GIZMON ICA IPHONE 5 CASE

Posted on 2013-02-04

The Gizmon iCA case is now available for the iPhone 5. Rather than just redesigning it and making it compatible with the new iPhone, the makers of the case have added a series of new functions to it.

Transforming your iPhone into a working rangefinder camera, the case now also comes with a built in and working shutter button. Also the Gizmon iCA comes with a built in viewfinder, a new leather case and strap in several colors and of course with a series of add-on lenses: Fisheye, Polarizing, Center Focus, Cross Screen (starburst) and the 3 image mirage filter

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JAMES SMITH – TEMPORAL DISLOCATION

Posted on 2013-02-04

Smith uses photography to capture evidence of man’s contemporary and historical relationship with landscape, and the nuances of activity that are made manifest by edifices and constructions within it. From Brutalist architecture to towering stacks of hay, these dislocated forms of quasi ‘sculptures’ are evidential signs of power, class and labour.

Temporal Dislocation explores the fine line between stability and impermanence, and the inexorably cyclical nature of the physical environment after human intervention. A primary intent of the work is to expose how form follows function in order to reveal the inherent aesthetics and resonances contained within that of ‘the found’.

Underpinning the work is a desire to bridge the divide between the photographer’s explicit framing of the constructed landscape and the casual viewer’s benign, unknowing or unconscious dismissal of its functions and attributes.

Exhibition runs through till March 8th, 2013

Photofusion
17A Electric Lane
London
Brixton
SW9 8LA

www.photofusion.org

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TREVOR PAGLEN

Posted on 2013-02-04

Commissioned by Creative Time, Paglen worked with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce a disc micro-etched with 100 photographs, designed to last in space for billions of years. The project culminated in November of 2012 when the disc was attached to a communications satellite and launched from Kazakhstan into Earth’s orbit.The exhibition includes a selection of key images from The Last Pictures.

Among the large color prints and black-and-white diptychs is Angelus Novus (2012), a photograph of the backside of Paul Klee’s 1920 painting of the same name. Once owned by Walter Benjamin, the painting is an important reference in the philosopher’s last work “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1940). In the essay Benjamin argues for a circular conception of history, one recognizing that despite the notion of progress, societies produce and reproduce similar economic, humanitarian, and political crises. For Benjamin, the “angel of history” faces the past and is propelled backwards into the future by the ongoing explosions of the present. By presenting the back of the painting, Paglen asks his audience to look back at the ongoing crisis of the present.

Additionally, there is a grid of 182 images collected for the project but ultimately excluded and a video of the satellite in orbit. Also exhibited are photographs, “skyscapes,” of nearly undetectable surveillance drones in a seemingly empty field, a massive National Security Agency data center under construction in suburban Utah, and secret satellites in the night’s sky. Paglen’s images are both documents of clandestine military operations and a contribution to the history of photographic abstraction, following in the tradition of Alfred Stieglitz’s landmark “Equivalents” series of imposing clouds in an inordinately black sky.

Opposite – EchoStar XVI launch in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, November 21st 2012

Exhibition runs through till March 9th, 2013

Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011

www.metropicturesgallery.com

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