ea. 122x94cm . oil on panel . © Ben Lowe 2012
photo taken in Covent Garden, London by Philip Durrant . courtesy of Spring & Mercer Max Kozloff wrote in 1967 that Arbus's photographs have "an extraordinary ethical conviction".
Also shown is 'A Beggar' by LS Lowry (c1965) You're one of those elephant hunters from Ebbsfleet
Primordial superman I know the trouble you've gotten in Leave this trouble half cottoned down Excerpt from 'Wayne Rooney' Strange to be living in NYC during hurricane Sandy. Some amazing photos have emerged, it's hard to imagine this photo was taken in Queens, it reminds me more of India. photo Spencer Platt NYC photographer, Helen Levitt (1913-2009). A self-taught, school drop-out... my kind of woman!
Levitt grew up in Brooklyn and focussed most of her attention on local street photography. Stop shaking, sweating, whining and regretting
You're making a scene that is gonna get you caught Hey look me in the barrel and tell me that you love me Yes this is a kiss that I swear will blow your mind Excerpt from 'Gun' he said come out and play
and it was all fun and games he asked me to dance and we danced his eyes where red and at the first brake of day my true love went away Excerpt from 'Red' During the late 1800s and early 1900s my family were merchants in London's Billingsgate market. I thought it was about time I got down there to see what the modern day Billingsgate was all about. Alarm set for 5am and wellies at the ready, I spent a morning photographing the traders and porters as they went about their business.
Porter . 78x61cm . oil on panel . 2012 Unsure why it's taken me so long to discover Graciela's photography.
Hugely inspiring and hard-hitting portraits. The New Gypsies © Iain McKell
A project spanning nearly Ten years. Raw portraits and breathtaking landscapes by a great British photographer. Ben Lowe’s latest collection, Crying the Unknown, is named after a poem written by Madge Hales and published in her 1955 book Dark Landscape. Catching sight of a dusty, tattered first edition of this book at a London market, Lowe was initially intrigued by the title, which echoes the brooding, abstract landscapes that abound in his own work. Over subsequent months he kept Hales’ book by his side and often delved into her poems during those strange, somnolent slices of time – familiar to any new parent – that punctuated his life following the birth of a son.
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