G. Colton Flea Market

Joel Levinson's '70s-era photography inspires a weekend bazaar at the LA store

About six months ago, Garrett Colton of G. Colton (formerly Standard Goods) discovered the photography of Joel D. Levinson. Colton—who fills his Los Angeles store with new designs alongside vintage objects, magazines and books—was taken with the images in Levinson’s book “Fleamarkets,” which reveals an intimate look at California’s flea market culture of the mid-1970s. Now Colton has planned a flea market of his own …

Mike Mellia’s American Dream

Barbie pink and psychiatric green in an exhibition on perfection and perversity

“I am interested in exploring a fine art approach to advertising, and an advertising approach to fine art,” says photographer Mike Mellia. His latest show, “The American Dream,” explores the poles of perfection and perversity in society at large. A series of portraits and still lifes, the images bear a likeness to Mellia’s other work in advertising. Glossy and glorified, the somber messaging falls even …

Endbahnhof by Kate Seabrook

A photographic trip through all 173 of Berlin's U-Bahn stations

by Jason Kenny In 2011 Melbourne photographer Kate Seabrook moved back to Berlin looking for a new project. She found her muse in the 173 stations of the city’s underground subway system, the U-Bahn. Aptly titling the series “Endbahnhof”—which translates to “railhead” in German—Seabrook snapped each and every port beneath the streets. “It’s an idea that evolved,” she says, recalling a photo she took of …