Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1969. In 1989 she left East Germany for Munich, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. From 1990–96, she studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Trained as a painter, Lux began taking photographs in 1999. Although Lux first experimented with self-portraits in works like The Hush (1999) and Self-Portrait (2000), she soon transitioned to images of children and adolescents, typically the offspring of friends who she often used as models. Her subjects, with gazes ambiguously empty yet psychologically activated, assume formal poses and appear in calculated garb and hairstyles. Employing photography, painting, and computer manipulation, Lux alters the images, extracting extraneous details, distorting proportions, and setting the children against mediated backgrounds that exist somewhere between Old Master paintings and cheesy studio-portrait backdrops. Lux’s earliest works set children against icy blue skies, for example in Troll (2000), Lois (2000), and Isabella (2001). In 2001, while the skies continued to serve as backdrops in some works, Lux began to increasingly stage her images within barren pale pink interiors; such images include Hidden Rooms (2001) and Study of a Girl (2002). In several works including The Book (2003), Lux borrowed poses from Balthus, endowing those works with the rigidity and sense of perversion that characterized the French artist’s oeuvre. Lux moved to Ireland in 2004 and increasingly depicted pairs of children rather than the solitary figures that occupied her earlier work. In her images of siblings like The Walk (2004), The Irish Girls (2005), and Hugo and Dylan (2006), the figures are psychologically isolated and physically interact quite gingerly with minimal and half-hearted gestures, perhaps an arm around a shoulder. Lux photographed the twins Sasha and Ruby (2005), girls who again sat for multiple images the artist produced in 2008. In 2007 Lux created her first self-portrait in seven years, this time occupying the pale blue and pink world of the children and bearing their ambiguous, confounding expression.
All images from Loretta Lux’s website: LorettaLux.de
We #celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday. From photographers of all levels to projects you have made or those that inspire you to make, we’re on it! Got a tip? Well, send it in!
If you’re interested in making your own project and need some gear, we’ve got you covered. Be sure to check out our Raspberry Pi accessories and our DIY cameras.
for real, what if we treated every revolt like we treat Ferguson and Baltimore. :/
So I totally forgot this when I posted this, but the first 2 pictures are prints of the Boston Massacre, which is considered one of the major events that lead Colonial settlers of America to revolt against Great Britain. Due to tense relations over a new shipping tariff, and the murder of an 11 year old boy by a customs employee, a crowd of colonists began arguing with a group of British Guards, many spitting, cursing and throwing rocks at them. The 8 British Soldiers later fired into the crowd, killing 3 people and wounding 6 others, two of which later died of their wounds.
The first victim of the Boston Massacre was Crispus Attucks, a mixed-race man of African and Native America descent. He actually lead the crowd that rioted against the British.
“Funny” enough, John Adams (2nd U.S President John Adams.) actually defended the British Soldiers who opened fire on the crowd. He called the crowd “a motley rabble of saucy boys, negros and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs.“ (source) He even claimed Attucks himself to be “undertaken to be the hero of the night,” and with having precipitated a conflict by his “mad behavior.”
Regardless, what happened afterwards we already know. I think it’s important for everyone to remember:
The United States is built upon protesting the murder of an innocent black man by a corrupt, authoritative police force.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center just shared these fascinating satellite photos taken in January 2014 over the shallow waters around Sisan Island, South Korea. The tiny patchwork of small squares are entire fields of seaweed that are held in place with ropes and buoys to keep the plants near the surface during high tide but off the seafloor in low tide. Via NASA Earth Observatory:
Since 1970, farmed seaweed production has increased by approximately 8 percent per year. Today, about 90 percent of all the seaweed that humans consume globally is farmed. That may be good for the environment. In comparison to other types of food production, seaweed farming has a light environmental footprint because it does not require fresh water or fertilizer.
You can see much more of what’s happening at NASA lately by following the Goddard Space Flight Center on Flickr.
Pentagon Releases Annual Survey On Sexual Assault in Military 610kvnu Mika Makelainen/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon released its annual report on sexual assaults in the military on Friday, which included new analysis of the links between sexual harassment in the workplace and sexual assault, as well as ...
Interactive audio visual installation by WOW inc turns Scalextric-like racing into a minimal lightshow:
The installation of light and sound “Ray of Formula 1”; part of the
exhibition “The F1”, was held in March 2015 and WOW was in charge of
creating, planning and directing this artwork.
This artistic interactive installation uses sound and light to celebrate
the passion, the soul and the racing heartbeat of the F1 driver.
By using a controller to manipulate light, you too can experience what it’s like to be an F1 driver.
By manipulating the trajectory of light, the whole race track appears,
and a life-size F1 car races down the main straight at incredible speeds
right in front of your eyes.
In Seattle, police said black-clad marchers threw wrenches, sticks and rocks at officers in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood Friday evening, injuring three officers, two of them seriously. Police responded with pepper spray and pepper balls and arrested a half dozen people. Several dozen vehicles were damaged, police said.
"This is no longer demonstration management, this has turned into a riot," said Capt. Chris Fowler, who was overseeing police response to May Day activities in the city.
Mayor Ed Murray said police would work to protect people and property "and will make arrests when necessary."
A daytime worker and immigrant rights rally that drew hundreds of people in Seattle was peaceful, but tensions flared during the evening event, which was billed as an anti-capitalist march.
In Portland, Oregon, authorities said an unruly crowd hurled projectiles and chairs at officers Friday evening. Police there temporarily closed a major bridge over the Willamette River during the height of the evening commute and pepper sprayed some demonstrators when a May Day march deviated from its permitted route through downtown.
Police said one officer was assaulted and was taken to a precinct for medical treatment.
Super Opinionated.
