Helen Levitt: her photographs and movies 1 year after her death

all images by Helen Levitt

"Helen Levitt found magic on the grimy streets of New York. Her photographs from the '30s and '40s capture the grit and vigor and humor of the city. And she kept on shooting for much of her life."
excerpt from an NPR Interview

Helen Levitt passed 1 year ago this March, Laurence Miller Gallery will begin a month long screening of an extraordinary 15-minute film she made with Janice Loeb and James Agee, "In the Street". It will be open to the public and is free.

I'm sure there will be plenty of her work around the city this coming month so look for it.

20 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

Man Ray Exhibition

Visit the blog at http://www.marlonkrieger.com/blog.html

Man Ray, The Art of Reinvention at the Jewish Museum
Through March 14th, 2010
5th Avenue at 92nd street
thejewishmuseum.org

Legendary Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is noted for his photograms, which he renamed "rayographs" after himself.

Congratulations to Lu Guang

Congratulations to Lu Guang for winning the coveted Grant in Humanistic Photography by the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. He has created striking imagery over the past 5 years documenting the ecological disasters in China.

Born in 1961 in Zhejiang Province, China, Lu Guang has been enamored with photography from the moment he held the camera for the first time in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown of Yongkang County. From 1993 to 1995, he studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Tsinghua University in Beijing. A freelancer since 1993, his focus has been stories on major social and environmental issues in his own country. His photographic projects include essays on gold diggers, small coal mines, the SARS epidemic, drug addiction, AIDS villages in Henan Province, the Qinghai-Tibet railway.

Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of the economy since 2005, focusing on environmental pollution and the problem of schistosomiasis (bilharzia). Over the last three decades, peoples' living standards have constantly been on the rise in the country. At the same time, industrial pollution has brought serious consequences for public health and for the environment at large.

Addiction & Love

If you can't see the video please follow this link:
http://www.marlonkrieger.com/blog.html

a slide show Addiction & Love

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

A powerful look into a woman's institutional ward in the late 70's. The remarkably candid comments of the inmates is seamlessly pieced together by Karen Folger Jacobs. With her photography Mary Ellen Mark leaves no doubt in your mind of the horror and medieval state of mental institutions but manages to show the inmates distressed humanity with a dignity that humanizes her subjects who are at times treated very much less than that. A stark and shockingly insightful book.

Ward 81.
Photography by Mary Ellen Mark; foreword by Milos Forman; text by Karen Folger Jacobs.
Damiani, 2008. 96 pp., 85 duotone illustrations., 13x9".

www.maryellenmark.com

Willie Graff

Thank you Dj Willie Graff
www.myspace.com/williegraff




The song included in the video below is courtesy of Willie Graff.
"When The Sun Goes Down" (Original) by Willie Graff & Tuccillo

The Amulet Collection™

The Amulet Collection ™

These Images are part of the Amulet Collection™ and are based on the 12 Zodiacs. Below are a few of the shots and although the final project contained one pose per sign, below you will find that they overlap and not all are included.

Nancy Danino: Outtakes from "Millionaire in the Rain"

These are stills taken from the filming of Millionaire in the Rain.
The Music Video is still in the production stages.

Nancy Danino: Millionaire in the Rain
Styling: Laurence Renard
Make-up/Hair: Fumi Nagai
Directed: Marlon Krieger

China: A trailer

This is an excerpt from the trailer exhibited at "Short and Sweet" in London about a year ago:

Tedd Patterson: Portraits

A Private session with Dj Tedd Patterson

Thank you Tedd!
Sound on!

"Room1305" Slide Show

Room 1305

The newest chapter in a long Series. Thank you to all who where involved.
Model: Mercedes Renard
Hair & Make-up: Fumi Nagai
Styling: Laurence Renard

Volume up!
I have posted a behind the scenes as well as a slideshow.





To view the images go to:
Flickr
and click slide show.

Mechante of London Spring/Summer 2009 Collection

Another season with Mechante of London:

The shoot for the Spring/Summer 2009 Look Book and catalog was a roaring success. We had a great time on set, I think the model suffered most as she had to sit through a painstaking two hours of body paint. But it was well worth it. The look book should be out in a couple weeks, check the Mechante of London website for updates. Thank you to LumenHouse for a wonderful space

Here is a video of the actual shoot:

And here is a little slide show of the images: