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The Suicide Series

A Houston native, Bill Thomas is a photographer known for photos of elaborate, morbidly humorous ways to commit suicide. The Artist in his own words: “The SUICIDE series attempts to deal with the taboo social-psychological content in an ironic way, looking at suicide from both serious and humorous perspectives. The photographs consist of self-constructed and directed tableaux in which I am seen committing suicide by a variety of outrageous means. I attempt to further the believabilit...

Nail Art by Marcus Levine

Nail Art by Marcus Levine Yorkshire sculptor Marcus Levine uses more than 50000 steel nails to express the human form in his London show. Source:

Ordinary things in an unusual perspective

A selection of good photographs of every days things taken with a different perspective.

VENICE by Chris Anthony

Corey Helford Gallery is proud to present “Venice”, the solo exhibition of new works by award-winning Los Angeles photographer Chris Anthony. For his third solo show with the Gallery, Anthony creates an extraordinary world in flux where the moody tides of fact and fiction converge. As global warming causes ocean levels to rise and the melting of Antarctic Ice sheets, a mysterious sinking civilization is unveiled, entitled “Venice”. Inhabited by aquatic survivors and enchanting lost souls, “Venic...

Cockroach Artist

Cockroach Artist image credits www.nevsedoma.com.ua

The many faces of Pablo Picasso

Picasso was the first rock-star artist, whose wild visions gripped the public imagination and changed 20th-century art for ever. But his flamboyant personality divided opinion. Was he a playful genius, as some suggest, or a capricious and cruel misanthrope who left battered lives in his wake? On the eve of a new show in London, we speak to his closest friends and family in a bid to unravel the enigma Pablo Picasso in his Cannes studio, 1956. Photograph: Arnold Newman/Getty Images "Pica...