Wolfgang Tillmans at Andrea Rosen Gallery

New York Magazine has a great review of Tillman's newest show at Andrea Rosen. I'm hoping to see it soon.

Photo by Andrea Rosen Gallery. Artwork copyright Wolfgang Tillmans.

To Die For

Sondra Gilman, theater producer and educator has one of the most amazing photography collections out there. Her house was featured in New York Social Diaries House series. The top photo features the photograph 'Walking Gun' by Laurie Simmons. The next photo of her stairway has works by Imogen Cunningham and Ray Metzger. She has photos by Sally Mann and Andres Serrano. Take a look at the rest of the tour, it's pretty incredible.

All photos by Jeffrey Hirsch of New York Social Diary.

For My True Love

For Valentine's Day I sent my true love this valentine. It arrived yesterday. It is truly beautiful.

My Father's Polaroids

My father went to Mexico, just after Christmas. He brought his new Polaroid SX-70 camera with him. I'm really in love with what he brought back. More images on my flickr.

Copyright John Joplin, all rights reseved.

Polaroid Display

I bought the book Apartment Therapy Presents: Real People, etc. at the Westsider sometime ago and am slowly making my way through it. I was struck today by Shannon and Emmett's cool digs in Chicago. They converted an old factory into a home and art studio. I love the entire place but am really excited about how they displayed Emmet's 4 x 5 artwork slides. They placed the slides in light boxes above their bed giving the whole room a romantic glow: I'd love to do something similar - which got me thinking about Polaroid display ideas. Here are a few:

Olivia's simple "Polaroid Wall":Using "mystery strips" from Home Depot:I like the quiet simplicity of this one:
And I love this one, too:
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Polaroids and Tim Burton

Lately I have become a tad obsessed with the Polaroid (I bought myself an SX-70, and thanks to Polapremium, have the film to go with it). After seeing what I thought was Tim Burton's entire show at the MoMA, I walked around it again, somewhat frantically, trying to catch a glimpse of one of the large scale Polaroids that I had read about. No such luck. I finally found them, however, tucked away in the basement. A guard had to unlock the elevator to let us down there. But, oh! What a fabulous room it was! Tim Burton used a 20 x 24 Polaroid camera, an extremely large-scale camera to make beautifully vibrant photos of such things as fake plants in the desert and his dog with antler ears. William Wegman also used the 20 x 24 camera to take some of those famous dog photos. There are less than a dozen of these cameras in existence and after Polaroid decided it was no longer in the business of making instant film, they were all going to be destroyed. Luckily, in NYC, a team purchased all of the remaining chemistry and one of the cameras and have set up shop in Soho at the 20x24 Studio. Due to the recent bankruptcy hullabaloo, the Polaroid Collection, a vast collection of Polaroid photography from some of the world's most talented photographers, will likely be sold off piece by piece, including photos made with the 20x24.

Photos by Tim Burton.

Found Bicycle Photos

I enjoy collecting found photos, usually in themes. I was collecting photos of old cars, then swimming photos and now bicycles.