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February 6th, 2012 — 7:46pm
Sunset on Venice beach, Sunday February 5th.
Photo © Paris, LA
PROTECT FROM LIGHT
April 28th, 2011 — 12:21pm
Josh McNey at Casa de Costa, NYC
Opening Reception on April 29th, 6-10 PM
Speaking about the exhibition McNey said, “Being afraid of my sexuality made me afraid to stare. I didn’t want to be ‘caught’ looking at guys. I think this teenage strategy of visual chastity made it all the more urgent that I find a way to legitimize staring. Photography became for me both an apparatus and a metaphor for coming out as a gay man. Showing the work is one more step in that direction.”
Photo Josh McNey.
NEW YORK, APRIL 2011 —
Casa de Costa is pleased to announce Protect from Light, a solo photography exhibition by artist Josh McNey. The show at Casa de Costa marks the debut of the firm’s new salon and studio at 11 Stone Street in historic Lower Manhattan.
Protect from Light features nearly thirty unpublished photographs, including landscapes, still life and portraits primarily from McNey’s work with college wrestlers, professional bull riders and other athletes. Showcasing just some selections from a decade-long practice, Protect from Light provides the first opportunity to see a substantial collection of finished work by the artist. McNey’s landscape and still life work comprises almost half of this exhibition and reminds viewers of the serene beauty of the everyday. The images also evoke questions about the relationship between nature and engineering, the gendering of dominance and submission, and the transience of our daily lives.
Josh McNey grew up in a suburban enclave of Los Angeles, where he developed an early interest in photography; his subjects included his three brothers, the Southern California landscape and small still life arrangements. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the US Marines and served in an elite Force Reconnaissance unit for more than seven years. During that time he expanded his practice, shooting editorial portraits and increasingly, men. His personal portrait work has evolved into a hybrid of diary and staging, creating what writer Alistair McCartney described as, “the ideal universe inhabited by the ideal boy.” McNey’s male subjects evoke an unmistakable sense of strength and classical beauty tempered by vulnerability.
Josh McNey has lived in various places in the US and now resides in New York City. His portrait work has appeared in Tokion, Out, XLR8R, K48, Paris/LA and other select magazines and has been exhibited in group shows in the US and Europe.
Josh McNey – Protect from Light
April 29 – June 9
Opening Reception on April 29th, 6-10 PM at 11 Stone Street, 6th Floor
Photo Josh McNey.
LAST YEAR IN TOKYO
February 8th, 2011 — 4:38pm
VIEW ON THE MOUNT FUJI FROM FROM THE 25TH FLOOR OF TOKYU STAY HOTEL.
VIEW ON THE PRADA STORE FROM THE 25TH FLOOR OF TOKYU STAY HOTEL.
PALM TREES.
MORE PALM TREES.
AIRSHIP IN A CLEAR BLUE SKY
QUIET STREET BEHIND BUSY SHIBUYA.
GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON’S AWESOME BIKE
KEIICHI NITTA‘S CAR CUSTOMIZED BY MARK GONZALES.
OSCAR TUAZON AND GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON SHOW AT THE RAT HOLE GALLERY.
NIGHTFALL.
RED LANTERNS.
Photography by dp for ©PARIS, LA taken in Tokyo last December 2010.
(except the O. Tuazon & G E Einarsson show’ picture taken by the Rat Hole Gallery)
OPEN TO GIVE, OPEN TO RECEIVE
January 8th, 2011 — 10:36am
Entering a new year, our friend and contributor Martin Krutski, who is currently based in India, shares a photographic portrait of the Capitol Complex located in Chandigarh, the dream city of India’s first Prime Minister, Sh. Jawahar Lal Nehru.
“Chandigarh was planned by the famous French architect Le Corbusier. Picturesquely located at the foothills of Shivaliks, it is known as one of the best experiments in urban planning and modern architecture in the twentieth century in India.
Chandigarh derives its name from the temple of “Chandi Mandir” located in the vicinity of the site selected for the city. The deity ‘Chandi’, the goddess of power and a fort of ‘garh’ laying beyond the temple gave the city its name “Chandigarh-The City Beautiful”.
Le Corbusier conceived the master plan of Chandigarh as analogous to human body, with a clearly defined head (the Capitol Complex, Sector 1), heart (the City Centre Sector-17), lungs ( the leisure valley, innumerable open spaces and sector greens), the intellect (the cultural and educational institutions), the circulatory system (the network of roads, the 7Vs) and the viscera (the Industrial Area). The concept of the city is based on four major functions: living, working, care of the body and spirit and circulation.
The Capital complex comprises three architectural masterpieces: the “Secretariat”, the “High Court” and the “Legislative Assembly”, separated by large piazzas. In the heart of the Capital Complex stands the giant metallic sculpture of The Open Hand, the official emblem of Chandigarh, signifying the city’s credo of “open to give, open to receive”. ” (via the official website of the Chandigarh Administration)
Photography Martin Krutzki for ©PARIS, LA