Yearly Archives: 2012

Dietmar Busse

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Dietmar Busse (b. 1966, Stolzenau, Germany) is a New York–based artist whose work transcends traditional photography through radical darkroom experimentation and chemical painting. He began his career in fashion and editorial photography before retreating from commercial constraints around 2006 to pursue deeply personal, process-driven work. Busse’s signature practice involves camera-less techniques and modifications to photographic surfaces—applying developer, dyes, inks, and bleaches directly to paper—which produce images that blur the boundaries between photography, painting, and memory. His series such as Flora and Fauna and My Life as a Flower transform portraits into dreamlike, symbol-laden compositions. Recent solo exhibitions include Fairytales 1991–1999 at Amant in Brooklyn and The Lives of Birds at Fierman in New York. His work has been featured internationally in publications like Time and The New Yorker and displayed in venues including the Museum Schloss Moyland, Invisible-Exports, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Larry Clark

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Larry Clark first made a name for himself when he revolutionized documentary photography in his classic book “Tulsa,” released in 1971, in which he presented straightforward, autobiographical images of violence, drug use, and adolescent sexuality. While Tulsa earned Clark a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for use toward his next project, that work was delayed over a decade by the artist’s heroin addiction and a stretch in Oklahoma’s McAlester Penitentiary. Eventually, Clark completed his second and equally innovative body of work titled “Teenage Lust,” in which he largely shifted his focus from drug culture to sexual obsession.

Bill Costa (1944-1995)

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Bill Costa was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts—an important fishing port and artist colony. He showed artistic promise at an early age and studied drawing with a local artist and then at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He turned to photography after leaving a successful corporate career, and had his first show in New York City in 1975. Costa’s photographs have been featured in many magazines, and have been included in numerous exhibitions across the United States and Europe.