Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini combines theater with the language of portrait photography to create curious and open narratives. For his series “Carte,” Tagliavini built wooden clothing and frames around his human subjects to devise life-sized playing cards. This technique creates tension between the two-dimensional quality of the playing cards and the life-like attributes of his distinctive characters, such as their protruding collarbones and rosy cheeks. Some of the eleven photographs further complicate the viewer’s sense of perspective with subtle gestures. In “La Matta Nera,” the stoic, smoky-eyed woman folds her black painted fingernails over the cutout frame, shaking the viewer’s belief in the image’s flatness. In this way, Tagliavini’s playing cards invite a sense of playful interaction. Their perspectival ambiguity and hints at mythological symbols serve as reminders to be more tactful and observant, especially when playing games of chance.
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Charles Gatewood, the prolific San Francisco based visionary and photographer who was called "the family photographer of America's erotic underground" died early this Thursday morning, April 28th. He had been in the ICU at SF General Hospital after suffering complications from a three-story fall that tragically ended his life at age 74.
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The word "wallflower" was first used in the early 1800s to refer to a woman without a partner at a dance, presumably sitting against the wall. Today, it represents any person who appears or feels shy and awkward. Southern California based artist 
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