03. agosto 2015

The street photography series “New York Up & Down” is a fascinating glimpse of New York City in the 1980s by photographer Frank Horvat. Horvat began photographing 70 years ago and his career has spanned photojournalism, fashion, and advertising. He talks about “New York Up & Down” in this L’Oeil de la Photographie article. But if they were measured by their emotional intensity, the years in New York would count twice as much… This is what I tried to convey by the words ‘up...

24. giugno 2015

For the past seven decades, 90-year-old San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon has been documenting his hometown in gorgeous street photography. His photographs spanning the period 1940 to 1960 have been collected in his beautiful new photo book San Francisco, Portrait of a City: 1940-1960. With a landmark around every corner and a picture perfect view atop every hill, San Francisco might be the world’s most picturesque city. And yet, the Golden City is so much more than postcard vistas. It’s...

11. maggio 2015

Argentina-based street artist Guri adds whimsical cartoonish characters to otherwise drab buildings in his delightful street art. While most of his murals adorn a wall or a building facade, occasionally Guri will transform an entire structure into a character: Windows become eyes, and illusions of depth are created with anamorphic techniques.

08. maggio 2015

New York City-based street artist JerkFace has recently created a large mural featuring Ren Höek and Stimpson J. “Stimpy” Cat, the main animated characters from The Ren & Stimpy Show, outside of Grandma Rose’s Pizza in Brooklyn, New York.

24. aprile 2015

Massive pieces by street artists Ella & Pitr in their hometown of Saint-Etienne. Ella & Pitr is a French artist duo who has thus become in a decade as a legendary duo “Papers Painters” of street art. Born respectively in 1984 and 1981, randomly on a street they met: one seeking how to speak most directly to a non-selected audience, the other imagining a logical extension of 10 years graffiti. Today their warehouse is located in Saint Etienne (France) and the Street remains their...

22. aprile 2015

Artist Charles Leval (aka Levalet) adorns the streets of Paris with playful street art installations that take advantage of urban fixtures, garbage, and other detritus. We previously posted about his street art installation Dance Macabre last year.