While thousands of who's whos swarmed and sweated PS1's halls this weekend for Printed Matter's MOMA PS1 Art Book Fair and we broke our budgets big time (thanks Conveyor Arts, S_U_N, Daniel Shea and, and Diagonal Press for having the best stuff in the world), roving outside were a band of super smart punks taking celebrity for storm with de-authored prints (and one edition of apparently authorized photocopied editions of Alec Soth's Broken Manual) from history-of photographers.
Foam's Deputy Director Marcel Feil introduces this year's Talent issue with an essay that poses a simple, yet increasingly relevant question: What constitutes true artistic talent? How do we distinguish between artists who have a spark, who create visually appealing and thoughtful work, from those who are truly “outstanding” and perhaps promise a coveted place in the future cannon of photographic history?
In case you haven’t heard, we jumped on the Instagram bandwagon a bit late in the game this past summer with our conveniently titled online show #latergram, featuring Instagram work from some of our favorite emerging and household name photographers.
In photography's early days, many believed it had the ability to capture a person's soul, spectres and supernatural presence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2005 exhibition Photography and the Occult explored this phenomenon with a particular focus on early ghost photography dating back to the 1850s.
At Humble Arts Foundation, every day is Feline Friday. Or Caturday. Or Hissunday. It's getting to be a bit of a problem. In celebration of our undying love for cats, our late "hissSummer" show will exclusively feature cats, titled New Cats in Art Photography.
