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some brash colours & vibrant ‘youth’ imagery from photographer bodo vitus i particularly like the BMX/skate series with coloured skies, looks easy to do, but not easy to do well and this works for me…

the photomontage artist activist ‘john heartfield’ (who was originally called helmut herzfeld) is notoriously difficult to find online, he remains famous for his striking anti-nazi collages made during the rise of fascism in germany in the 30’s and his connection to the dada movement

a good place to start is wikipedia and these are three , of the more interesting links i could find about him…

the fabulous ‘marian bantjes’ has posted a sneak preview of her upcoming book, not due for release till october this year but already getting some hype from me…

…every single illustration is new, created for the book, and the content is not about my work, but instead combines graphic art with the written word, and lends my own contemplative but frequently amused voice to my observations of the world….

and as usual, this worked… thanks to mister ‘f’

…the Dutch proverb ?a Jan Steen household? originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, helped inspire this body of work. I am the oldest of nine children and now the mother of three. As Steen?s personal narratives of family life depicted nearly 400 yrs. ago, the conflation of art and life is an area I have explored in photographing the everyday life of my family and the lives of my sisters and their families at home. These images are both fictional and auto-biographical, and reflect not only our lives today and as children growing up in a large family, but also move beyond the documentary to explore the fantastic elements of our everyday lives, both imagined and real…

some amusing family scenes from american photographer julie blackmon (many thanks to ‘fem’ for the tip x)