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Nikola Tamindzic, Samantha Keely Smith, 2013 Last week I had the...

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:44:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Samantha Keely Smith, 2013

Last week I had the pleasure of shooting Samantha Keely Smith for a feature about her work in the upcoming issue of Installation magazine. Tumblr seems to have fallen head over heels in love with this amazing artist & painter over the past few months, as some 16,000 notes for this post testify. Meet the person behind these incredible paintings: Samantha Keely Smith.

Styling Julia Andryeyeva, makeup Aya Kudo, hair Junya Nakashima.

More of my work at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Karin Dreijer Andersson, The Knife, 2009 A...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:16:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Karin Dreijer Andersson, The Knife, 2009

A portrait of The Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson I did for The New Yorker in 2009.

The Knife’s first album proper in 7 years, Shaking the Habitual, is out today, and is fucking amazing.

More of my work at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Michael Gira, 2013 (print) Framed print...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:00:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Michael Gira, 2013 (print)

Framed print of a portrait I made of Michael Gira of Swans for The New Yorker, on the last day of February.

More of my work at Home of the Vain.

Clayton Cubitt: The future of photography is now

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:05:00 -0400

Imagine an always-on 360 degree HD wearable video camera. With a constant feed of all that she might see, the photographer is freed from instant reaction to the Decisive Moment, and then only faced with the Decisive Area to be in, and perhaps the Decisive Angle. Evolve this further into a networked grid of such cameras, and the photographer is freed from those decisions as well, and is then merely a curator of reality after the fact. Any ”live” input would consist of a “flag” button the photographer presses when she thinks a moment stands out, much like is already used in recording high-speed footage. The grid might not even be traditionally photographic, rather more like a 3D LIDAR array. A primitive test of this has already been used artistically in Radiohead’s 2008 video for “House of Cards.”

None of this is science fiction. Artists are already commandeering Google Street View to hijack omniscient eyes for their own expression. Nick Knight has been using 3D scanners for fashion work for over a decade. In less time than it took me to originally learn and master film and darkroom technique at the beginning of my career I’ve seen digital tools transition from massively expensive and low-resolution to ubiquitously cheap and high-resolution.

It’s taken over 165 years for photography to truly fulfill its promise to be the ultimate democratic art. I’m thrilled to be alive to see it.

— Clayton Cubitt

Nikola Tamindzic, Yan 1/93, 2013 This afternoon, Lower East...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:30:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Yan 1/93, 2013

This afternoon, Lower East Side.

More of my work at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #224 (Rivington), 2009 (top);...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:59:00 -0500

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #224 (Rivington), 2009 / www.homeofthevain.com

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #239 (Echo Park), 2009 / www.homeofthevain.com

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #224 (Rivington), 2009 (top); Untitled #239 (Echo Park), 2009 (bottom)

A diptych of my past work curated by Sophie Yerly of We Find Wildness.

More of my work at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, MGG2, 2009 (top); Untitled #50,...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:58:00 -0500

Nikola Tamindzic, MGG2, 2009 / www.homeofthevain.com

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #50, 2007 / www.homeofthevain.com

Nikola Tamindzic, MGG2, 2009 (top); Untitled #50, 2007 (bottom)

A diptych of my past work curated by Sophie Yerly of We Find Wildness.

More of my work at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Blindness, 2009 (top); Untitled #238,...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0500

Nikola Tamindzic, Blindness, 2009 / www.homeofthevain.com

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #238, 2009 / www.homeofthevain.com

Nikola Tamindzic, Blindness, 2009 (top); Untitled #238, 2010 (bottom)

A diptych of my past work curated by Sophie Yerly of We Find Wildness.

More of my work at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Halloween, Hunting Courtney Love, 2006 More at...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:10:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Halloween, Hunting Courtney Love, 2006

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Nikola Tamindzic, Halloween (The Agony of Choice), 2008 More at...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:09:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Halloween (The Agony of Choice), 2008

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Nikola Tamindzic, Ashley, 2010 (#7544) From my Thanatophobia...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:36:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Ashley, 2010 (#7544)

From my Thanatophobia series.

In hi-res. Ashley, previously. More at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Ashley, 2010 (#7535) From my Thanatophobia...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:03:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Ashley, 2010 (#7535)

From my Thanatophobia series.

In hi-res. Ashley, previously. More at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Ashley, 2010 (#7496) From my Thanatophobia...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:23:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Ashley, 2010 (#7496)

From my Thanatophobia series. Makeup by Asie Mohtarez.

In hi-res. More at Home of the Vain.

When do you think you'll come for a visit?

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:59:00 -0400

Alright, New Zealanders, you heard the lady. Which one of you is going to hire me and provide me with the perfect excuse to come visit that beautiful country of yours?

Ask me anything.

God damn you've got some fucking good art. Keep it up man, really incredible stuff here

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:59:00 -0400

Thanks, brother!

Ask me anything.

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #258 (Paige) From my Scapes series....

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:38:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #258 (Paige)

From my Scapes series. An outtake from “Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas: retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s famous steps, 40 years later” by Zach Baron.

In hi-res. More at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #257 (Fear and Loathing) From my...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:36:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #257 (Fear and Loathing)

From my Scapes series. Originally published in “Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas: retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s famous steps, 40 years later” by Zach Baron.

In hi-res. More at Home of the Vain.

Don't Be an Ass: Credit the Artist

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:32:00 -0400

If you’re posting someone else’s work, credit them. Don’t deliberately remove the name of the artist. That’s just wrong. If your reasoning is that it’s your own personal scrapbook, then keep it personal. If it’s public, the least you can do is credit the artist and link back to their site, or at least their Wikipedia entry.

When I see something I like not credited, I try to track down the source — if for no other reason than to find more art by the same person. Consider this a small payback to the artist whose art you liked enough to post on your Tumblr. Use Google Reverse Image Search or TinEye to track down original visual art — they’re both easy to use, and takes no more than 10 seconds to do a search.

— Nikola Tamindzic, photographer

Yes x1000, and I would add another reason, beyond it just being the moral (and legal) thing to do for the artist you admire: do it for future knowledge. Do it for future curious creative people like yourself. Tools like TinEye would be so much more effective if everyone who published an image would post the credits with it, so that it could be properly indexed. Not some vague emotional poem-line about how the image makes you feel, the actual artist’s name and their title for the piece. In the art (and adult) world, provenance is key, so do your part and preserve the chain of custody, the praise for the things you love, or even the shame for the things you hate.

This counts for everyone, but triply so if you’re a young artist/designer yourself.

— Clayton Cubitt, photographer

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #256 (Paige) From my Scapes series....

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:23:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Untitled #256 (Paige)

From my Scapes series. Originally published in “Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas: retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s famous steps, 40 years later” by Zach Baron.

In hi-res. More at Home of the Vain.

Nikola Tamindzic, Reconnoître “My dear friend Nikola...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:02:00 -0400

Nikola Tamindzic, Reconnoître

“My dear friend Nikola Tamindzic and I have shared many creative interests over the years and the video-as-portrait is one of them. This one that he made, called ‘Reconnoître’ (translation: to explore something; reconnaissance; obtaining information visually), is my favorite of his thus far, and you need to know it. Warning — there is nudity.”

“What I love about much of Nikola’s body of personal work is his apparent love of female beauty in its natural, raw, and imperfect state. He has a way of seeing past the ‘modelesque’ perfections most male photographers seek and holds static to his vision of feminism as an honest source of truth — rather than a source of deceit within objectification. Something I hold to as well.”

— Christine Taylor, photographer

Christine Taylor’s work. My previous long portraits.