tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34555802024-03-07T06:34:51.310-05:00david emerickItems of interest in photography, art, and digital imagingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-37042822608449785652011-07-13T08:36:00.003-04:002011-07-13T08:41:43.172-04:00The Photographer, The Entrepreneur, The Stockbroker And Their Rent-A-Mobby Jeremy Nicholl @ The Russian Photos BlogA few years ago somebody played a cruel joke on Flickr’s DeleteMe group, where a photo is posted and self-appointed critics decide whether to keep or trash the image. A picture of a cyclist was posted and condemnation was quick. “Soft”, “grey”, “blurry” were among the criticisms as the judges decided the picture was, well, a bit crap. Then it was Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-7203571413892631812011-06-15T08:59:00.002-04:002011-06-15T09:03:01.615-04:00CHARLES TRAUB with Phong Buiby Phong Bui @ The Brooklyn RailOn the occasion of his exhibit Object of My Creation: Photographs 1967 – 1990 (February 17 – April 23, 2011 at Gitterman Gallery) the photographer Charles Traub welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui at the MFA Program in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where Traub has been Chair since 1987, to discuss his life and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-42926156595913138952011-04-20T09:05:00.002-04:002011-04-20T09:10:46.772-04:00Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland BarthesBy Brian Dillon @ The GuardianOn Monday 25 February 1980, at the invitation of the future French culture minister Jack Lang, Roland Barthes attended a lunch hosted by François Mitterrand. As he rallied support for his presidential campaign of the following year, the leader of the Socialist party was in the habit of entertaining Parisian writers and intellectuals at relatively informal gatherings;Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-67925206289850160182011-04-14T09:05:00.002-04:002011-04-14T09:08:57.658-04:00Ed Ruscha's revolutionary moment in street photographyBy Christopher Knigh @ Los Angeles TimesYou don't hear much about street photography anymore. There are lots of reasons why. One, hitherto unacknowledged, is that artist Ed Ruscha's extraordinary photo books turned the genre upside down in the 1960s. It hasn't been the same since. In the '60s, street photography's art world stature was peaking. We'll get to Ruscha's brilliant reinvention in a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-70604280327514944762011-02-21T08:48:00.002-05:002011-02-21T08:53:06.391-05:00Images from the secret STASI archivesby Simon Menner @ ConscientiousI am very much interested in images that can be decoded on several layers with different results. For instance I took a series of pictures of objects that have been used in real murder cases to kill people. So a knife in this series can be seen simply as a knife or as something that goes far beyond. Both seems to be true. But it is very difficult, if not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-7450905223481519692011-01-24T16:57:00.002-05:002011-01-24T17:01:02.285-05:00The Lost Eggleston Reviewby Doug HarveyThis is the piece the WEEKLY didn't want - thought I should get it out there before the exhibit closes this weekend:The Egg Shall Rise Again!William Eggleston and resurgence of the here-and-nowIt’s hard to imagine, but William Eggleston’s art was considered quite revolutionary in its time. Of course that probably says more about the times – the 1970’s – and his chosen medium – Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-56612005910025565432010-12-07T14:53:00.002-05:002010-12-07T14:58:29.550-05:00Beneath the surface mood@ The EconomistIn a remarkable, if chequered career spanning seven decades, André Kertész pioneered modern photography. Hovering between abstraction, constructivism and surrealism, yet avoiding any specific avant-garde movement, Kertész, a Hungarian-born émigré, was guided by a personal yet rigorous aesthetic. A new travelling show of 300 images, that begins at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, combinesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-68033063636804765392010-12-01T22:19:00.003-05:002010-12-01T22:25:10.349-05:00Adobe CS5 fixAdobe released a fix for CS5 and the color management issue. See: view Adobe KbUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-17348317823563831932010-10-22T10:49:00.002-04:002010-10-22T10:53:34.002-04:00THIN-SLICING REALITYby Donald Kuspit @ artnetMaking a photograph -- a snapshot of a passing scene or the staging of a scene as though for posterity -- has usually been understood as an act of consciousness, what Henri Cartier-Bresson called a ”decisive moment” of consciousness, but I suggest that it has less to do with consciousness than the unconscious. It has to do with that ”critical part of rapid cognition knownUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-29129573525150643852010-09-03T10:22:00.002-04:002010-09-03T10:31:11.608-04:00Landscapes Framed by a ChevyBy KAREN ROSENBERG @ NY TimesMr. Friedlander took his black-and-white, square-format photographs entirely from the interior of standard rental cars — late-model Toyotas and Chevys, by the looks of them — on various road trips over the past 15 years. In these pictures our vast, diverse country is buffered by molded plastic dashboards and miniaturized in side-view mirrors.Don’t expect the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-34544687658789617592010-08-27T10:27:00.003-04:002010-08-27T10:32:31.951-04:00Land Grabby Francesca Levy @ ForbesBollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan and fashion giant Vivienne Westwood have an unlikely common muse: a 33-year-old Polaroid instant camera. Make no mistake--this isn't one of those handheld gadgets that became ubiquitous in the 1970s.The so-called 20x24 Land Camera is a 235-pound behemoth, producing prints nearly 2 feet square. Edwin Land (1909-91), founder of Polaroid, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-38071783867282145322010-08-17T11:26:00.002-04:002010-08-17T11:29:40.488-04:00Larry Sultan: The king of colour photographyBy Michael Collins @ The IndependentPhotography tends to deliver an exaggerated account, revealing the familiar with an unfamiliar and unsettling degree of detail – like the experience of listening to a recording of your own voice. When the late American photographer Larry Sultan made a series of pictures of his parents in their home, he was presented not only with the distortions made through Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-88725941809250373482010-08-05T14:27:00.002-04:002010-08-05T14:31:33.275-04:00Ansel Adams controversy: Will Fresno State's art gallery show disputed photos?by Mike Boehm @ LOs Angeles TimesDid Ansel Adams take this picture?And if the answer is in doubt, under what conditions should it and others like it be the subject of an exhibition in a university art gallery?The question of whether the photos are by Adams has been unanswered since 2000, when Rick Norsigian found a trove of old-fashioned glass-plate negatives of nature scenes from Yosemite and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-29127802959000329842010-07-26T10:59:00.002-04:002010-07-26T11:03:50.777-04:00HP launches large-format negatives for fine art photographyby Barney Cox @ printweek.comHP has premiered the results of a new software tool that enables photographers to produce large-format negatives for contact-printing alternative photographic processes.Large-Format Photo Negatives, which will be launched at Photokina in September, was used by Magnum Photographer Elliott Erwitt to create a new edition of 76x102cm platinum prints, which were shown at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-51583939514107321492010-07-20T14:00:00.001-04:002010-07-20T14:02:27.265-04:00Niepce in EnglandUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-58866903070839974082010-07-14T15:36:00.002-04:002010-07-14T15:40:41.864-04:00Inner Viewsby Kevin Day @ Cool HuntingWith a careful eye, South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa's highly-saturated, large-format photos of migrant workers and urban natural disasters document the state of his native country and its inhabitants today. Depicting everyday people in their natural environments, Mthethwa's upcoming exhibit, "Inner Views" at Harlem's Studio Museum, shows a particularly human sideUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-55724398328343934352010-06-02T12:52:00.002-04:002010-06-02T12:56:35.977-04:00Elegy for the Polaroidby Peter Conrad @ The ObserverPolaroids taken by leading artists from Ansel Adams to David Hockney will be auctioned off next month. These images show how a now dead technology brought us a different vision of reality.Photographs, being infinitely reproducible, shouldn't have an intrinsic commercial value. But the art market over the past few decades has done a fine job of leveraging images and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-31073688574576997142010-04-30T08:32:00.003-04:002010-04-30T08:36:39.269-04:00Why street photography is facing a moment of truthby Sean O'Hagan @ The ObserverIt took root in New York in the 60s and 70s with compelling images of street life that captured the heart of the city. But anxieties about privacy, terrorism, and paedophilia have conspired to make the art of street photography ever more difficult. Sean O'Hagan recalls the movement's heyday and charts today's pioneers.Back in the 1960s, when New York was the centreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-45646640745891730842010-04-20T12:17:00.003-04:002010-04-20T12:22:04.663-04:00PICTURE PERFECTby Peter Schjeldahl @ The New YorkerHenri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a taker of great photographs. Some three hundred of them make for an almost unendurably majestic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, from his famous portly puddle-jumper of 1932 (“Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris”) to views of Native Americans in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1971, one of his last visual essays as the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-7486010207244386852010-04-16T13:51:00.002-04:002010-04-16T13:55:56.403-04:00James Welling puts five questions to Stephen Shore@ ArtInfo.comI came to photography in fits and starts. In the early 1970s, I was entranced by Minimal art. I was particularly interested in Carl Andre’s Quincy Book, published in 1973. Andre hired a photographer to take pictures of his hometown, Quincy, Massachusetts. The book records situations that are isomorphic with Andre’s work: piles of things, quarries, roads. Quincy Book is, above all, a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-33850175786279989622010-04-15T11:24:00.002-04:002010-04-15T11:30:00.790-04:00Noted photographer probed in misuse of Buffalo State camerasBy Phil Fairbanks @ Buffalo NewsLeslie Krims is known across the world as a surrealist photographer with a dark, satirical style.Unfortunately for Krims, a longtime professor at Buffalo State College, there’s a new unwanted wrinkle on his international resume: allegations that he took two school cameras worth $45,000 and used them solely for personal and private business use.Krims, a professor Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-59145318892556157432010-03-23T16:12:00.002-04:002010-03-23T16:15:43.855-04:00Dots Do It Better, Says Phone Camera Chip DesignerBy Richard Adhikari @ TechNewsWorld InVisage Technologies, a venture-backed startup, announced on Monday a technology in the field of digital photography.Called "QuantumFilm," it uses quantum dot-based image sensors instead of the more traditional silicon.The new technology will offer four times the performance and twice the dynamic range as silicon, InVisage claims.The company is targeting the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-17726243307136413362010-03-02T11:29:00.002-05:002010-03-02T11:34:46.142-05:00Long ExposureThe death and resurrection of photography in a digitized worldby Jennifer Allen @ FRIEZEPhotography is dead. That news may come as a surprise, since obituaries about art tend to be written about painting. Invented in the 1830s, photo-graphy is still in its infancy as an art form compared to the centuries-old medium of painting. Despite inventions like portable paint tubes and fast-drying acrylic,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-22143872251809236232010-02-24T12:40:00.002-05:002010-02-24T12:42:59.819-05:00The Crusade For Color PhotographyBy Claire O'Neill @ NPRLife is in color. So it seems pretty obvious to photograph in color, especially nowadays when black and white seems "classic," i.e. hopelessly retro. But that wasn't always the case. Back in the 60s and 70s -- at least in the art world -- color photography was a source of major contention. In the spirit of revolt, or individuality, or just plain curiosity, a few Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-76452181218065042882010-02-18T09:05:00.000-05:002010-02-18T09:06:23.897-05:00Nan Goldin InterviewUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1