Cool Photo Backdrop images

Some cool photo backdrop images:

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Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

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Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

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Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

Cool Photo Backdrop images

A few nice photo backdrop images I found:

BLOUIN ARTINFO | “Prison Has its Own Art Culture”: Curator Dave Adler on the Clocktower’s Poignant Inmate Photo Show | by Chloe Wyma

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

Links: BLOUIN ARTINFO | “Prison Has its Own Art Culture”: Curator Dave Adler on the Clocktower’s Poignant Inmate Photo Show | by Chloe Wyma

It is possibly one of the largest photography subcultures in America. It exists outside of the art market and outside of the labyrinthine patois of the art world. It’s beyond the sphere of influence of galleries and museums, delimited by a type kind of institution altogether. Prison portraiture, known in New York as the “click-click” program, is practiced in nearly every U.S. penitentiary. Inmates pose in front of cheerful hand-painted backdrops depicting log cabins, lighthouses, city skylines, and beaches — signifiers of un-incarcerated, middle-class life. The photographs are sent to friends and family on the outside.

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Photos: Dave Adler Archive.

BLOUIN ARTINFO | “Prison Has its Own Art Culture”: Curator Dave Adler on the Clocktower’s Poignant Inmate Photo Show | by Chloe Wyma

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

Links: BLOUIN ARTINFO | “Prison Has its Own Art Culture”: Curator Dave Adler on the Clocktower’s Poignant Inmate Photo Show | by Chloe Wyma

It is possibly one of the largest photography subcultures in America. It exists outside of the art market and outside of the labyrinthine patois of the art world. It’s beyond the sphere of influence of galleries and museums, delimited by a type kind of institution altogether. Prison portraiture, known in New York as the “click-click” program, is practiced in nearly every U.S. penitentiary. Inmates pose in front of cheerful hand-painted backdrops depicting log cabins, lighthouses, city skylines, and beaches — signifiers of un-incarcerated, middle-class life. The photographs are sent to friends and family on the outside.

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Photos: Dave Adler Archive.

Dave Adler | Albums | The New Insiders | 3rd Athens Biennale, Monodrome

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen ‘art system’ subculture in the United States.

LINKS: Dave Adler | Albums | 3rd Athens Biennale | Monodrome | Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio.

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Photos: Dave Adler Archive.

White Muslin Backdrops

A few nice photo backdrop images I found:

White Muslin Backdrops

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NEWSWORKS | Documentary filmmaker brings prison portraiture to Eastern State Penitentiary | by Peter Crimmins

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

LINKS: NEWSWORKS | Documentary filmmaker brings prison portraiture to Eastern State Penitentiary | by Peter Crimmons

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The paintings can be a little garish: not-quite trompe l'oeil waterfalls, mountains, and seascapes. An abstracted floral field. A roughly brushed urban scene. The people posing in front of them are smiling, mostly. One subject is wearing blue scrubs with tell-tale, prison-issue markings down the leg.

These images are from "Visions of the Free World," an installation of projected prisoner photographs at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.

"Virtually every prison does this," said David Adler, a New York-based documentary filmmaker who was surprised to discover the prevalence of hand-painted backdrops inside most prisons where inmates would have their photos taken, to send out to family and friends. (continued)

"Visions of the Free World" is on display through November 30, 2013.

Photo: Dave Adler Archive.

Nice Photo Backdrop photos

Check out these photo backdrop images:

The Atlantic | For Prisoners, an Escape as Art | by Marina Galperina

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

LINKS: The Atlantic | For Prisoners, an Escape as Art | by Marina Galperina

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A Manhattan gallery exhibit highlights universally humanizing psychology: the trend in photos of inmates, taken by inmates, in front-wall murals of the outside world (painted by inmates).

Artist, critic, and documentary-maker David Adler had been teaching in prison when he discovered the "click click" phenomenon: photos of prisoners taken by prisoners in front-wall murals painted by prisoners, dreaming of life on the outside. It seems that this is a regular feature of prisons in the U.S., with murals varying regionally. The photographs, taken for family and pen pals, are particularly posed, soft, un-menacing, with the festive, contrived feel of a holiday photo booth at the mall, but also DIY and genuine in their meagerness.

Adler, who focuses on the intersection of art and economics, has been collecting these photographs for five years. He found that "at a time when people are questioning work coming out of the market-driven art world, particularly after the financial crisis, prison photographs are examples of art produced in a different institutional framework altogether. Within this art system, money plays almost no role. Yet the photographs are imbued with a value often lacking in expensive portraits from the free world." The Age of Innocence is on view now through August 31, 2012 at the Clocktower Gallery.

Photos: Dave Adler Archive.

The Atlantic | For Prisoners, an Escape as Art | by Marina Galperina

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

LINKS: The Atlantic | For Prisoners, an Escape as Art | by Marina Galperina

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A Manhattan gallery exhibit highlights universally humanizing psychology: the trend in photos of inmates, taken by inmates, in front-wall murals of the outside world (painted by inmates).

Artist, critic, and documentary-maker David Adler had been teaching in prison when he discovered the "click click" phenomenon: photos of prisoners taken by prisoners in front-wall murals painted by prisoners, dreaming of life on the outside. It seems that this is a regular feature of prisons in the U.S., with murals varying regionally. The photographs, taken for family and pen pals, are particularly posed, soft, un-menacing, with the festive, contrived feel of a holiday photo booth at the mall, but also DIY and genuine in their meagerness.

Adler, who focuses on the intersection of art and economics, has been collecting these photographs for five years. He found that "at a time when people are questioning work coming out of the market-driven art world, particularly after the financial crisis, prison photographs are examples of art produced in a different institutional framework altogether. Within this art system, money plays almost no role. Yet the photographs are imbued with a value often lacking in expensive portraits from the free world." The Age of Innocence is on view now through August 31, 2012 at the Clocktower Gallery.

Photos: Dave Adler Archive.

Nice Photo Backdrop photos

A few nice photo backdrop images I found:

LOST Auction - cast photo last supper backdrop

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Cool Photo Backdrop images

Some cool photo backdrop images:

FMA_RONSOMBILONGALLERY (46)

Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

Nice Photo Backdrop photos

A few nice photo backdrop images I found:

FMA_RONSOMBILONGALLERY (60)

Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

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Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

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Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

FLAVORWIRE | ‘The Age of Innocence’: Fascinating Photos of Prisoners by Prisoners | by Marina Galperina.

A few nice photo backdrop images I found:

FLAVORWIRE | ‘The Age of Innocence’: Fascinating Photos of Prisoners by Prisoners | by Marina Galperina.

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

Links: FLAVORWIRE | ‘The Age of Innocence’: Fascinating Photos of Prisoners by Prisoners | by Marina Galperina

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Artist, critic, and documentary maker David Adler had been teaching in prison when he discovered the “click click” phenomenon: photos of prisoners taken by prisoners in front-wall murals painted by prisoners, dreaming of life on the outside. It seems that this is a regular feature of prisons in the US, with murals varying regionally. The photographs, taken for family and pen pals, are particularly posed, soft, un-menacing, with the festive, contrived feel of a holiday photo booth at the mall, but also DIY and genuine in their meagerness.

Adler, who focuses on the intersection of art and economics, has been collecting these photographs for five years. He finds that “at a time when people are questioning work coming out of the market-driven art world, particularly after the financial crisis, prison photographs are examples of art produced in a different institutional framework altogether. Within this art system, money plays almost no role yet the photographs are imbued with a value often lacking in expensive portraits from the free world.” The Age of Innocence is on view now through August 31, 2012 at the Clocktower Gallery.

Photos: Dave Adler Archive.

FLAVORWIRE | ‘The Age of Innocence’: Fascinating Photos of Prisoners by Prisoners | by Marina Galperina.

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

Links: FLAVORWIRE | ‘The Age of Innocence’: Fascinating Photos of Prisoners by Prisoners | by Marina Galperina

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Artist, critic, and documentary maker David Adler had been teaching in prison when he discovered the “click click” phenomenon: photos of prisoners taken by prisoners in front-wall murals painted by prisoners, dreaming of life on the outside. It seems that this is a regular feature of prisons in the US, with murals varying regionally. The photographs, taken for family and pen pals, are particularly posed, soft, un-menacing, with the festive, contrived feel of a holiday photo booth at the mall, but also DIY and genuine in their meagerness.

Adler, who focuses on the intersection of art and economics, has been collecting these photographs for five years. He finds that “at a time when people are questioning work coming out of the market-driven art world, particularly after the financial crisis, prison photographs are examples of art produced in a different institutional framework altogether. Within this art system, money plays almost no role yet the photographs are imbued with a value often lacking in expensive portraits from the free world.” The Age of Innocence is on view now through August 31, 2012 at the Clocktower Gallery.

Photos: Dave Adler Archive.

Nice Photo Backdrop photos

Some cool photo backdrop images:

NEWSWORKS | Documentary filmmaker brings prison portraiture to Eastern State Penitentiary | by Peter Crimmins

Image by The New Insiders | Dave Adler
Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

LINKS: NEWSWORKS | Documentary filmmaker brings prison portraiture to Eastern State Penitentiary | by Peter Crimmons

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The paintings can be a little garish: not-quite trompe l'oeil waterfalls, mountains, and seascapes. An abstracted floral field. A roughly brushed urban scene. The people posing in front of them are smiling, mostly. One subject is wearing blue scrubs with tell-tale, prison-issue markings down the leg.

These images are from "Visions of the Free World," an installation of projected prisoner photographs at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.

"Virtually every prison does this," said David Adler, a New York-based documentary filmmaker who was surprised to discover the prevalence of hand-painted backdrops inside most prisons where inmates would have their photos taken, to send out to family and friends. (continued)

"Visions of the Free World" is on display through November 30, 2013.

Photo: Dave Adler Archive.

Nice Photo Backdrop photos

Check out these photo backdrop images:

FMA_RONSOMBILONGALLERY (362)

Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

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Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
FMA Vancouver
photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery

FMA 2008 promo trailer
www.FMAvancouver.com/2008promo
www.FMAvancouver.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

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This Charity Benefitting Concert Gala is the premier red carpet event of Western Canada. Not just a fashion show, not just a concert, FMA Vancouver is a fusion of catwalk and concert set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful and trend setting cities.

Canadian comedian and actress Ellie Harvie and ET Canada’s Erin Cebula are hosting this year’s FMA Vancouver. The media duo will present 'Sky 360', the airy incarnation of fashion runway, live music and art performance held on September 27, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Sky 360 re-lives the old world glamour of travel as each segment celebrates the excitement of jet-setting and far away destinations along with an eco-green theme.

The whole venue at The Centre will be transformed into an exhilarating airport scene with staff in ’60s and ’70s-inspired airline uniforms designed by Jolie Chan of Jolie Couture.

Terminal 1 – Trans Canada - an exclusively Canadian roster of designers, musicians and artists.

Terminal 2 – Mile High - a provocative selection of lingerie and bathing suits.

Terminal 3 – Eco Green - featuring designers who are taking eco-couture to the next level.

Terminal 4 – Elite Star - first class finale of high profile designers.

International designers include Betsey Johnson, Wolford and Calvin Klein, while national stars join their ranks such as TV’s 'Making it Big' winner Jason Matlo, Bikini-designer extraordinaire, Anna Kosturova, Canada’s Project Runway designer judge Shawn Hewson's 'Bustle', winner Evan Biddell, and runner-up Carlie Wong. Further locally-based stars include Nicole Bridger, Elroy Apparel, Evan & Dean, Odd Molly, Jacqueline Conoir and Mellinda Mae Harlingten. Also featuring top graduates from Kwantlen University College and Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design.

This year’s beneficiary is the Canadian Make Poverty History as part of Bono and Bob Geldof's international campaign to eradicate global poverty, and The WordLoveWorldLove Project that connects Canadian children with children in developing countries who have been impacted by crisis.

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BLOUIN ARTINFO | “Prison Has its Own Art Culture”: Curator Dave Adler on the Clocktower’s Poignant Inmate Photo Show | by Chloe Wyma

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Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

Links: BLOUIN ARTINFO | “Prison Has its Own Art Culture”: Curator Dave Adler on the Clocktower’s Poignant Inmate Photo Show | by Chloe Wyma

It is possibly one of the largest photography subcultures in America. It exists outside of the art market and outside of the labyrinthine patois of the art world. It’s beyond the sphere of influence of galleries and museums, delimited by a type kind of institution altogether. Prison portraiture, known in New York as the “click-click” program, is practiced in nearly every U.S. penitentiary. Inmates pose in front of cheerful hand-painted backdrops depicting log cabins, lighthouses, city skylines, and beaches — signifiers of un-incarcerated, middle-class life. The photographs are sent to friends and family on the outside.

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The Huffington Post | The Clocktower Gallery Presents ‘Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside’ | by Anthony Papa

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Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

Links: The Huffington Post | The Clocktower Gallery Presents ‘Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside’ | by Anthony Papa

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Financial Times | Insider art by Dave Adler

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Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States

Links: Financial Times | Insider art by Dave Adler | In prisons across the US, inmates are creating and posing in front of artworks that depict the ‘free world’

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Photograph Magazine | Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside, The Clocktower Gallery, New York | by Carlo McCormick

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Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

Links: Photograph Magazine | Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside, The Clocktower Gallery, New York | by Carlo McCormick

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Dave Adler | aperture Magazine | aperture foundation | PRISON “ESCAPIST PHOTOGRAPHS”

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Dave Adler | aperture Magazine | aperture foundation | PRISON “ESCAPIST PHOTOGRAPHS”

All over the United States, prison inmates are making photographic portraits of other inmates, posed against painted backdrops—also made by inmates—featuring fantasy scenes of life outside the prison walls. The practice is thus a collaboration by, for, and about prisoners. While some states and wardens discourage such photographs (perhaps to be tougher on the inmates), others encourage them as a peaceful means of self-expression. Though these photographs are scarcely known in what the prisoners call the “free world,” the system is national in scope. There are more than two million people incarcerated in the United States, and virtually every major penitentiary—both state and federal—has its own painted backdrop created by inmates for this use.

The backdrops typically consist of a large painting on canvas, although some are painted directly on cinderblock walls (a few of these are particularly delicate, adding to the sense of tension in the images). Natural themes are common—beaches, waterfalls, rainbows—as are city skylines. There are regional touches: Western motifs, Mexican murals, even elements of Colonial New England. Many are abstract: wardens review every backdrop for signs of gang symbols, and abstract paintings are seen as more likely to be “clean.”

The inmates have a variety of objectives with these images: to entertain; to pretend to be somewhere else; to escape their incarceration, at least visually. The portraits are often sent to friends and relatives—in an environment without email access, this is a favored mode of making contact with the outside world. But while the idea may be to present a pretty or lighthearted picture, in reality the photographs often convey exactly the opposite sense. The portraits and backdrops defy the expectations of a non-prison audience, and there is a complete lack of sensationalism in the images: these are not the angry, dangerous hoods we know from rap music and the entertainment industry. Here the inmates are smiling self-consciously, or nearly affectless.

I refer to this photography subculture as “The Age of Innocence.” The portraits and backdrops are visually innocent, and the letters I receive from prisoners often (though not always) contain protestations of innocence, about long-forgotten and poorly investigated crimes. I have been documenting this work for several years now, together with an inmates’-rights activist. What we have discovered is that prisoners, despite the direness of their situation, have been able to create a kind of art system for themselves, with its own processes and institutions. And for them, everyone of these photographs is charged with meanings that would be impossible in portraits from the “free world.”

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UPCOMING EXHIBITION | Press Release | Dave Adler: Visions of the Free World at Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary

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Photographs of prisoners by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created painted photography backdrops. The largest unseen 'art system' subculture in the United States.

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Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site welcomes new artist installation Visions of the Free World by David Adler to its growing art program and continues to feature many of its visitors’ favorite installations from previous years. In 2013 there will be eight artist installations on view during all public hours, including the new installation by Adler. Artists are chosen for their ability to address Eastern State’s primary themes—including issues of crime and justice, architectural history, and the site’s fascinating past—with a memorable, thought-provoking approach.

Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers.

Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of convicts.

Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America’s most notorious criminals, including bank robber “Slick Willie” Sutton and Al Capone.

ESP has also been the set to many films. Eastern State’s arched cellblocks and central rotunda are transformed into a mental institution in the movie 12 Monkeys, with Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis.

"Visions of the Free World" is on display through November 30, 2013.

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