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Erica Shires

Erica Shires is an American photographer who received her BFA at Pratt Institute. She's been a professional photographer for three years. The image of hers that caught my eye looks to be a digital film still, an aesthetic I've taken a particular interest in, and I recently looked up more of her work. I haven't looked at many new artists, especially not photographers, because there is such a vast sea of commercial photography I am uninterested in sifting through. However, I was very drawn to many of the photographs on her site and occasionally saw similarities in her subject matter and my own.

http://www.ericashires.com (Website)

http://www.commarts.com/fresh/erica-shires.html (Interview)

http://www.heartgallerynyc.org/core/Photographers/ (Gallery)

Robert Heinecken

Robert Heinecken (1931 - 2006) was an American artist whose work primarily dealt with appropriating contemporary media imagery and often juxtaposing it with photography. Though often put into the realm of photography, he never even used a camera until the late 70s and even then it was to take Polaroid images of magazines. His work was very controversial, especially within the feminist movement. He was also an honored professor and his work has been exhibited worldwide.

http://heinecken.org/ (Website)

http://www.fnewsmagazine.com/2007-feb/humorous-warfare-&-hypocritical-misogyny.php (Review)

http://rhoffmangallery.com.19.m6.net/exhibition.asp?exid=384 (Gallery)

Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger is an American underground film-maker, born in 1927. He began making films at age nine, but never had any formal training. The only schooling he had, apparently, was attending a dance school with Shirley Temple. He was close friends with Alfred Kinsey, helped him build his film archive and appeared in some of his research films.

Anger had an obsession with the occult which is very apparent in his films. Scorpio Rising (1963) is the film that initially drew me to Anger. I was floored; it included the fusion of three things I am endlessly interested in - religion, sexuality, and 50s/60s pop music. For a film about a Nazi bike gang, homoeroticism, drug use and Satanic rituals, it was incredibly subversive for its time.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4704748884284449320 (Scorpio Rising)

http://www.ratso.net/anger.html (Interview)

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/anger.html (Website)

There is no gallery representing Anger, but surprisingly, most of his films can be found on Google video and YouTube.