Online Features of Photoicon http://www.photoicon.com Tue, 22 May 2012 11:05:33 -0600 PHOTOICON Feed Generator http://www.photoicon.com/templates/images/logo.png http://www.photoicon.com Feed provided by photoicon.com All rights reserved. Copyright©2012 Photoicon. features http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/42/ Creating any collection can be a difficult task. From children’s passion for certain objects which starts them off to the sophisticated collections that have, for centuries, been a basis of the world’s greatest museums and which have given so many of us a visual education.
]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:06:47 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/42/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/41/ Sølve Sundsbø (b. 1970 in Norway) has lived in London for 14 years and finds it ‘an incredibly inspirational place to be’. ‘It is essential to leave a small place like Norway if you want to develop,’ he says. His imaginative photography has taken the London scene by storm.
]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:04:50 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/41/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/40/ Lovisa Ringborg (b. 1979 in Linköping, Sweden) now lives in Göteborg, where she finished her MA in Photography last year. A successful photographer already, she’s shown at the Hasselblad Center, Red Stone and World Culture Museum in Göteborg, Linköpings Konsthall, Rotwand Gallery in Zürich and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.
]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:03:24 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/40/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/39/ Morten Krogvold (b. 1950 in Oslo, Norway) is one of the renowned Norwegian portraitists and lecturers. His photographic encounters with international stars such as Sinéad O’Connor, Liv Ullmann, Queen Sonja of Norway and Nelson Mandela, are included in a recent book Images. Krogvold is the Artistic Director of Nordic Light International Photo Festival and has shown his work at many international exhibitions, including the USA, China and France.
]]> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:03:10 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/39/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/38/ Over a decade before the 1935 introduction of Kodachrome colour film by Eastman Kodak, a subtractive colour process was developed that made it possible to create vivid prints from black & white negatives. The tricolour carbro transfer printing process - or carbro - demanded strict technical control but produced highly-saturated and permanent colour prints.
]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:02:15 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/38/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/37/ In recent years, the interest in photography as an art form has grown in Denmark. Visual artists are increasingly working with photography at a professional level. This is partly due to educational opportunities provided by Photo laboratory at the Royal Academy of Arts, and at Fatamorgana, the Danish photographic visual arts school.
]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:02:23 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/37/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/34/ Was Marilyn Monroe destined to become a legend? Or was it that first set of photographs by André de Dienes that lit the fuse and sent her into global orbit?
]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:01:08 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/34/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/33/ Entering the Met’s central hall with its traditional classical columns, soaring marble staircase and elaborate floral displays back in 2003, surprised visitors were greeted by huge video projections. The Thomas Struth retrospective had overflowed into the Great Hall - the first time in the museum’s 138-year history that work by a living artist had featured in this grand public space. It was a taste of things to come!
]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:01:30 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/33/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/31/ With a long career comes reflection. In the case of Sarah Moon, the passing of time has done little to dull the magical quality of her work. Her photography lives in a mysterious place between waking and dreaming, art and fashion. This place never seems to age, as its themes are often taken from myth, fantasy and fairytale residing in a dislocated familiarity and strangeness.
]]> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:12:24 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/31/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/30/ It's personal, it's cool, it's raw. It's my-time photography
]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:12:31 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/30/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/29/ Mainstream press photographers who successfully transferred their skills to document the emerging goliath of Rock’n’Roll are few. British society snapper Harry Hammond is justly regarded as the capo di tutti capi of this elite gang.
]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:10:22 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/29/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/28/ PHOTOICON is indebted to Elliott Landy for his generous permission to extract from his extensive writings on photography and the philosophy of Sixties culture to accompany his personal selection of images for this feature.
]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:10:25 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/28/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/27/ Annie Leibovitz: as the first lady of rock photography hits London on an international tour of her life’s work, the Rolling Stone years are recalled...
]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:10:38 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/27/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/26/ The inaugural Sony World Photo Awards 2008 have been judged a successful start to a five-year cycle of similar events. PHOTOICON went undercover amidst the boulevards and Palaces of Cannes to savour a heady mix of champagne, celebrity and snaps.
]]> Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:10:54 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/26/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/25/ The Beat Goes On. The spirit of the Sixties returns in creative collaborations between the camera and the music.
]]> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:10:07 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/25/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/18/ The unprecedented number of outlets for images in today’s global media republic is beginning to be counter productive. As never before, artists have to fight for recognition in the visual cacophony that is the modern world.
]]> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:08:04 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/18/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/20/ The beauty of flowers is fleeting. The moment they are cut for the vase the beauty fades, as if the act of display carries with it the seeds of decay and ruin. Is it the same with a beautiful woman? A beautiful man? It's enough to say here that for Peter Arnold, it was photographing beautiful women for the glamour mags that took him out to relax in his London garden and, workaholic that he is, he couldn't resist the exotic blooms bursting with life and colour.
]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:03:04 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/20/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/17/ THE POLONAIR GALLERY in the centre of Vienna offers a perfect example of what can be achieved via that peculiar phenomenon of 'viral marketing'. To the outsider it is an unassuming store tucked away behind the city's old-town Museum Quarter, but to initiates within the ever-growing Polaroid subculture, it is a Mecca for all things SX-70 and retro-caustic-process.
]]> Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:10:24 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/17/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/16/ Of all the visual arts, fashion is the most powerful. A crazy statement? Not when put into context.
]]> Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:10:01 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/16/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/15/ We live in a cynical world. Aside from newspaper journalists, perhaps those who confront this form of 21st century aggressive ennui most frequently are photographers. Front line troops in the battle to preserve something of the finer aspects of humanity whilst ensuring no falsehood goes un-noted.
]]> Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:09:48 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/15/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/12/ Photographers are buzzing. Galleries are expanding. New bookshops are opening. The busy, multi-ethnic multitudes of Europe's greatest capital live the image. London is happening. PhotoIcon has sent its writers out to find out where.
]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:06:31 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/12/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/8/ The first time I saw them ' or pictures like them ' I was sitting in a barber's chair, somewhere in London, some time in the mid-60s. I am hazy on the geographical and chronological details. But I am still completely clear about my reaction. Not: I am attracted to her. Strangely, it was: she is attracted to me. I do not desire her: she desires me.
]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:06:05 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/8/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/9/ In September 2004 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Salvador Dalì, the critically-acclaimed Sex, Surrealism, Dalì and Me ' the story of Carlos Lozano's long association with the painter, was republished in a new edition by Tethered Camel as The Sex Life of Salvador Dalì. In the following excerpt, Carlos Lozano describes his first brush with Hollywood stars, the room with the glass floor and how the great surrealist charmed his guests out of their clothes.
]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:06:16 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/9/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/6/ Fifty years ago DH Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned as being "too explicit" in the High Court in London. The ruling was lifted in the more tolerant sixties. When the book was finally released the first run of 200,000 copies sold out in a day.
]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:03:31 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/6/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/5/ Craig’s light measurements must be meticulous and his rigid adherence to procedure must never waver. It is precisely this commitment that in part makes A Voice Within so special.
]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:03:53 -0600 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/5/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/11/ Nothing records the moment like an image on film and no film has revolutionized photography more than Polaroid. It’s pure magic watching the picture appear before our eyes. But it takes a special kind of magic to draw us into the image and hold us in its embrace.
]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:02:11 -0700 http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/11/ http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/4/ Look at the images of Klaus Kampert and you’d never know he is a self-taught photographer. So crisp and clear is his vision and so flawless its execution, one could easily compare him to the likes of Helmut Newton or Imogen Cunningham. Not bad for a man who learned the rules of his craft without the benefit of formal instruction.
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