Curtis Mann finds photographs from flickr, eBay, estate sales, etc…which were originally made in places such as Israel, Pakistan, Libya, and Iraq. He then applies varnish, which acts as a resist, to areas of enlarged C-prints, then uses household clorox bleach to bleach areas out. Additionally, prints are crumpled, and other elements (think Pop Art) are applied.

A new, fictional and more abstract understanding is sought in these snapshots, travel photographs and casual documentations.

The photograph is physically and contextually altered to produce a reading that oscillates between image and object, photography and painting, real and imagined. This new interpretation attempts to disrupt how we normally perceive, understand and connect with the fragmented world in which these photographs attempt to represent.

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I came across German photographer Peter Wildangers work this week, and liked it quite a bit, though some of what I assume are artist statements don’t pertain very well to the work.

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For her series Re-unifications, Susan Silas couples images of the German Olympic Stadium, in what was West Berlin with images of the Jewish Cemetary at Weißensee, once in East Berlin.

The Helmbrechts Walk is a particularly profound set of photographs.

Helmbrechts walk, is a visual representation of the act of walking through a landscape marked by the historical specificity of the forced march of 580 Jewish women prisoners at the end of the Second World War. This book is a document of that endeavor - walking for 22 days and 225 miles in Germany and the Czech Republic on the fifty third anniversary of those events. A historically accurate reconstruction of the march route was possible with the help of the German trial transcript of Alois Dörr and historical maps housed in the New York Public Library.

Her ongoing projects Yard Bird and Bleeding Bird are also interesting.

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The photographs by Dutch photographer Popel Coumou are paper constructions in built in two dimensions then lit to give the illusion of three dimensions.

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Magnum photographer Mark Power caught my eye.

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