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Monday, August 22, 2011

Lenscratch VISUAL PRANK AND PUNS Exhibition 2011

I think we all need to laugh, to see the world with humor, and appreciate those split second juxtapositions that are everywhere if you look hard enough. A couple of years ago, JPG Magazine had a call for images of Pranks. It got me thinking about making visual pranks and came up with this image:

Aline Smithson, Laying Eggs


Shortly after, I discovered it featured on a German blog, with a description of how repulsive it was, and I knew I had done my job....and that they didn't have a sense of humor!

I'm so glad that everyone who submitted does...Thank you to all the photographers that DO know how to laugh, how to see humor in the world and in themselves.

THE LENSCRATCH VISUAL PRANKS AND PUNS EXHIBITION

Ken Rosenthal, South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona



Linda Morrow, My life as a Succulent, Naples in Long Beach, CA



Kerry Rowand, Untitled, Motel Room, Villas, New Jersey



Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Grandma's Rocking Chair, Detroit, MI



Joseph Brunjes, Dead End, Wilmington, NC



Bea Fresno, Pebble beach Bum, Costa Brava



Peter Neill, Rocket - From the series, 'The Fantastic Journey', Ireland



Peter Combe, canT afFORD, (TOM FORD), 2011



A. Scott Britton, Fallout, from the ongoing series "Let Them Eat Cake", Washington, DC



Diane Cockerill, Crapi Apartments, Overland Avenue, West Los Angeles, CA



Jerry Downs, Portrait of the Artist, Corte Madera, CA



Emma Powell, Instant Messenger Pigeon, Middlebury, VT



Alison Overton, Joke Glasses, Penland, NC



Lori Bell, The Russian Hat, Weatherford,TX



Michelle Kathleen Anderson, Ringworm, Chicago, IL



Samantha Watkins, Postage Dew, Victoria BC



Joanna Black, In Plane Sight, The Egyptian Room, National Museum of Scotland



Robbie Kaye, Up or Down, Los Angeles, CA



David Cory, Freeze, South Bend, IN



Jim Marx, Normal No More, Los Angeles, CA



Marietta Van Buhler, "Washed Up", Ann Arbor, MI (backyard)



Dara McGrath, Liskova German-Czech Border, Liskova German-Czech Border Nov 2010



Laurie McCormick, Eat Your Vegetables, Laurie's Kitchen, Brentwood, CA



Susanna Corcoran, Lashious, Oakland, California



Bruce Morton, Outdoor Lighting, Warsaw, IL


Larry Torno, Giraffe and a Half, St. Louis, MO



Neil DaCosta, 50, the means streets of Portland, OR



Mitchell Hartman, Attack of the Killer Taxis, NYC



Mitchell Hartman, A Tourist in New York, NYC



Jack Simon, Leaving Japan, Reflection onto window facing tarmac at Narita International Airport, Tokyo, Japan. November, 2008



Barry W Hughes, Health Centre, 2009, Kildare, Ireland



Emanuela Franchini, Vacuum Attack, self portrait, London



David Ranc, "Cul de Sac Berthaud", Paris, France



Neil Phillips, "F U", Los Angeles, CA

8 comments:

R Montalban said...

Thank you for making me laugh everyone, and thank you Aline for including my image too :-)

Stone Bridge Studios said...

Thanks Aline! So fun, so needed.

Larry the Artist said...

Interesting collection of interpretive images as usual.

Jerry Downs said...

Thanks Aline and all of my fellow funny photographers for the straight story on your twisted selves!

Carrie said...

Brought out my inner "adolescent"--literally laughed out loud on many of them. Great show!

J. Wesley Brown said...

Nice dose of punography.

Neil Phillips said...

Nice one. A fun theme to submit to. Thanks.
Neil

Rejnowska & Polera said...

this is a great post - i loved a lot of the photographs, and it's so interesting to see the great work that some photographers do, even though you might not know it from their own websites! do more posts like this!