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A Life Left Behind

Posted on April 20, 2012

Little World-1

Posted on February 5, 2011

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Artist Statement

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The aesthetic goal is to have the images look like miniature scenes through the tilt and shift style of photography. By doing this, the images become more vivacious and inviting. This allows the viewer to rediscover the locations. Representing the locations this way – enables the viewer to reconnect with childhood by recalling the feeling of living in a smaller world where scale seemed less cumbersome. Viewers can recall creating scenes of playing with Lego’s or action figures. These images are reminiscent of childhood memories in hopes of inspiring a playful and innocent feature from that time frame into my images.

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To learn more about Bryan Solarski’s photographic work, log on to www.BryanSolarski.com.

In My Body

Posted on December 27, 2010

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……….As I walked through the crowded opening at the Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia, I noticed several models that were familiar to the Studio, but depicted in a way uniquely imagined by the gifted mixed media artist Leah MacDonald. A 20 year retrospective exhibition of her work is in its last week at the Old City gallery located at 201 North Third Street. I highly recommend seeing the exhibit before it closes on December 31, 2010. To learn more about Leah Macdonald’s work log on to www.LeahMacdonald.com.

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Black Spring

Posted By Bob Asman

These images are Noir.  They are common images in common places.  They are accessible in almost any small town in America. 

Motorlodge

These are real photographs on silver film and silver prints done expressively; in anger, because a bunch of kleptomaniacs on Wall Street have so much power. 

Statute In Landscape

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Signage

I hope the photographs convey a sense of surrealism and foreboding because as an historian of the day-type-artist, that’s what it feels like today. 

Bag Of leaves

These photographs are the Noir debris of our times.

Type O Negative Fan

Posted by Alejandra Guerrero

……….TW I didn’t tell you the OTHER part of why I took these pics, besides that I was feeling all pretty, the reality of things…. I was very sad that day because I woke up to find out that Peter Steele, singer of one of my fave bands, Type O Negative had died the night before of heart failure.

He Even Gave Me A Kiss

I’ve been a Type O Negative fan since I was 15 and I had a personal fascination for Pete, maybe it was because I found him so frightening that I thought he was sexy. He was tall, his long black hair, deep green eyes, kind of Vampire looking, very masculine and seeing photos of him in Playgirl magazine at the end of the 90s, he was proportional to his height, he was 6’7” ! He had been in my fantasies for a long time… I often Googled, looking for stuff on him.

Better yet, I met him twice 10 years ago. The first time he even gave me a kiss! He was very nice and had this awesome dark sense of humor. I took some photos but they were ruined by accident processing the film. The ones with me… I thought then, I’ll see him again, take other ones, never did… 

RIP Pete, you are going to be very missed.

To learn more about Alejandra Guerrero’s work log on to www.Alt-Er-Ego.com.

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……….Our cover subject for the month of April, Alejandra Guerrero is a very talented model as well as accomplished photographer. Ms. Guerrero recently sent this series of pictures to the studio, as she was excited to play with “florescent” light. The result’s from her self-portrait session’s are always quite remarkable.

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To learn more about Alejandra Guerrero’s work log on to www.alt-er-ego.com.

Selfy

Posted By Alejandra Guerrero

I have this series I’ve been producing for a while called “Dressing Rooms.” Basically, I am trying on clothes and taking photos while doing so, in all sorts of different stores and dressing rooms, in various cities where I travel. The idea came to me in 2004, when I saw this gorgeous Valentino dress at a Filene’s Basement in Chicago. Even though it was a discount store it was still 2000 dollars!

I was carrying my first digital camera, and it occurred to me to take a photo wearing the dress. I showed the picture to a friend who lived close by, a make-up artist with Nars, and I thought about re-doing the shot but a little bit more glamorous. So he did my hair and make up and  I returned to the store and told the lady at the dressing room to let me take some photos, so that my boyfriend would see how great it looked, so he would buy it for me.

Some time later my passion for shopping and taking photos blended together as I kept doing the same type of guerrilla shots, of course not telling anyone I was doing so, trying clothes on, being seductive, provocative, funny, ironic  or whatever mood I felt and trying of course not to get caught. In my mind I thought if I couldn’t have the clothes, I can at least have a photo of me wearing them. Sometimes I have tried clothes I’d never wear or I would love to wear, ranging from lingerie, trashy, couture and ready to wear fashion.

Self Portrait By Alejandra Guerrero

…..The studio is happy to announce that Alejandra Guerrero, a photographer we have recently featured, has been invited to participate in the publication of The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography, Carlton Books, London in 2010. We have asked guest blogger Mikel Elam to comment about her self portrait or “selfy” entitled, “Faded”, Los Angeles, 2006……

Mikel Elam; “There is an other worldly quality to the self portrait of Alejandra Guerrero. A woman caught between two dimensions. The transference of energy has resulted in an interesting aura of colors intermixed with mist like shadows. As she stares into the camera, the self portrait is very telling of a woman confronting something or someone.”

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