Andrew B. Myers: Solar Eclipse 2 (crowd watch), 2009 from the Solar Maximum series

Andrew B. Myers is a photographer and digital image maker that resides in Toronto. His colourful and detailed pictures are very carefully crafted, with an approach that always plays both analog as well as digital techniques to achieve a certain look and sensibility. He is currently completing his studies at Ryerson University and has been exhibited in the Toronto area. (About)

CineMasterpieces: Endless Summer, Bruce Brown, 1966 [click for hi-res]

About Aaron Romine:

In Aaron Romine’s recent paintings his characters have become stand-ins for something larger. Although obviously recognizable as specific people (they are all actually his friends), the work is contemplative and the scenes are a commentary on current culture. His painstaking paintings have become psychological allegories. He has looked past pure sexuality into how his subjects relate to each other, pushing their relationships to a level of intimacy. While influenced by such artists as Manet, Piazetta, Gaugin, Sargent, and Velazquez, his work has recently veered away from (strictly) historical references. (PragueBiennale.org).

First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.

This photograph is part of the exhibition Summer Place currently running at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery:

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition, Summer Place. This exhibition expresses the vitality of the summer season through the work of contemporary photographers who capture the leisure, athleticism, heat and psychology of the season through their images.

Highlights include new work by gallery artist Karine Laval, who transports the viewer to a place of pure sensual, existential experience, as swimmers splash and shimmer among the reflective waters of her exuberant yet nostalgic color pool images.Susannah Ray documents the surfing subculture of Rockaway Beach, NY, which makes up for the lack of allure and lifestyle of West Coast surfing with a surfeit of heart, dedication and soul. (more)

About Karine Laval:

Her photographs are notably spontaneous, and they are reminiscent of the photographs of masters such as Cartier Bresson and Eggleston, for she shares a similar use of color as an expressive tool. In this regard, her most characteristic series, such as White, on the snowy winter landscape of Norway, and Pool, on the relaxed and leisure environment of swimming pools in summertime, transport viewers into simple and naïve atmospheres meant to portray everyday life in XXI century society. (Bio)

Visit Karine Laval official website.

Previously on Skandalon.

Previously on Skandalon: Christoph Niemann

Life – Hosted by Google: Crowd enjoying a hot 4th of July at Coney Island beach. Photo by Andreas Feininger, Brooklyn, NY, US, July 04, 1946.

Massimo Vitali: Beach series [click for full scale]

“It had happened on 2 August 1994, right after Berlusconi was elected. I found myself in a state of shock. How could have happened? I then was on holiday on the beach of Marina Pietrasanta in Tuscany. All of sudden I made the decision to have a closer look at my compatriots, and I spent many a day observing people.” (source)

Another photorealist painting of a body in water? Nope, it’s a photograph by Aaron Farley. Got ya.

“Photography brought Aaron to Los Angeles in 2000, where he now lives, camera always close at hand, with his wife Michelle and daughter Lyla. It all started when he was 20, and had landed back at his parents house with a broken leg from skateboarding a week after dropping out of College. His mom had given him an old Konica 35mm for his birthday so she signed him up for a photo class at Spokane Falls Community College to get him out of the house.” (more)

About Paul Roberts:

“Paul Roberts (born in Tiverton, Devon, 1948) is the former lead singer and songwriter of Sniff ‘n’ the Tears. He is also known for his work as a photorealistic painter. He did a number of music albums under his own name. The music is very similar to the Sniff ‘n’ Tears music. The key albums were City without Walls(1985) and Kettle Drum Blues(1987). The album Slowdown (1992) is a mainly a compilation of the two albums stated before.

Roberts was brought up in Wales by his parents, both themselves artists. Having studied at Newport, Cardiff and Goldsmiths College of Art, he gained early recognition as a painter in the 1970s before his career was interrupted by world-wide success with the rockband Sniff ‘n’ the Tears in 1978. In 1988 he moved with his family to Somerset. Until 2000, his music commitments curtailed the time he had available to develop as a painter.” (wikipedia)

Visit his official website.

Compare with others photorealistic paintings of bodies in or on water (by Adam Stennett, Damian Loeb, Alyssa Monk and Erci Zener).

Previously on Skandalon : Paul Roberts.

“Damian Loeb (born May 9, 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American painter. Self-taught, he moved to New York City in the early 1990s. Discovered by Jeffrey Deitch, Loeb had his first solo in 1999. Since then, he has had international solo and group shows at galleries and museums, including the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, White Cube in London, the Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, and a 2006 retrospective of his work at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art[1] in Connecticut. His work is featured in several prestigious private collections, including Douglas Cramer, Michael Lynne, and the Rubell Family Collection, and has attracted the attention of a number of collectors. He is currently represented by the Acquavella Gallery.” (Wikipedia). Visit his unofficial website.

Mads Berg is a Danish illustrator born in 1975.

Eric Zener is “California artist creating figurative work with underwater themes.” Read an article about Zener’s work by Jessica Lyons: “Swimming strong: Eric Zener creates narrative paintings that float between introspection and escapism.” (2004)

I first came to know this artist via Pasa La Vida.