tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34555802012-02-14T13:48:03.971-05:00Items of interest in photography, art, and digital imagingDavid Emericknoreply@blogger.comBlogger5041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-37042822608449785652011-07-13T08:36:00.003-04:002011-07-13T08:41:43.172-04:00

by 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

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by 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

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By 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;

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By 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

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by 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

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by 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 –

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@ 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, combines

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Adobe released a fix for CS5 and the color management issue. See: view Adobe Kb

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by 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 known

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By 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

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by 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,

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By 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

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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

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by 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

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by 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 side

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by 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

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by 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 centre

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by 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

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@ 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

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By 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

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By 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

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The 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,

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By 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

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The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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by Paul Roth @ The BallardianI recently organized an exhibition of photographs by Edward Burtynsky, bringing together 12 years of his imagery on the subject of oil at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Burtynsky, a Canadian born of Ukrainian heritage in 1955, is respected internationally for his 25-year focus on industrially-transformed landscapes. His photographs of quarries,

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By RANDY KENNEDY @ NY TimesLarry Sultan, a highly influential California photographer whose 1977 collaboration, “Evidence” — a book made up solely of pictures culled from vast industrial and government archives — became a watershed in the history of art photography, died on Sunday at his home in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 63.The cause was cancer, said his wife, Katherine, who is known as Kelly.In

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StartHere from ASMP dpBestflow on Vimeo.

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By Martha Schwendener @ The Village VoiceThe question of why certain practices thrive at particular moments feels like the art world equivalent of asking why honeybee populations have collapsed in the last decades or mussels have started growing in the Hudson. Why, for instance, are contemporary photographers—or, if you like, artists working with photography—obsessed with abstraction, materiality

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By Jed Perl @ The New RepublicMichael Fried,who shot to intellectual stardom in 1967 with an essay in Artforum called "Art and Objecthood," is an intimidating writer. He looks very closely. He has passionate feelings about what he sees. And he shapes his impressions into a theory that fits snugly with all the other theories he has ever had. Whatever his chosen subject--Diderot, Courbet, Manet,

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By Randy Kennedy @ NYTimesRoy DeCarava, the child of a single mother in Harlem who turned that neighborhood into his canvas and became one of the most important photographers of his generation by chronicling its people and its jazz giants, has died. He was 89.His death was announced by Sherry Turner DeCarava, his wife and an art historian who wrote frequently about his work.Mr. DeCarava trained

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By HOLLAND COTTER @ NY TimesLike probably a zillion other school kids, “My country tears of thee” was the way I understood the first line of “America.” Maybe that’s the way the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank heard it too when he came to the United States from Europe in 1947, at 22, with English his second, third or fourth language. Sadness seems to trickle through the 83 photographs in his

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The Minox re-invented!"The new digital Classic Camera from MINOX comes in a really stylish format! On the outside it features a miniaturized shell, designed in great detail, and inside it is packed with innovative technology in the form of a powerful digital camera. A unique harmony of classic design and state-of-the-art features. This new edition of the wee camera is a logical and up to date

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"This invaluable resource demystifies the complex, rapidly changing, and sometimes confusing world of digital print technologies. It describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints. A removable

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stunning bass-string shot from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

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By Alastair Smart @ Telegraph UKAn urchin on the streets of Manila; a demoiselle in a Parisian café, even a Trappist priest in his study – all were caught in the act by André Kertész. Caught in the act of reading, that is. A pioneer of snapshot photography, Kertész always saw pictorial potential in folk absorbed by a good book, newspaper or letter.Thriving on the paradox that even in the most

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By Giles Tremlett @ The GuardianNew evidence has emerged that one of the most famous war photographs, shot during the Spanish civil war by Robert Capa, was taken well away from the battlefield, reopening the debate as to whether it is a fake.Capa's dramatic "The Falling Soldier", the photograph of a Spanish militiaman being killed by a bullet as he charges down a slope, was taken miles away

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Jan Saudek. Animated Photographs. from Tadas Svilainis on Vimeo.

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@ ElectronistaKodak this morning said it would soon phase out its longstanding Kodachrome film, putting an end to a significant era of film photography. The company says it plans to end the 74-year production as sales of the classic film now make up less than one percent of its film camera business, which itself is in the minority at Kodak. About 70 percent of the company's income is from digital

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By KAREN ROSENBERG @ New York TimesIf you were a serious photographer in the 1960s, you traveled the country documenting social change (Garry Winogrand, Robert Frank) or pursued technical perfection in the studio (Richard Avedon, Irving Penn). Photography had to be pure, true to itself and its subjects.This was unfair, because other artists were allowed to incorporate bits of photographs into

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by Kurt W Forster @ TATE Etc.Armin Linke has a studio in a humdrum part of Milan, but if one wishes to do more than catch a glimpse of this peripatetic photographer, one needs to travel with him. He packs his bags whenever something grabs his attention. At first this has nothing to do with the camera, but everything to do with his eye and a disarming intelligence. Linke quietly scrutinises his

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by Benjamin Secher @ The TelegraphThe year was 1903 and, less than a decade after they'd invented cinema, Auguste and Louis Lumière were once again down at the Paris patent office claiming a breakthrough in photography; this time, a practical system for recording the world in glorious true colour.They named their radical technique the autochrome, identified its innovative component as potato

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@ dpreviewPhase One has announced the P40+ medium format digital back. The new system incorporates the company's Sensor+ technology that offers both a full 40MP resolution capture mode and a second 10MP 'Sensor+' mode for faster image capture. The Sensor+ mode also increases maximum sensitivity from ISO 800 (in full resolution mode) to ISO 3200. The camera has started shipping at approximately

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By RANDY KENNEDY @ NY TimesWhen the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay.But the rolls turned out to be in

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By RANDY KENNEDY @ New York Times“LISTEN, do I have time to feed my pig?” the photographer Danny Lyon asked, picking up the telephone one morning at his home in rural New Mexico. “It will only take about 10 minutes. I’ll call you back,” he said, adding: “That way I can start the day with a clean conscience.”Among a group of revolutionaries whose work rose to prominence in the late 1960s and ’70s

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by Waldemar Januszczak @ London TimesThe iPod is on. And Chicks on Speed are howling in my ear. “They say I’m vermin,” growls the singer. “Got more faces than Cindy Sherman.” A quick flick of the iPod wheel and I’m with the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. In Grand Mal, their singer runs through the problems he’s having with a girl. “She takes Cindy Sherman pictures/And she cuts herself,” admits the poor

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By EDAN CORKILL @ Japan TimesJust two minutes into an interview with artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, it became clear why the famously discreet 61-year-old had agreed to talk about rock band U2's use of one of his photographs on the cover of their latest album, "No Line on the Horizon.""The first thing I want you to let people know," he said, seated in an office at Ginza's Gallery Koyanagi, "is there is

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By matt buchanan @ gizmodoThis is what I picture when I think of a camera that doesn't take any shit, like a Marine. (There's an army green and charcoal, not just orange, speaking of.) It's a no BS block of brushed metal that's slim enough to actually slide into your pocket.Read OnOne tough camera!

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By MARGARETT LOKE @ New York TimesHelen Levitt, a major photographer of the 20th century who caught fleeting moments of surpassing lyricism, mystery and quiet drama on the streets of her native New York, died in her sleep at her home in Manhattan on Sunday. She was 95.Her death was confirmed by her brother, Bill Levitt, of Alta, Utah.Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully

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@Photo District News"Even today, many documentary photographers will tell you they are influenced by the works of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and 40s. Under the direction of Roy Emerson Stryker, the FSA sent photographers to document the plight of the rural farmer during the Great Depression and the progress of New Deal programs. When the U.S. entered World War II, the

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by Jonathan Jones @ The GuardianIn the early 20th century, the photograph still seemed new. The German intellectual Walter Benjamin tried to understand how photography changed art: it replaced the "aura" of the masterpiece with a new, democratic way of making pictures. Going on for a century later, we're living in the midst of a technological revolution that has left photography itself behind.

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On March 13th 2009 the web became twenty years old.

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Photographs can create illusions, communicate arguments or document a changing world. Learn how to look at them hereby Ian Jeffrey @ The GuardianUnderstanding photographs has never been straightforward. Not all photographs – including some of the best known – were taken with a clear idea in mind. Even if they were, the idea was soon overlooked or forgotten. An outline history of photography would

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Frederick SommerVisions and Images was part of a series on the arts done in the late 1970's and 80's. Interviewies include: Garry Winogrand, Elliot Erwitt, Frederick Sommer, Harry Callahan, Joel Meyerowitz, Arnold Newman, Duane Michals, and Cornell Capa + Burk Uzzle."The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive features interviews Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel conducted with prominent artists,

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by Rachel Campbell-Johnston @ The Times OnlineIt's a good thing that that wobbly bridge got fixed because you can almost feel the stamp of the military boots as Rodchenko and Popova march into Tate Modern. Here is the art of the Russian Revolution: clear, strong, insistent and iconoclastic. As you walk through this show, it takes over your imagination - a bit like Bolshevik troops once took over

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-31729115271335058372009-02-12T13:38:00.002-05:002009-02-12T13:42:30.665-05:00

On another note there was an interesting little blurb about Suzanne Mooney's new work at SEESAW Magazine. "I photograph the diagram itself. The work denies the erotic charge that the photographic images may have, and becomes a humorous but disturbing comment on glamour photography."Interesting work."The camera simultaneously offers us access to the view whilst denying us the full appreciation of

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-753831683346054112009-02-12T10:58:00.003-05:002009-02-12T11:08:21.395-05:00

by Aaron Schuman @ SEESAW MagazineAS: Aaron SchumanTP: Tod PapageorgeAS: You’ve often said that you were originally inspired to pursue photography because of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Where did you find his work in the first place?TP: It was totally by accident. I was taking an introductory photography class at university, and I guess I was curious enough to go to the library and look at some

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-1332981905682597262009-01-18T22:26:00.002-05:002009-01-18T22:30:01.304-05:00

by Liz Jobey @ The GuardianFor anybody interested in the changing nature of photography over the last 30 years, Michael Fried's Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before is an important book. The reputation of its author – one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century – is guaranteed to capture the attention of photographers and artists alike. Its size and

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As printed snapshots vanish, we're losing more than shoe boxes full of mementosBy Dushko Petrovich @ Boston GlobeONE HUNDRED YEARS ago, one of Paris's richest men had a quixotic dream. Returning from a personal trip to China and Japan, the banker Albert Kahn decided to build a huge visual archive of the planet. Kahn believed that mutual misunderstanding was the source of world conflict, so in

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-33932540422260887032009-01-06T16:37:00.003-05:002009-01-06T16:42:36.627-05:00

Photographer David Maisel became fascinated by canisters of cremated remains at the Oregon State Hospital. They spoke to him of secrets, transformation and loss.By Leah Ollman @ LA TimesThe first photograph in David Maisel's new book presents a view into a storeroom that clearly doesn't get a lot of foot traffic. An old wooden desk with no chair is parked in the corner. Bits of debris have

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By KEN JOHNSON @ New York TimesNEW HAVEN — Photographs are shameless. They’ll do anything to get your attention. They’ll show you celebrities in and out of their clothes, exotic creatures and objects, places and events that you would never otherwise see. Another, paradoxical strategy for captivating viewers is to show them something they can’t immediately understand. Whether because of its visual

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by Liz Jobey @ The Guardian UKEver since 1971, when she was a student at Harvard and decided to take portraits of the people who shared her boarding house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the American photographer Susan Meiselas has questioned the motivation behind her pictures and their relevance to the wider world. She has been a member of the international co-operative Magnum Photos since 1976,

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Buckle up for some curious photo road tripsBy Leslie Camhi @ The Village Voice'Life is in color, but black-and-white is more realistic," director Samuel Fuller once said. Two exhibitions—a retrospective devoted to the sumptuously hued visions of a decadent Southern gentleman, and a show of vintage black-and-white prints, south-of-the border tabloid fodder by a man of the people—suggest he was

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-9419443133248756292008-12-10T08:33:00.001-05:002008-12-10T08:35:51.585-05:00

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-58818149203313462492008-11-25T09:02:00.003-05:002008-11-25T09:07:53.177-05:00

As a contributor I am happy to announce that 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers by Andrew Darlow was chosen as the winner in the "Photography: Instructional/How-To" category of The National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.Press Release

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By Megan Buskey @ The NationOne afternoon in early September, the Czech photographer Josef Koudelka was administering a bottle of cognac to a group of well-wishers at the Pace/MacGill Gallery, two placid, spacious rooms on the ninth floor of an office building on Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan. The occasion was the opening of an anniversary exhibition of photographs Koudelka had taken forty

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-38148128086373305842008-11-08T17:19:00.000-05:002008-11-08T17:20:58.549-05:00

Michael Reichmann interviewed Henry a month or so ago and has put the interview up on the Luminous Landscape site.Click here to view

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David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-84545199857842374292008-10-08T09:35:00.002-04:002008-10-08T09:41:16.806-04:00

I must applaud Mark on the development of his site! It has come a long way and continues to develop nicely. There is a load of information on the permmenance of digital printing."Aardenburg Imaging & Archives was founded in 2007 by Mark McCormick-Goodhart. It is located in the historic Hyde House in Lee, Massachusetts. AaI&A collaborates with serious amateur and professional print makers,

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-83658989140031404642008-09-18T10:32:00.002-04:002008-09-18T13:30:32.670-04:00

Peter Campus, Douglas Gordon and David A Ross in conversation @ TATE Etc.Peter Campus was one of the first artists to explore the formal possibilities of film and video technology. Douglas Gordon, who admires Campus's work, is best known for his iconic video installation 24 Hour Psycho. The two artists talk to curator David A Ross. DAVID A ROSS : Both of you have worked in the medium of video,

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-52981099779089930762008-09-11T08:21:00.001-04:002008-09-11T08:23:47.141-04:00

Adobe's SVP of the Creative Business Unit - Johnny L and Photoshop Product Manager John Nack show off some upcoming CS4 technologies as well as technology Adobe is working on beyond CS4.Podcast

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Australian and Japanese artists explore the ambiguity of time, memory and realityBy ASHLEY RAWLINGSSpecial to The Japan TimesHenri Cartier-Bresson's legacy of the "decisive moment" had a profound impact on photography. As a cofounder of the photographic cooperative Magnum Photos in 1947, his philosophy influenced a whole generation of photojournalists, and, for decades, Magnum photographers were

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By KAREN ROSENBERG @ New York TimesAs it sifts through the riches of the extraordinary Gilman Collection of photographs, acquired three years ago, the Met is slowly bringing its holdings of contemporary photography up to speed. In the fall the museum dedicated a new gallery, the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall, to the exhibition of post-1960 photography.“Photography on Photography: Reflections on

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David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-17817464202844592572008-07-11T15:47:00.013-04:002008-12-11T06:15:10.213-05:00

Wow. Things have been very hectic this Summer and it has been a month since my last post. I have assumed new responsibilities at the school here and have been on the run. I did however escape for 10 days to do a little unwinding. I packed up the mountain bike and drove to the mountains of Pennsylvania east of Scranton to visit a long time friend, Brian, on his farm. Excellent riding and fishing

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By Roberta Smith @ NY TimesFrom the daguerreotype to the cellphone snapshot, the history of photography has unfolded as a series of miracles, each of which has profoundly altered our understanding of the time-space continuum. As the innovations become familiar, the photographs become miracles in another way, as connections to a past we’ve never seen.“Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840-

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By Christy Lange @ FRIEZETaryn Simon’s photographs of restricted locations reveal an unsettling side to the American Dream‘It’s 3am and something is happening in the world […] There’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing.’ So began the narration of a recent television advertisement for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, unleashing a flurry of discussion about the White House

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia "Head #06 2001"Max Kozloff on Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography @ TATE Etc.The camera has always been a socialised instrument, well equipped to describe shifting behaviour, environments and manners. Of course we rely on it to give a specifically factual account of them. Inevitably, situations change, but this testimonial function of photography remains

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-47040914032463614372008-05-23T22:40:00.002-04:002008-12-11T06:15:10.919-05:00

"...as the founder of the International Fund for Concerned Photography, and the founder of ICP in 1974, Cornell was a singular force in the world of photography, opening our eyes to the power of the photographic image as an agent of change."May he rest in peace.ICP tribute

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-14192090578715692052008-05-19T10:49:00.003-04:002008-12-11T06:15:11.093-05:00

Pretty ingenious! FLICKR page

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by Jonathan Richards @ TimesOnlineA device that lets a camera take pictures with 100 times the resolution of the most advanced models on the market is poised to revolutionise amateur photography.The Gigapan allows people to take pictures which are more than a gigapixel - or 1,000 megapixels - in size, effectively turning a single photograph into a panoramic experience, around which the viewer

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A touchstone for all of us... Rest in Peace..New York Times article

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@ The TelegraphCatching his subjects off-guard with a camera peeking from his jacket, the photographer Robert Frank 'captured a sad poem right out of America on to film', as his friend Jack Kerouac put it. As Frank's masterpiece, The Americans, is reissued after almost 50 years, Michael Shelden looks at his workOn patrol near the Mississippi river one afternoon in November 1955, Lt RE Brown of

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by Beate Lakotta @ Lens CultureFew experiences are likely to affect us as profoundly as an encounter with death. Yet most deaths occur almost covertly, at one remove from our everyday lives. Death and dying are arguably our last taboos – the topics our society finds most difficult. We certainly fear them more than our ancestors did. Opportunities to learn more about them are rare indeed. READ ON

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-91707346715414070982008-05-02T14:45:00.003-04:002008-12-11T06:15:12.257-05:00

20×200 has been getting all sorts of press lately (NY Times, Houston Chronicle, WIred Magazine just to name a few), and they’ve featured some well known artists. They now have added to their accomplishments an edition by two people in the highest level of art stardom, Mike and Doug Starn. Unfortunately the work went almost immediately.20x200

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By Hugh Hart, Special to The Times "Video is a fugitive medium," said Getty Research Institute's Glenn R. Phillips, and he should know. As curator for "California Video," running at the Getty through June 8, he enjoyed the luxury of a massive archive produced during the '60s, '70s and '80s. The challenge: Most of the tapes, recorded in obsolete formats, were crusted with oxidized crud that made

David Emericknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455580.post-80128402011062801292008-04-21T09:13:00.004-04:002008-12-11T06:15:12.681-05:00

@ Eric EtheridgeIn 2000, the Yale University Art Galley acquired the 193 prints that comprise Robert Adams' book What We Bought: The New World (cover right). Two years later, Tod Papageorge wrote this critical appraisal, which also includes a significant amount of details about Adams' working method, derived from conversations with the artist. The essay originally appeared in the Yale University

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By RANDY KENNEDY @ NY TimesThe phone call was routine, the kind often made before big auctions. Sotheby’s was preparing to sell a striking rust-brown image of a leaf on paper, long thought to have been made by William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the inventors of photography. So the auction house contacted a Baltimore historian considered to be the world’s leading Talbot expert and asked if he could

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By PHILIP GEFTER @ New York TimesThe soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the red tiles roofs of Italy. But always the eye is drawn to the distinct line where sky meets earth.In Mr. Leong’s panoramic photographs of major cities and rural landscapes

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MacUpdate is running a 1?2 off promo of LightZone today.LightZone: built for photography"LightZone fully embraces fearless visual experimentation. LightZone provides a unique visual approach to digital photo editing, allowing you to focus on what you want to do with your photos, not how you do it. All operations are live and have an immediate effect upon which you can make new editing decisions.

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@ APPLECUPERTINO, California—March 28, 2008— Apple® today released Aperture™ 2.1, which introduces an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy for photographers to use specialized third party imaging software right from within Aperture. Available today as a free software update, Aperture 2.1 includes the Apple-developed plug-in, Dodge & Burn, which adds brush-based tools for dodge (lighten),

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by CHARLIE LeDUFF @ Vanity FairPublished in 1958, Robert Frank’s photographic manifesto, The Americans, torched the national myth, bringing him such comrades as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and—for a controversial documentary—the Rolling Stones. On a trip to China, the 83-year-old rebel of postwar film still defies expectations.Robert Frank, the photographic master, the last human being it’s

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Once again Magnum in Motion has created a powerful piece.Magnum in Motion

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By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH @ New York TimesON a recent sunny but frigid morning, I strolled up Broadway through Times Square with Näkki Goranin, a visitor from Vermont making a pilgrimage through the swirling crowds and the sensory overload of all the signage. We stopped on the west side of Broadway between 51st and 52nd Streets. It looked nondescript to me, with the usual fast food, souvenir shop, gym

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A detail from Marco Breuer’s Untitled (C-498), 2004, made with scratched chromogenic paper. by Eric Bryant @ ArtNewsIn Marco Breuer’s recent photographs, black specks dance across a white surface, leaving faint trails that mark the passage of time. Sensuous blocks of yellow glow like crystals lit from within, and drippy parallel lines that seem to sit on top of the paper call to mind Action

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