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Dr Marcus Bunyan is an Australian writer who has been compiling the mainly photography based art blog Art Blart since November 2008. The blog has a readership of about 4,000 people a day and over 1500 likes on Facebook. A selection of his writing for the blog can be found on the Writing page of his personal website.
He is an artist who works with all forms of photographic image making. His work investigates the spaces and environments that people inhabit. Over the last few years the work has come to focus on fighter aircraft and the people (usually men) who fly them: to be as one with the latest technology, the speed, the thrill of flying; the reason to fly such war machines, to fight for freedom and democracy, to bomb and kill; and the moral and ethical choices that human beings make, to undertake one action over another. He uses found images of fighter planes which are then digitally manipulated.
He has a Dr of Philosophy from RMIT University, Melbourne.
He is currently studying for a Master of Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne.
Visit his website at www.marcusbunyan.com
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Marcus Bunyan
Untitled from the series Vertical
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Marcus Bunyan
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No. 2
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Visit my website at www.marcusbunyan.com
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about usb. Regards
The photo by George Hunter titled “Dofasco and Stelco steel mills, Hamilton, Ontario” is actually a photo of US Steel Fairless Works located outside Philadelphia, PA. The mill was built in the early 50′s. Production began in December 1952 and the hot end of the mill was shut down in August 1990. A great photo nevertheless !!
Bonjour Marcus,
un petit mot ( en français, désolé je ne parle pas anglais!…) pour vous dire que j’apprécie votre site et grâce à votre newsletter je découvre des photographes jusque là inconnus de moi. Je suis moi même “fabricant d’images photographiques” et je trouve le réalisme photographique contemporain souvent répétitif et particulièrement misérabiliste… Votre site me permet de me ressourcer vers des figures incontournables de cette pratique artistique. Très amicalement, Vincent.
Bonjour Vincent
Je suis si heureuse que vous aimez le blog. Il faut beaucoup de travail pour le faire fonctionner tous les jours et un commentaire merveilleux comme la vôtre en vaut la peine. Tant que j’ai quelque chose d’intéressant à dire et des gens comme les photographies et d’écriture alors qu’il en vaut la peine. Le blog a maintenant un lectorat d’environ 4.000 personnes par jour qui est étonnant quand il a commencé avec seulement 11 personnes de le lire!
Tous les meilleurs
Marcus
I agree with your comments about “Trace” and nice to read that Duane Michals quote . His thoughts about photography are always pithy and his work is consistently interesting and sadly at the moment, under-appreciated. I saw him years ago at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington and he shook us all up by declaring what you imagine is more important than what you see and then adding, if you an imagine it you can photograph it. Commonplace thoughts today but radical when Michals first proclaimed them.
Thanks for the amazing pre=Raphaelite images at the Musee d’Orsay. Saves me a trip to Paris which I can’t afford.Still not sure that daguerreotype by Crawley isn’t a digital recreation. Or maybe just an inspired prophecy by Jphn Ruskin.I’ve never seen another daguerreotype like it. Interesting to know what “under the direction” means; is it usual for 19th century art critics to “direct” artists? Some very choice JMC’s too.
Hi Mark I had to translate it from the French “sous la direction de” but I think I have it right. Probably means that Rossetti directed the photographer in the placements of the camera, the positioning of the person etc … the daguerreotype is very interesting – I have never seen anything like it myself either! Marcus
thankx for your erudite comments Mark = much appreciated
Looking at your blog reminded me that I saw my first three Tina Modotti at American Dreams exhibition in Bendigo recently and what a knockout they were – so intense a vision.
Also the article on Miroslav Tichý was enlightening – I have always liked his work! I used to print on Azo paper many years ago bring back good memories.
Finally the image Edward Weston, Nude, 1939 reminded me of my own image ‘The Floater’ from 1996