).



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DAVID BIRKIN

DAVID BIRKIN /// CONFESSIONS

Sitters are asked to confess a secret they have never previously revealed.
They are left alone in a room facing a camera.
When they feel ready, they open the shutter and when they are finished, they close it.
Each photograph's exposure is determined by the lenght of time its subject chooses to speak.


DAVID BIRKIN
Born 21 November 1977. Lives and works in London.
Education:
MA Fine Art (Photography / Performance) Slade School of Fine Art 2009 - 11
BA Human Sciences (Anthropology) University of Oxford 1996 - 99


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KEVIN FRANCIS GRAY

KEVIN FRANCIS GRAY
Born 1972, in Northern Ireland. Lives and works in London.

Education
1995 National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
1996 School of Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1999 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK


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