28 Camera Drawings by Christine Berrie
Photographer's Dilemma, by Tatsuro Kiuchi
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Tuesday Edition: Christine Berrie & Tatsuro Kiuchi
Photographer's Dilemma
10"x8"($20) | 14"x11"($50) | 20"x16" ($200)
by
Tatsuro Kiuchi
28 Camera Drawings
10"x8"($20) | 14"x11"($50) | 20"x16" ($200)
by
Christine Berrie
Tuesday greetings, collectors, and a very happy first day of December to you! It's Youngna here today in complete disbelief that we are in the final month of 2009, heading full speed towards the bustle of the holidays. Today also kicks off the very first of our 12 Days of Festivus: that's twelve consecutive weekdays of new editions embedded with extra-special deals just for you. If you did not pick up a print (or two or three) during yesterday's 200-minute-Cyber-Monday sale, do not fret, we have lots more opportunities coming your way starting right now with another very-limited-200-minute-special:
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Today's two new editions Photographer's Dilemma and 28 Camera Drawings come from two international illustrators: Tatsuro Kiuchi, who makes his home in Japan, and Christine Berrie, who resides in Scotland. Though neither of these artists are shutterbugs themselves, their affection for the nobs and bolts that comprise cameras—and the memories these instruments capture—manifest in chromatically rich representations of the photographer's beloved tool.
For Christine, whose previous editions Industrial Part 1 and Industrial Part 2, colorfully articulate the inner-workings of switches, wires, sockets, pipes and electrical boxes, her typology of these twenty-eight vintage cameras further speaks to her love for deconstructing gadgets and gizmos down to each lever and dial. She also acknowledges both the collector and nerd in each of us, selecting to depict models like the Polaroid Land Camera 1000 whose trademark rainbow stripes emanate from beneath the lens and the Ilford Sprite 35, a boxy, cheap 35mm model of the 1940s that came with a distinct and propriety snap-on flash gun.
Besides, who among us did not rejoice when learning that The Impossible Project, the organization formed to fire up an old Polaroid factory and restart production of instant film succeeded in garnering enough support for their mission? The idea of losing these sentimental tools tugs on real heartstrings. And, even more than physically wanting to have these old cameras and packs of film in our hands, we want to know that they are still available to us.
Tatsuro, whose In the Ballpark you saw here during the Yankees' victory in the World Series, depicts a photographer buried beneath rubble with camera in hands. His photographer faces a crisis of seeing, separated from the context of what the camera is aiming to shoot. The arm reaches up, aiming blindly, hoping to catch a beautiful frame. The photographer may or may not capture the imagined shot, but as always, the proof is in the pudding.
Whether you are a collector, artist, typologist, photoblogger, gadget-lover, vintage electronics expert, Flickr fiend or friend of any-of-the-above, look no further for the perfect collectibles in 2-D brought to you by Tatsuro and Christine.
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