In Ted Sabarese new photo series Evolution, he explores the connection between us and our ancient ancestors, the fish…

With all the recent, fiery controversy between evolution, creationism, intelligent design, science, religion, the political left, right, etc., I thought it might be provocative to throw my visual two-cents into the ring. The images beg the question, is it really so difficult to believe we came out from the sea millions and millions of years ago?

See the rest of the gallery after the fold.

ADR Studios brings us these hyper-realistic renderings of the way designer Antonio DeRosa imagines that Apple could further foray into the field of digital photography. The concept sports a modular design, in which the iPhone (based on the anticipated specs of the iPhone 5) docks in the rear of the camera unit and controls the camera.

Plenty more looks after the jump.

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Dale May will be opening a new exhibit at the Samuel Owen Gallery. Entitled “Lego Wars” it will run from December 15th – January 19th.

See more images after the jump.

As of this past Tuesday, a collection of 120 photographs of New York’s Lower East Side taken by Sol LeWitt in 1979 has been installed on the side of the Mondrian SoHo. It is a permanent installation, so you can take a stroll there anytime. The hotel partnered with the Paula Cooper Gallery on the project.

From the press release:

Sol LeWitt made photographs throughout his career, beginning in the 1960s
with serial works of images inspired by Edwaerd Muybridge.  Photography was
a means by which LeWitt incorporated narrative into his art, in a seeming
contradiction to the objective, conceptual rigor that define Lewitt’s wall
drawings and structures from the same period.  Beginning in the mid-1970s,
he published a series of books of photographic essays such as Brick Walls
(1975), Photo Grids (1977), and On the Walls of the Lower East Side, which
culminated in Autobiography (1980). The publications reproduce images that
are absent of people, sequenced in related groupings and arranged into grids
of uniformly sized reproductions that function like modular units with no
overt hierarchy.

On the Walls of the Lower East Side consists of 666 photographs in total,
depicting the decayed landscape of the neighborhood in lower Manhattan where
LeWitt then had his home and studio. (The door of his loft at 117 Hester
Street is included.) Graffiti covered walls were abundant in the area, and
LeWitt shoots mostly images of political scrawls, torn posters and
splattered paint in a straight-forward, almost deadpan, style that is in
essence social documentary.

Sol Lewitt believed that walls were public and large and that books were
small and private; that they each provide the same information through
extremely different formats. Sol Lewitt wrote, “When one sees a wall, it is
the impact of the whole that is understood at once-emotionally more than
intellectually. It is only by reading the wall that the viewer understands
it fully.” The installation of LeWitt¹s On the Walls of the Lower East Side
at Mondrian SoHo provides an opportunity for this work to be seen in the
context of the community that inspired it.

More images after the fold.

I going to have to agree with a post over at Animal:

While the NYPD was roughing up art-handlers and pro-union protestors outside, Christie’s sold the world’s most expensive photograph. Ta da: Rhein II (1999) by Andreas Gursky, one of an edition of six, $4,338,500. Not his best work. A boring, pricey autograph, if you will.

Wow. It’s amazing what an autograph can do.

If you are aware of Hedi Slimane’s work you will be excited (if you are in Los Angeles) to go visit the exhibit at MOCA Pacific Design Center. It opened November 12th and will run through January 22nd, 2012.

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Hedi Slimaneʼs California Song, the first West Coast solo museum exhibition of the photographerʼs work, on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center from November 12, 2011, through January 22, 2012. California Song spans the photographerʼs “California period” and traces his explorations of cycles of urban youth culture and artistic communities, through installations of photographic essays, exhibitions, and publications.

Slimane has achieved global recognition over the past decade for his discovery and presentation of emerging musicians and artists. His publications on London youth are among the first books published about the early days of the new British punk-rock movement at the beginning of this decade, capturing the birth of the first generation of Internet users, and redefining the concept of “fans” as an indie youth imagery that has developed globally through emerging social networks. Slimaneʼs widely followed photographic “diary,” created in 2006, established and popularized an entirely new genre—the online photo diary. via: MOCA PDC.

Nick Veasey has created some striking images for The Macallan.

Shooting with an X-ray machine rather than with a traditional camera, British photographer Nick Veasey produces surprising, visually enchanting work that begs the observer to think about what’s under the surface. With more than twenty years of experimental experience, the TED speaker’s fascinating body of work spans subjects from insects and flowers to cars and even airplanes, each broken down to expose its raw inner components. Veasey’s next project finds him putting his graphic images on whisky bottles as part of a collaboration with The Macallan.

Via Cool Hunting. More images after the jump.

If you are not already in the know, French photographer Sacha Goldberg has an ongoing series about superhero grandparents. Super Mamika was created to cheer up Goldberg’s 91 year old Grandmother. After the first series, he was then inspired created Mister Papika, the jovial suitor of Mamika. Since then Mamika has dumped Mister Papika for Dark Papouka, for better or worse… If the evolution of the story is confusing, no need to worry, the images are fun all on their own. The entire photo story of Dark Papouka befriending Darth Vader is after the jump.

Treats! magazine recently published a video documenting some behind the scenes action from a Ben Watts shoot. The title of the video is “Breaking Away.” The shoot takes a page from INSA’s playbook with the theme of girls and bikes. Check out the video after the jump.

Anton Tang Is the creator of these this fantastic miniature series entitled “Cardboard People.” The series consists of scores of meticulously sculpted, posted and photographed mini-scale cardboard people. View more after the jump.