2011 Lecture on Contemporary Photography: “The Most Exciting Projects & Photographers I Learned About This Year.”

My latest project, Christmas in America: Happy Birthday, Jesus was featured in Mary Virginia Swanson’s spring 2011 lecture: “The Most Exciting Projects & Photographers I Learned About This Year.” The annual lecture is hosted by Rebecca Senf Ph.D, senior curator of the Center for Creative Photography and held at the Phoenix Art Museum. Above are stills and a video of my segment narrated by Swan and the occasional “awesome” from my father.

After the jump are the selected works and statements featured in the presentation.

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Isaac Salazar

Book art by Isaac Salazar. The pages are painstakingly folded with a few slices here and there.

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Hot Chip “I Feel Better”

Great track with a boy band, lasers, powder, and a black devil. Pretty much all things awesome.

J. Cole “Before I’m Gone”

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Off the arguably best new rapper/producer’s latest mixtape, Friday Night Lights. Download here.

Nine Eyes by Jon Rafman

Via Cool Hunting

This work is genius and always thought it be an interesting project. Kids with handguns, street luge action, bare asses and toilet paper after the jump.
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Painter Damien Correll

“Shape Studies”, gouache paintings by Damien Correll.

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Arcade Fire “The Suburbs” by Spike Jonze

Via hypebeast


As you would assume,  this is wonderful.
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Kawabe No Sumika by mA-style

Via dailytonic

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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

I have been a BLU fan for a while and had never seen this. Amazing. Over 8 million youtube hits amazing.

Painter Dan Witz