tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37425520970888683352024-03-12T19:51:12.830-07:00PPV WeeklyA blog dedicated to highlighting the best weekly internet discoveries in Photography, Film, and Performance.Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-60503471591525102112009-09-09T20:44:00.000-07:002009-09-09T21:08:54.302-07:00Foto Follies: How Photography Lost Its Virginity on the Way to the Bank by Duane Michals (Photographer)<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt;"><a class="underline" rel="nofollow" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9783865212757" onclick="openAndMoveWindow('/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9783865212757');return(false);" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/15010000/15018407.JPG" alt="Foto Follies by Duane Michals: Book Cover" border="0" height="277" width="185" /></a></h1><br /><br />Tattle-Tales from the Land of Fauxtography:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 51);font-size:78%;" ><strong></strong></span> <ol><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Photography has never been about money, it had always been about photography. Now that the Haute Kunsters have deemed it art, it's all about money and not about photography.</span> </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>Foxy photographers who call themselves "artists" who take photographs and not photographers, are moron oxys. If a photograph is labeled a mere photograph it is only worth $3,000; if a photograph is labeled a conceptual piece, it fetches $300,000 - semantic sleight of hand.</strong></span> </li><li>Never trust any photograph so large that it can only fit inside a museum. </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);font-size:78%;" ><strong>Color is the new black and white.</strong></span> </li><li>HOW CRITICS FLUFF THEIR FEATHERS AND PREEN WITH IRONIC AND ICONIC JARGON: One intuits that one has experienced highfalutin cultural hyperbole when one has read one or more of the following brand philosopher's names bandied about in one or more sentences of an art speak critique review: Wittgenstein's Tractatus-Logicics-Philosophicus, Nietzsche's Ubermensch, Darrida's deconstructivist construct, Cartesian logic, Lacan's lexicon, and the epigrammatic phenomenology of Husserl and Marceau-Ponty. </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>The announced demise of the decisive moment is premature.</strong></span> </li><li><strong><span style="font-size:78%;">Bill Brandt's nudes give me an art-on.</span></strong> </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>"Kitsch Ray The Wonder Weimaraner Bites William Wegman's Ass" - headline from <em>The Onion</em></strong>.</span> </li><li>Photographers whose next three books will look like their last three-books should quit. </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>The Bechers are the godfathers of the Dusseldorfer Avant-Garde Photo Kunst Academie of Derriere-Garde Photography mafia</strong>.</span> </li><li>GEORGE W. BUSH IS ASS-HOLIER THAN THOU. </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>Art is never boring. Andy Warhol was boring.</strong></span> </li><li>Gary Winogrand was a snapshooter. A snapshooter is a voyeur who loves the act of taking pictures but doesn't necessarily care about the photographs. He left seven thousand rolls of undeveloped films. </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>This is the era of foto fast food. Too many <a href="http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/2006/03/the_moa_grand_s.html">Tillmans</a> will give you heartburn, high cholesterol and a fat ass.</strong></span> </li><li><a href="http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/film/index.html">Diane Arbus</a> is authentic; Cindy Sherman is inauthentic. </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>Museums should never exhibit photographs of visitors looking as art in museums to visitors who are looking at art in museums.</strong></span> </li><li>The Menage-a-trois of the symbiotic relationship between dealers, critics and museum defines contemporary art. The imprimatur of this art-industrial complex informs the hedge fund arrivistes how to decorate their walls with trendy conspicuous consumption. </li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255);"><strong>Mapplethorpe was not a poete maudit. He was an old fashion fairy who unwittingly legitimized Leviticus by describing homosexuals as terminally hedonistic queers. Jerry Falwell would agree.</strong></span></li></ol><br /><br /><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt;"><a class="underline" rel="nofollow" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9783865212757" onclick="openAndMoveWindow('/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9783865212757');return(false);" target="_blank"><br /></a></h1> <div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_MuWNJtJ8XS4/RkuVRrlaL1I/AAAAAAAAAg8/LEKDgORa1-M/s1600-h/michals.sherman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_MuWNJtJ8XS4/RkuVRrlaL1I/AAAAAAAAAg8/LEKDgORa1-M/s400/michals.sherman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065306336898199378" border="0" /></a></div><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">“Sidney paints his fingernails shocking pink, a brilliantly audacious gesture that exposes the discorroborative bias of Revlon’s vacuity, while trenchantly confirming lipstick as a phallic ploy of alpha males vis-à-vis Derrida’s strategies of discorroboration.”</span></blockquote><br /><br /><div class="poc-two-thirds"><div class="wrap6r"><h3>Synopsis</h3><p>Of this satirical look at contemporary photography, Duane Michals has said, "The more serious you are, the sillier you have to be. I have a great capacity for foolishness. It's essential." Whether parodying Wolfgang Tillmans or Andres Serrano, Sherrie Levine (<i>A Duane Michals Photograph of a Sherrie Levine Photograph of a Walker Evans Photograph</i>) or Cindy Sherman (<i>Who is Sydney Sherman?</i>), Michals uses his ferocious wit and keen eye to create images at once humorous and penetrating. As <i>The New York Times</i> described <i>Gursky's Gherkin,</i> the work "explores as never before the sense of picklehood, or what it means to be a pickle." The <i>Times</i> also testified that "this high-humored sendup of arty photography should be required viewing for all art-world heavies, particularly critics, curators and collectors." Michals takes aim at pretensions that are often perceived as deliberately obscuring contemporary art, and in doing so he exemplifies his mastery of both the visual world and the written word, while providing the elemental pleasure of a good laugh.<br /></p></div></div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-10435282497291294482009-09-09T15:06:00.000-07:002009-09-09T15:17:45.042-07:00Omer Fast<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TYfIxEfywKM&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></object><strong>Born 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel; lives in Berlin, Germany</strong> <p>Omer Fast works with film, video, and television footage to examine how individuals and histories interact with each other in narrative. He mixes sound and image into stories that often veer between the personal and the media’s account of current events and history.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/large/2005.376.A-B_Installation_01_g04.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 261px;" src="http://www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/large/2005.376.A-B_Installation_01_g04.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> <p>For <em>Spielberg’s List </em>(2003), a 65-minute, twochannel color video installation, the artist visited Cracow, the Polish city that served as the setting for Steven Spielberg’s film <em>Schindler’s List</em> (1993), and interviewed Poles who worked as extras in the film. Their memories are presented as the dry, authentic accounts of a historical event—in most cases, the 1990s Hollywood production, but in some cases the 1940s German occupation. The artist juxtaposes these accounts with shots of the surviving film set, built near the remains of the actual German labor camp and never fully dismantled. Much like the two sites, which appear increasingly indistinguishable with the passage of time, the work reveals the production of history through the merger of recreation and relic.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.postmastersart.com/archive/omer05/omer_g3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 285px;" src="http://www.postmastersart.com/archive/omer05/omer_g3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p>In <em>Godville</em> (2005), a 51-minute, two-channel color video, historical reenactors at the Colonial Williamsburg living-history museum in Virginia describe their eighteenth-century characters’ lives and their personal lives in ways that seem interchangeable. Fast splices the reenacted and real biographies together, often word-byword, into a rambling narrative that is as aurally fluent as it is temporally dissonant. The work tells the story of a town in America whose residents are unmoored, floating somewhere between the past and the present, between revolution and reenactment, between fiction and life.</p><p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TYfIxEfywKM&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TYfIxEfywKM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /></p> <p>Fast’s recent work <em>The Casting</em> (2007), a shorter four-channel video projection, addresses current events. A U.S. Army sergeant recounts two incidents: a romantic liaison with a young German woman who mutilates herself and the accidental shooting of an Iraqi. The two tales are seamlessly woven together into a script that was given to actors to perform in silent tableaux. While the actors try hard to keep still, the narrator’s recollections slip between setting and story, trying to find relief if not redemption in the act of recalling. JASON EDWARD KAUFMAN</p>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-76121763518125500952009-09-04T15:37:00.000-07:002009-09-04T15:40:36.193-07:00Before New York<div class="featurepic"><a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/09/manhattan/clark-photography"><img style="width: 396px; height: 283px;" src="http://s.ngm.com/2009/09/mannahatta/img/mannahatta.jpg" alt="Manhattan Island" title="Manhattan Island" /></a></div><h2 class="title"><span style="font-size:100%;">When Henry Hudson first looked on Manhattan in 1609, what did he see?</span></h2><div class="article_credits_author"><span style="font-size:78%;">By Peter Miller</span></div> <div class="article_credits_photographer"><span style="font-size:78%;">Computer Generated Image (top) by Markley Boyer, Photograph by Robert Clark</span></div> <div class="content"> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"> Of all the visitors to New York City in recent years, one of the most surprising was a beaver named José. No one knows exactly where he came from. Speculation is he swam down the Bronx River from suburban Westchester County to the north. He just showed up one wintry morning in 2007 on a riverbank in the Bronx Zoo, where he gnawed down a few willow trees and built a lodge.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">"If you'd asked me at the time what the chances were that there was a beaver in the Bronx, I'd have said zero," said Eric Sanderson, an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), headquartered at the Bronx Zoo. "There hasn't been a beaver in New York City in more than 200 years."</span></p> </div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-51900624052471476202009-09-04T15:14:00.000-07:002009-09-04T15:17:38.989-07:00Webcam Reporting<div class="entry-body"> <p><a href="http://www.astro.ucla.edu/%7Eobs/towercam.htm" style="display: inline;"><img style="width: 373px; height: 279px;" alt="Finalwilsonwebcam" class="at-xid-6a00d8341ce76f53ef0120a5411606970b image-full" src="http://pdnedu.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341ce76f53ef0120a5411606970b-800wi" title="Finalwilsonwebcam" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Spotted via the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/mt-wilson-web-camera-goes-down.html">Los Angeles Times L.A. Now blog</a>.</em></span></p><p><br />A huge wildfire has knocked out a popular webcam at the historic Mt. Wilson Observatory above Los Angeles. Here is the last image transmitted by the <a href="http://www.astro.ucla.edu/%7Eobs/towercam.htm">Mt. Wilson Observatory Towercam</a> before operators lost contact with the camera yesterday afternoon:</p> </div> <div class="entry-more"> <p>A message on the Towercam site, which is operated by UCLA, explains: "The Mount Wilson webserver has gone down, most likely due to a backfire infiltration of a pull box containing telephone lines that bring us our T1 internet service." An <a href="http://www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php">update</a> today says the mountain is in good shape and the situation is stable. However, the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/amid-progress-concern-about-station-fires-southeastern-edge.html">reports</a> that the observatory may still be in danger. </p><p>Mt. Wilson is at the southern edge of what's known as the Station fire in Los Angeles County. The fire has grown to over 140,000 acres in size, according to <a href="http://www.fire.ca.gov/index.php">CAL FIRE</a>.</p></div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-48521466491360694932009-08-30T18:28:00.000-07:002009-08-30T18:30:17.913-07:00Sand is so Big<a target="_blank" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MjmpP3OokpM/SpqD5u-pi8I/AAAAAAAAEi8/KkgO6VZaKBM/s1600-h/article-1209726-063617DB000005DC-474_468x241.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MjmpP3OokpM/SpqD5u-pi8I/AAAAAAAAEi8/KkgO6VZaKBM/s400/article-1209726-063617DB000005DC-474_468x241.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fpictureyear.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">The Year in Pictures</a></span> </span><br /><br />This lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule. 'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said.<br /><br />The researchers focused on a single molecule of pentacene, which is commonly used in solar cells. The rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms. In the image above the hexagonal shapes of the five carbon rings are clear and even the positions of the hydrogen atoms around the carbon rings can be seen. To give some perspective, the space between the carbon rings is only 0.14 nanometers across, which is roughly one million times smaller than the diameter of a grain of sand.<br /><br />'If you think about how a doctor uses an X-ray to image bones and organs inside the human body, we are using the atomic force microscope to image the atomic structures that are the backbones of individual molecules,' said IBM researcher Gerhard Meyer.<br /><br />The team from IBM Research Zurich said the results could have a huge impact of the field of nanotechnology, which seeks to understand and control some of the smallest objects known to mankind.Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-34895156837051954712009-08-29T09:06:00.000-07:002009-08-29T09:12:16.584-07:00Future is Now<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LLtfdy_rn3o/SplTLWiq8MI/AAAAAAAAA4U/QSjQ8O-a6ec/s1600-h/videoad"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 299px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LLtfdy_rn3o/SplTLWiq8MI/AAAAAAAAA4U/QSjQ8O-a6ec/s400/videoad" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375419084738064578" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Video Killed the Photography Star, CBS is Putting Video Ads into Magazines</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">by <a href="http://dansaelinger.com/blog/">dansaelinger</a></span><br /><br /><br />Photographers playing with video has become the rage lately and maybe these guys really are onto something because video has officially is made its way into print. September 18th will mark the day a moving image officially entered the world of print as CBS and Pepsi have teamed up to place an advertisement in Entertainment Weekly featuring a relatively small digital screen that displays video. The screen has a 320×240 resolution, can hold up to 40 minutes of video, and has about an hour battery life. I figured it wouldn’t be until magazines figured out a way to put their content out digitally that video would start factoring in. Looks like advertisers didn’t want to wait any longer. I’m very interested to see where this goes. This is the opening of a rather large can of worms. More on this at WSJ. There is a rough image of the ad on page at <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10313064-93.html">CNET</a>.Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-67748544831298184972009-08-29T04:42:00.000-07:002009-08-29T05:11:29.540-07:00Tarrantino - Love Him or Hate ... He Has Talent<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LLtfdy_rn3o/Spkat1ahJII/AAAAAAAAA4M/zOaG1y0onOA/s1600-h/tarr.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LLtfdy_rn3o/Spkat1ahJII/AAAAAAAAA4M/zOaG1y0onOA/s400/tarr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375357004978136194" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://charlierose.http.internapcdn.net/charlierose/082109CRS.wmv">Charlie Rose Interview</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wz4K-Rxx2Bk&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wz4K-Rxx2Bk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-44786543267787113512009-08-27T17:20:00.001-07:002009-08-27T17:21:46.956-07:00Wired Mag - Photo Pet Peeves<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/rawfile/2009/08/flickr_wordle_680x.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 232px;" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/rawfile/2009/08/flickr_wordle_680x.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><h1>10 Photography Pet Peeves We’d Throw Down a Black Hole</h1> <div class="entryDescription"> <br /> </div> <p>After scientists created an “acoustic black hole” using Bose-Einstein condensates, our good friends over at Underwire pounded out a list of atrocious albums to throw into the sonic sucker.</p> <p>As photographers — who rely on light — we’re usually terrified of black holes. But we enjoyed Underwire’s black-hole list so much that we and everybody at Wired.com decided to get in on the action. Gadget Lab tossed annoying gear, Autopia banished bad cars, and Wired Science ousted hideous scientific clichés.</p> <p>Now it’s our turn. Here are our top photography pet peeves that we would like to throw into the abyss.</p>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-5436587593311952362009-08-25T09:50:00.000-07:002009-08-25T10:17:21.776-07:00From Different to "Disturbing Strokes"Original:<br /><br /><embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/2232191/diffrent_strokes_opening_theme_version_1.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" name="Metacafe_2232191" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br><font size = 1><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2232191/diffrent_strokes_opening_theme_version_1/">Diff'rent Strokes Opening Theme - Version 1</a> - <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">Watch today’s top amazing videos here</a></font><br /><br />Subversion by Monty Propps:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kr-e3qGQ884&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kr-e3qGQ884&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />A clip where the music originated:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s1FHTqdOCPA&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s1FHTqdOCPA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-56492094501666870812009-04-05T19:38:00.000-07:002009-04-06T23:46:29.571-07:00Sunday, April 5<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.squareamerica.com/images5/ls77.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 460px;" src="http://www.squareamerica.com/images5/ls77.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://theexposureproject.blogspot.com/2009/04/life-in-3-d_04.html">Life In 3-D</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ftheexposureproject.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">The Exposure Project</a></span> by </span><span class="entry-author-name"><span style="font-size:78%;">The Exposure Project</span><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Another great archive of vernacular photography from </span><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial;" href="http://www.squareamerica.com/">Square America</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, this time a collection of 3-D stereo slides.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> See more </span><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial;" href="http://www.squareamerica.com/bm1.htm">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SU6KkvFYElg&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SU6KkvFYElg&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><h2 style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;" class="entry-title"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2009/04/weekend-video.html">Weekend Video</a></h2><div class="entry-author"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" class="entry-source-title-parent" >from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fpictureyear.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">The Year in Pictures</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> by </span></span><span class="entry-author-name" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">The Year in Pictures</span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">In case you’ve been wondering what Sofia Coppola has been up to since she decamped to Paris, here’s one of her minor projects – a sweet and catchy commercial released in France last month for Miss Dior Chérie perfume.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The ad stars 21-year-old Maryna Linchuk and features Brigitte Bardot singing “Moi Je Joue”, the kind of novelty song that still gets on the charts in Europe but somehow never seems to make it stateside where whimsy is just not a quality in great demand.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/picture-2.jpeg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 410px;" src="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/picture-2.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial;" class="entry-title"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/04/02/discover-and-cultivate-talent/">Discover and Cultivate Talent</a></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Faphotoeditor.com%2Ffeed%2F?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">A Photo Editor</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">A Photo Editor</span></span></div><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The winners of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hearst8x10.com/">Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial</a> were recently announced (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.hearst8x10.com/">here</a>). I was struck by how novel it seemed for a company like Hearst who publishes magazines like; Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s BAZAAR, Marie Claire, O, Popular Mechanics and Town & Country to hold a contest that “is an international competition to identify and promote new and emerging photographers” where they think the winners are “rising stars who will play an important role in the future of magazines, media, the Web and the worlds of design and photography.”</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p><p face="arial"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/wp-content/uploads/picture-116.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 441px;" src="http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/wp-content/uploads/picture-116.png" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial;" class="entry-title"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/03/31/lifecom-launches/">Life.com Launches</a></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Faphotoeditor.com%2Ffeed%2F?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">A Photo Editor</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">A Photo Editor<br /><br /><br /></span></span><p face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;">The new <a target="_blank" href="http://life.com/">Life.com</a> just launched and it’s worth a visit to go peruse some great old photography. I think they’re planning on simply using it as a portal to sell Getty images, but it’s nice that they put a decent user interface on it and created edited material to check out.</span></p> <p face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;">This is from the press release:<br />“More than 7 million photos from the Life and Getty Images photo collections are now available to consumers in the largest online photography site. The curated site features both rarely seen and iconic photos from the 1850s through today. More than 3,000 new photos from Getty Images award-winning photographers will be added to the site daily.”</span></p><br /><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><object id="veohFlashPlayer" name="veohFlashPlayer" height="341" width="410"><param name="movie" value="http://www.veoh.com/static/swf/webplayer/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.4.2.4.1002&permalinkId=v149068262nmKrwHs&player=videodetailsembedded&videoAutoPlay=0&id=anonymous"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.veoh.com/static/swf/webplayer/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.4.2.4.1002&permalinkId=v149068262nmKrwHs&player=videodetailsembedded&videoAutoPlay=0&id=anonymous" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" id="veohFlashPlayerEmbed" name="veohFlashPlayerEmbed" height="341" width="410"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Watch <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v149068262nmKrwHs">The 50 Greatest Documentaries [Part 1]</a> in <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment">Entertainment</a> | View More <a href="http://www.veoh.com/">Free Videos Online at Veoh.com</a></span></span><br /></h2><h2 style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;">The 50 Greatest Documentaries</h2><span style="font-size:78%;">http://smashingtelly.com</span><br /><br />Based upon a poll of film makers, organized by Channel 4 in the UK, the 50 best documentaries of all time were chosen. Despite the unpromising screenshot image of Jimmy Saville at the beginning, this is great. Of course, I would differ with the selection, but that’s part of the game. <p><a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v14906847GBkd4MMb">Part 2</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v14906845KR3A8Gtp">Part 3</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v14906843Qp7gtZWB">Part 4</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v14906840WseFPkMj">Part 5</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v14906839gQb672WC">Part 6</a></p> <p>Total running time: approx 100mins.</p><br /><span class="entry-author-name"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /></div><div class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-author-name"><br /><br /></span></span></div><br /><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p></div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-8754536362877430332009-02-01T13:53:00.000-08:002009-03-22T14:41:23.179-07:00Sunday 2/1/09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_423991310_240452_mike-brodie.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 410px;" src="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_423991310_240452_mike-brodie.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/americansuburb/adc101.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 407px;" src="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/americansuburb/adc101.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><h2 style="font-family: arial;" class="entry-title"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Americansuburb/%7E3/3EPBonD3h1U/mike-brodie-roof-of-world-is-place-to.html"></a></h2><br /><a href="http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/01/mike-brodie-roof-of-world-is-place-to.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Mike Brodie - The roof of the world is the place to be...</span></span></a><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" ><br />from AMERICANSUBURB X by dR</span><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-author-name"></span></div><div class="entry-body" style="font-family:arial;"><div><div class="item-body"><div><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Take a wild ride rough steel bracin' your rollin' wandering eyes, bracin' your rollin' adventurin' thighs, runnin' wind and flowery air rushin' through your tingly beaming beautiful feeling face... free hearts, open skies, push your spirit out on a rise... to the roof of the world... ride, baby, ride. Run and don't stop, sleep when you roll, roll when you wake, green and yellow dreams, your body aches, dirt bath livin', creek side givin'... swimmin' escape filled livin', give up your back, jumpin' jack, across the canyon crack'.... rails and dreams, nothin' but sun, clouds and pillows, dirt bath and willows, the sun is guardin' your life, the sky is your wife... the land is your man, go baby go...</span></span><br /><br /><br /><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cameraobama.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cameraobama.png" alt="" border="0" /></a></h2><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5136176/the-youth-ball-welcomes-obama-with-a-sea-of-digital-cameras">Sea of Digital Cameras</a></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">from http://gizmodo.com/</span></h2><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><h2 face="arial" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" ></span></h2><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"This is definitely something I've noticed a lot of lately: people are more interested in taking photos of something they're witnessing than actually, you know, witnessing it.</span></span>"<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thegirlproject.org/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://www.thegirlproject.org/images/07undercovers2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://thegirlproject.org/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The Girl Project </span></span></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" ><br />from A Photo Editor<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The Girl Project explores the lives of American teenage girls by putting them behind the camera to document themselves. Using disposable cameras, girls 13-18 photograph their lives as only they know and understand it.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/bergman_obama_sm_print4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><h3></h3><a href="http://gallery.pictopia.com/davidbergman/photo/7565856/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Best. Inaugural. Photo. Ever?</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">It is 1,474 megapixels big. You can zoom in on lapel buttons for as far as the eye can see. Seriously: amazing! <a href="http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/">David Bergman</a> made it out of 220 separate photos.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /></span><br /></span></span><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is not sleeping.<br />President Bush is not sending a text message.<br />Yes, Oprah Winfrey is blocked by a camera tower.<br />We’re still looking for Waldo.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">or<br /></span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">If you have a PC, checkout this: </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/">The Moment</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">. This was on CNN and uses Microsoft's <a href="http://livelabs.com/photosynth/" rel="bookmark" title="CNN’s Inauguration Photosynth will blow your mind">Photosynth Technology</a></span></p><p face="arial"><br /></p><p face="arial"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chrismccaw.com/SUNBURN/Pages/gallery_of_selected_works%28sold%29_files/Media/SUNBURN%20GSP065/SUNBURN%20GSP065.jpg?disposition=download"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="http://www.chrismccaw.com/SUNBURN/Pages/gallery_of_selected_works%28sold%29_files/Media/SUNBURN%20GSP065/SUNBURN%20GSP065.jpg?disposition=download" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.chrismccaw.com/Chris_McCaws_Homepage.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">Chris McCaw</span></a><br /></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="line-height: 19.855px;" class="style_1">"In 2003 an all night exposure of the stars made during a camping trip was lost due to the effects of whiskey. Unable to wake up to close the shutter before sunrise, all the information of the night’s exposure was destroyed. The intense light of the rising sun was so focused and powerful that it physically changed the film, creating a new way for me to think about photography."</span></span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://caraphillips.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/cara_phillips.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 500px;" src="http://caraphillips.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/cara_phillips.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><a href="http://www.cara-phillips.com/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Cara Phillips</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">from <span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.heyhotshot.com</span></span><br /><p></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Jorg Colberg </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2008/02/a_conversation_with_cara_phill_1.html">interviewed her</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> for his blog </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/">Conscientious</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> a year ago in February, Darren Ching </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/11/my-ultraviolet-street-portrait-taken-by-cara-phillips-on-the-corner-of-ninth-ave-14th-st.html">interviewed her</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> for </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/index.jsp">PDNPulse</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> last November, and she maintains her blog </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://caraphillips.wordpress.com/">Ground Glass</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, and curates the site </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.wipnyc.org/">Women in Photography</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> with Amy Elkins.</span></span></div></div></div></div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-70184764563298678982009-03-22T08:25:00.000-07:002009-03-22T10:10:21.087-07:00Sunday 3/22/09<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/1674380391_4f758a03cf.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://pixfeed.blogspot.com/2009/03/classic-photographs-done-as-legos.html">Classic photographs done as LEGOs !</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent" style="font-size:78%;">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fpixfeed.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">PIX Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"> by </span><span class="entry-author-name" style="font-size:78%;">PIXFeed</span></div><div class="entry-body" style="font-family:arial;"><div><div class="item-body"><div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Flickr "Classics in Lego"</span><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/downtown/DowntownWeb%20Images/design/designs2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/downtown/DowntownWeb%20Images/design/designs2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2009/03/baseline-issues-for-how-to-get-gallery.html">Baseline Issues for the "How to Get a Gallery" Question</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent" style="font-size:78%;">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fedwardwinkleman.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">edward_ winkleman</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"> by </span><span class="entry-author-name" style="font-size:78%;">Edward_<br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Each time I discuss how artists can best go about getting a gallery, this issue comes up. In response to yesterday's post, <a target="_blank" href="http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2009/03/two-recessionary-shifts-in-attitude-one.html#c7892302408968317145">Zipthwung wrote</a>:</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><blockquote style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This whole discussion makes me want to vomit. Artists grovelling for shows? Where is their pride? Gallerists baiting artists into groveling for shows? The opportunity for abuse is obvious, and happens.</span></blockquote><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >There are two baseline points I'd like to make about this before I address the abuse issue. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >1. Not every artist needs or should even be affiliated with a commercial art gallery. The system works really well for some and not at all for others. Because many commercial art galleries are good at generating press for their artists and exist to place work in prominent collections, though, I think there is a somewhat misguided view among younger artists in particular about how essential getting into a gallery is for their careers. It can be, but there are plenty of artists with galleries (even very high-profile galleries) whose careers are no better off (in fact sometimes worse) than many artists without galleries that I know. The key is to find a gallery that's a good match for your art and aspirations, NOT to find any gallery at any cost to your pride or goals. If no gallery is well suited for you to work with, then find other means of pursuing your dreams.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >2. The notion that dealers (or anyone in the industry with power) expects or wants artists to grovel is a misinterpretation of the harsh realities that a) what they really want from artists is for them to make the most compelling, important artwork of their generation. They want artists to awe them, inspire them, teach them, and uplift them. Believe me. When it's well understood that an artist is doing that, the industry is all too happy to grovel at their feet. For the legions of artists not yet doing that, well, the other harsh reality is that b) you have a phenomenal amount of competition. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >The advice I offer, which directs artists to consider what they can do on an interpersonal level to get a leg up on their competition for the limited slots in the gallery system, is not at all meant to recommend "groveling." It is meant to suggest, though, that artists approach this with the same formal courtesies they would a job application/interview. If you were applying for a position on the faculty at an art school, I don't think calling up the dean who has never heard of you and insisting that she call you back when she has an opening would endear you to her.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >So to recap: Galleries are not the magic ticket to stardom and riches...they are but one option in the spectrum of venues by which artists can exhibit their work and hopefully advance their careers. If that venue seems a good match for your goals, though, the single easiest way to get a gallery is to make artwork so compelling that dealers beat a path to your door. Full stop. When that's not working out for you, though, don't take it personally that you're only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of artists approaching the dealer who said he wasn't looking at the moment. He's trying to make things happen for the artists he's already representing, trying to pay the bills, trying to get that review, trying to get that curator to stop by, and in this current climate just trying to survive himself....</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >About the potential for abuse. It's real of course. To help arm artists against it though, I'll refer back to baseline issue #1. A gallery is not Valhalla. It's not as if, to realize your dreams, you simply must do whatever it takes to get into one. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >At the positively packed Town Meeting at the </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a target="_blank" href="http://www.x-initiative.org/">X-Initiative</a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > last night (hat tip to Elizabeth Dee and Lindsay Pollock for providing that opportunity for the art world to air some of its anxieties about the current state of things), Superdealer Jeffrey Deitch mentioned the legendary Times Square Show and pointed to all the empty store fronts in Soho and encouraged the artists in the audience to produce exhibitions in them. He garnered the most enthusiastic applause of the evening. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">My point is there are other options out there, many of which are totally in the hands of artists themselves. No one needs to submit to abuse. When it's clearly uncomfortable to pursue the opportunity to work with a gallery, stop and look elsewhere.<br /></span><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/1984Colab.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 220px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/1984Colab.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></span><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:180%;">COLAB</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.avocetportfolio.com/about.html">http://www.avocetportfolio.com/about.html</a></span><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the winter of 1976-77, I was drawn into a feverish sequence of gatherings in artists’ lofts in downtown New York City. The focus was the structure of an organization that would support the creation and sharing of art, defining purpose and forms for group activity. The group included a mix of about 26 artists; painters, writers, photographers, filmmakers and many who wanted to make everything. </span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">It was a volatile and exciting mix. People had identified each other in schools, jobs, bars, the Whitney Program, Australia, and elsewhere. The earliest name of the group was the Green Corporation. The second name was Collaborative Projects, Inc. also known as COLAB, reflecting a shift in intention. Within two years, consensus replaced “executive decision.” COLAB was chaotic and fundamentally democratic. I found it highly compelling.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Projects included the “All Color News,” a cable TV show. There were exhibitions and stores in storefronts and lofts, international slow scan video, publications, and a pre-fax, pre-internet, communication transmission activity utilizing QWIP machines, procured from the Exxon Corporation by Liza Bear. Through a juicy and conflicted multi-year period of identity and structural definition, there was experimentation in and rich discussion of accessible content, political forces, technology, equity, corporate versus union models, and material resources.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">During 1978-80, Coleen Fitzgibbons, Tom Otterness, Ulli Rimkus and I were the COLAB officers. We raised money for the group from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and private sources. In June 1980, COLAB produced the wild and historic Times Square Show that included 250 artists. My archive of this period includes thorough and unique documentation including, photographs, Otterness’s hand drawn floor map, and meeting notes.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Making multiples was an important aspect of COLAB and they were sold in several versions of the A. More Store, named for Allan Moore. “Collaborative Projects” is now a generic term, midstream mainstream instead of the name of a provocative artists’ collective. Some of the artists have been famous and several have made valuable contributions as leaders and cultural activists.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The founding of Avocet with Jolie Stahl who had also been active in COLAB was my next foray into production and creative community building. We took great pleasure in group work, imagery linked to joy, the exploration of a new medium, and contributing to the development new non-toxic printmaking materials. </span></p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.histoiresdevoir.com/2009/01/18/the-blue-room-d%E2%80%99eugene-richards/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://www.histoiresdevoir.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/eugene-richards-11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://www.histoiresdevoir.com/2009/01/18/the-blue-room-d%E2%80%99eugene-richards/">Books and more books.</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent" style="font-size:78%;">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffractionmag.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Fraction Magazine</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"> by </span><span class="entry-author-name" style="font-size:78%;">Fraction Magazine</span></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The Blue Room </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Eugene Richards<br />Phaidon Press<br />168 pages / 78 color photographs<br />Hardcover $100.00<br /><br /><br /><br />This has got to be one of my favorite books (top 5) of last year and if it hadn't already been out for so long I would have given a thorough review on it.<br /><br />"Eugene Richards was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in English and journalism, he studied photography with Minor White at MIT. In 1968 he became a health care advocate in eastern Arkansas. Two years later, he helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, that reported on black political action and the Ku Klux Klan. After publication of his first two books, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta (1973) and Dorchester Days (self-published in 1978), Richards was invited to become a nominee at Magnum. He was a member until he departed in 1995, returned to the cooperative in 2002, and departed for a second time in 2005.<br /><br />Despite his success in other fields, Richards remains best known for his books and photo essays on cancer, drug addiction, poverty, emergency medicine, the mentally disabled, aging, and death in America. His intense vision and unswerving commitment have led him to become what many believe is America's greatest living social documentary photographer. This new body of work, entitled The Blue Room, is one of Richards' most personal works to date. It his is first-ever color project, and it brings together the overarching themes of all his work ''the transient nature of things'' in a beautiful and moving series of pictures of the landscape and abandoned houses of the American West, covering the states of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Arkansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and the Dakotas. This is the area where settlers came around the turn of the twentieth century, pursuing the promise of homesteads where they could build successful communities. However, in the wake of the Great Depression and the dust storms of the 1930s, the farms in this isolated, semi-arid region faltered and failed, leaving the land littered with forgotten homes.<br /><br />Richards' photographs are a statement on the vulnerability of man in the face of the shifting economic opportunities and the climate; a commentary on the inevability of change. In these contemplative pictures we are inspired to imagine the lives of the homes' former occupants. Richards enigmatic pictures make The Blue Room a thought-provoking meditation on memory; a quiet yet incredibly powerful body of work."<br /><br /></span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><img alt="copy_1_of_Horwitz-13.jpg" src="http://rachelhulin.com/blog/image/copy_1_of_Horwitz-13.jpg" class="mt-image-none" style="width: 400px; height: 400px;" /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://rachelhulin.com/blog/2008/10/desire-and-despair-with-marni-horwitz.html">Desire and Despair, with Marni Horwitz</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent" style="font-size:78%;">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Frachelhulin.com%2Fblog%2Fatom.xml" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">A Photography Blog.</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"> by </span><span class="entry-author-name" style="font-size:78%;">Rachel Hulin</span></div><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">I've had an Annie Lennox song in my head for two days.. the lyrics "desire, despair, desire, despair, so many monsters" are circling in my brain. And lest you think I'm about to throw myself off the Brooklyn Bridge, this is actually a good sign.<br /><br />What, what, you ask? Yep, it's because I can't get <a href="http://www.marnihorwitz.org/">Marni Horvitz</a>'s images off my mind, in particular her series <a href="http://www.marnihorwitz.org/portfolio/pictures/desire_despair"><i>Desire Despair: Pictures from the Czech Republic</i></a>.<br /><br />Horvitz isn't just good at naming her projects; the images fit the titles perfectly. These are washed-out, haunting, film-still worthy pictures. Take a look:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_-LIMHf5J84&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_-LIMHf5J84&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2009/03/weekend-video_21.html">Showstudio and Weekend Video</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent" style="font-size:78%;">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fpictureyear.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">The Year in Pictures</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"> by </span><span class="entry-author-name" style="font-size:78%;">The Year in Pictures</span></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Way back in 2000, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.showstudio.com/">SHOWstudio</a> was a pioneering presence in the world of online 'zines. I remember Craig McDean's 2001 short film of </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" class="description" >supermodel Karen Elson (former bassist with The Smashin Pumpkins) and Hole, Melissa Auf der Maur,</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> performing the song 'Devil's Plaything', shot at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, as an inspiration - showing what you could do with a hand-held camera, a good eye, cool friends, and access to some streaming video.<br /><br />Ten years later, <a href="http://www.showstudio.com/">SHOWstudio</a> are still at it. So just a simple appreciation.<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.americanyouthbook.com/c/americanyouthbook"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEczcrGMi58/ScEXzRx9cNI/AAAAAAAAAd0/LE4-cY-zni4/s1600/Picture%2B21.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://images.americanyouthbook.com/c/americanyouthbook">American Youth</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent" style="font-size:78%;">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fpixfeed.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">PIX Feed</a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"> by </span><span class="entry-author-name" style="font-size:78%;">PIXFeed</span></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">"American Youth" is a cross-section of today's 18-24 year olds done by <a href="http://www.reduxpictures.com/">Redux Pictures</a><br /><br />They set up a <a href="http://images.americanyouthbook.com/c/americanyouthbook">"American Youth"</a> website with a blog updated with out-takes and photographer's recollection. And they even <a href="http://twitter.com/americanyouth">twitter</a> ! (Okay, I'm over twitter already)<br /><br />Photographers with images in the book are: Marc Asnin, Ben Baker, Nina Berman, David Butow, Peter Frank Edwards, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Eros Hoagland, John Keatley, Andy Kropa, Erika Larsen, Gina LeVey, Joshua Lutz, Preston Mack, Kevin J. Miyazaki, Darcy Padilla, Mark Peterson, Michael Rubenstein, Greg Ruffing, Q. Sakamaki, Erin Siegal, Angie Smith, Ben Stechschulte, Brad Swonetz, Nathaniel Welch, and David Yellen.<br /><br />photographers over a course of a year. This book's theme reminds me of Greenfield's "Fast Forward" (1997) and Nathaniel Welch's "Spring Broke" (2004) so I'm curious to take a look when it comes out in May 2009. (Interesting enough, Steve Appleford wrote the preface to "Spring Broke" and "American Youth")</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />The 240-page “American Youth” book examines the newest generation of 18-24 year olds in detail, observing young couples and Mormon missionaries, debutante balls and drunken tailgate stupors, war widows and B-boys, street kids and lobstermen. How are they different, and how are they exactly the same as the generations that came before? On these pages are Christian rock fans, lesbian gangstas and Obama volunteers. There are would-be pop stars waiting for a shot on American Idol, organic farmers living the hippie dream and tattooed Cobra gang members brooding in the Window Rock jail, Navajo Reservation. Another series of photographs asks young New Yorkers to think big: If you had the chance, what question would you ask God?</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-27307073495571099172009-03-15T20:31:00.000-07:002009-03-15T21:30:17.774-07:00Sunday 3/15/09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00666/vanityportrait404_666135c.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 397px; height: 491px;" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00666/vanityportrait404_666135c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><h2 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://fractionmag.blogspot.com/2009/02/are-you-famous-artist-are-you-broke.html">Are you a famous artist? Are you broke? Well, we can help.</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffractionmag.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Fraction Magazine</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">david bram<br /><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;">In yesterdays New York Times, there is an article about a couple of businesses that are basically pawn brokers for Art World.<br /><br />They basically name names while at the same time saying they are confidential. One of the biggest names to use one of these brokers is <b class="highlighted0">Annie</b> Leibovitz, who borrowed over $15 million dollars, and gave up her negatives and "future work" as collateral. You are in deep when you have to give up "future work".<br /><br />It's worth a read. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/arts/design/24artloans.html?_r=2&hp">See it here</a>.</span><br /><br /><p><img style="width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://dsheaphoto.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/brian-500x393.jpg" alt="" title="brian" /></p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://dsheaphoto.net/blog/?p=438">B. Ulrich’s <b class="highlighted0">Dark</b> Stores, Ghostboxes and Dead Malls</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fdsheaphoto.net%2Fblog%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">digressions: a photo blog</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">dshea</span></span></div><div class="entry-body" style="font-family:arial;"><div><div class="item-body"><div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Buddy and fellow member of the PWFIPDTBETROITFOHTFT Club (<i>People Who Find Themselves Increasingly Pessimistic Despite Their Best Efforts to Remain Optimistic In The Face of Humanity’s Terrible Fucking Terribleness</i>), <a target="_blank" href="http://www.notifbutwhen.com/XWEB/index.html">Brian Ulrich</a>, has finally unleashed his new work to the public, <em><b class="highlighted0">Dark</b> Stores, Ghostboxes and Dead Malls</em> via a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1884100,00.html">Time.com slideshow.</a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1884100,00.html">Check it out.</a></span> Seriously! Relevant Work!<br /></p><p><br /></p><h2 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://wecanshoottoo.blogspot.com/2009/03/artspeak-statements.html">Artspeak / Statements</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwecanshoottoo.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">We can shoot too</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">J. Wesley Brown</span></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">An artist friend's advice to me on statements once was "Write it as if you were telling a good friend about the work for the first time"<br /><br />From an article by Dan Fox titled "Serious Business: What does it mean to be a professional artist" over at Frieze:<br /><br /><em>Working for a contemporary art magazine, I get sent a vast amount of press material each day, almost all of which employs a strikingly similar tone of voice. Most common is the one of academic solemnity infused with a barely veiled aggression, as though art were engaged in some cultural ‘war on terror’. Words such as ‘forcing’, ‘interrogating’ or ‘subverting’ occur with incredible frequency. Boundaries are ‘broken down’ and ‘preconceptions challenged’ so often as to make subversion and radicality seem like a mandatory daily chore rather than a blow to the status quo. They perpetuate old-fashioned notions, such as that of the artist visionary liberating the masses from mental enslavement by bourgeois values. Overuse has made these words sound strangely toothless, for what’s at stake in the art is often less important (but not necessarily without value) than the language suggests. </em><br /><br /><em>This may seem like nit-picking when global capital is collapsing around our ears. Sure, the follies of art-speak are easy to laugh at, but often criticism of it begins and ends with a dismissive chuckle – which ignores profounder problems. Why should academic terminology be the default vehicle for discussing art? Why is there such an emphasis on newness, schism and radicality? Even when the art itself may be enjoyably throwaway, language pins it to deathlessly auratic registers of exchange. This suggests a subliminal fear that, if the subject in question is not talked up as Big and Culturally Significant, then the point of fussing over it in the first place might be called into question, bringing the whole house of cards tumbling down.</em><br /><em></em><br />Read the whole piece <a target="_blank" href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/a_serious_business">here.</a><a target="_blank" title="Click me to see the sites." href="http://exposurecompensation.com/#"><strong><em></em></strong></a></span><br /><br /><h2 class="entry-title"><img style="width: 400px; height: 399px;" alt="FritzFabert.jpg" src="http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/archives/FritzFabert.jpg" /></h2><h2 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/03/fritz_fabert.html">Fritz Fabert</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style="font-size:78%;">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jmcolberg.com%2Fweblog%2Fatom.xml" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Conscientious</a></span><br /><br /></span> </div><div class="entry-body"><div><div class="item-body"><div><center><br /></center> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fritzfabert.de/index.html">Fritz Fabert</a>'s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fritzfabert.de/archaeologie/archaeologie01.html">Archäologie der Arbeit</a> [Archeology of Work] presents "relics" from closed down businesses and hospitals. It's such a simple idea, it works so well, and it's such a fine alternative to giving the world yet another series of abandoned buildings (seriously, we've had more than enough of those!).</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/featured-in-print/e3iaf5912c43b2213ee7fcb30aa6031d3bd"><img style="width: 400px; height: 406px;" src="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/pdn30cover.jpg" alt="pdn30cover" title="pdn30cover" /></a></p><br /><h2 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/03/04/pdn-30-photographers-to-watch-2009/">PDN 30 Photographers To Watch- 2009</a></span></h2><div class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Faphotoeditor.com%2Ffeed%2F" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">A Photo Editor</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">A Photo Editor</span></span></div><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/featured-in-print/e3iaf5912c43b2213ee7fcb30aa6031d3bd"><br /></a></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">PDN just published their annual list of 30 photographers to watch. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/featured-in-print/e3iaf5912c43b2213ee7fcb30aa6031d3bd">See it here</a> or go get a copy on the newsstand. This annual list has always been something worth checking out for photo editors looking for new talent and new approaches to old ideas. What makes this list great is there’s no entry fee. Someone with influence nominates you and then from the pool of nominees the editors pick 30. Some years the list is stronger than others but it really depends on the pool of people they are pulling from.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">The only gripe I have with this and all the other contests out there as far as this goes is with the way they present the work online. Photo editors have been using the internets for quite awhile now so why don’t they take the lists of photographers and present it in an easy to use format. Getting published in the magazine is all well and good but the real value is in the potential to land jobs from it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">I’ve decided to do it for them this one time so you can see how useful it might be. I added my own keyword descriptions just to help people quickly find what they’re looking for although I need to find a better way to parse the term “Fine Art” and documentary or photojournalism because those terms cover too much ground. I would add reference photos but I think PDN might not like that.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>New York</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kathrynparkeralmanas.com/">Kathryn Parker Almanas- Clinton, NY</a> [Fine art interior/still life]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lucasfoglia.com/">Lucas Foglia- New York, NY</a> [People in landscape with a fine art influence]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ballandalbanese.com/">Wendy Ball and Dara Albanese- Brooklyn, NY</a> [Traditional travel]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.martinefougeron.com/">Martine Fougeron New York, NY</a> [Fine art youth lifestyle]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://chiaragoia.com/">Chiara Goia Brooklyn, NY</a> [Color documentary with a fine art influence]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.florahanitijo.com/">Flora Hanitijo- Brooklyn, NY</a> [Dense color, fine art people and places]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.corneliahediger.com/">Cornelia Hediger- New York, NY</a> [Fine art self portrait interiors]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vhely-hutchinson.com/">Victoria Hely-Hutchinson- Brooklyn, NY</a> [Fine art color people and places]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jaredmoossy.com/">Jared Moossy- New York, NY</a> [B/W and color photojournalism]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jamespomerantz.com/">James Pomerantz- Brooklyn, NY</a> [Color documentary]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.visitcenter.org/programs.cfm?p=Review08Souto">Fernando Souto- Brooklyn, NY</a> [B/W Documentary]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lucaszarebinski.com/">Lucas Zarebinski- New York, NY</a> [Food and product still life]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>California</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chloeaftel.com/">Chloe Aftel- Los Angeles, CA</a> [Lifestyle with a snapshotty/polaroid aesthetic]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.colebarash.com/">Cole Barash- Oceanside, CA</a> [Snowboard sports and lifestyle (Caution: Music)]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.melissakaseman.com/">Melissa Kaseman- San Francisco, CA</a> [Fine art objects, people and places]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lisawiseman.com/">Lisa Wiseman- San Francisco, CA</a> [Fine art people]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Oregon</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.coreyfishes.com/">Corey Arnold Portland, OR</a> [Rich color documentary with a fine art appeal]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tonigreaves.com/">Toni Greaves- Portland, OR</a> [Color documentary with a fine art influence]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Argentina</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chaskielberg.com/">Alejandro Chaskielberg- Capital Federal, Argentina</a> [Fine art narrative with rich color and shallow depth of field]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.emmalivingston.com/">Emma Livingston- Buenos Aires, Argentina</a> [Fine art color landscape]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Australia</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.adamfergusonphoto.com/">Adam Ferguson- Newport, Australia</a> [Color photojournalism]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Germany</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.julian-faulhaber.com/">Julian Faulhaber- Dortmund, Germany</a> [Fine art graphic interior and exterior with patterns and everyday subjects]<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.susanne-ludwig.de/">Susanne Ludwig- Hamburg, Germany</a> [Fine art people and empty industrial interiors and objects in patterns]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Ohio</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nathanhargerphotography.com/">Nathan Harger- Cleveland, OH</a> [Graphic industrial fine art]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Washington DC</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jeffhutchens.com/">Jeff Hutchens, Washington, DC</a> [Color and B/W documentary with a modern aesthetic]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Pennnsylvania</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.justinmaxon.com/">Justin Maxon- Philadelphia, PA</a> [B/W and color photojournalism]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Egypt</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.dominicnahr.com/">Dominic Nahr- Cairo, Egypt</a> [Color photojournalism]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Japan</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kosuke.se/">Kosuke Okahara- Yokyo, Japan</a> [B/W documentary]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>China</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ryanpyle.com/">Ryan Pyle- Shanghai, China</a> [Color documentary]</span> </p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Singapore</b><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.darrensoh.com/">Darren Soh- Singapore, Singapore</a> [Traditional color industrial and modern natural landscape]</span> </p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p></p><span style="font-size:180%;">5 ways to Not Annoy a Gallery</span><br /> <span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><a href="http://www.artadvice.com/" target="_blank">Sylvia White Gallery</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">By Sylvia White<br /><br />To many artists, being an artist isn't "real" unless you have a gallery to exhibit your work. Although there are several other options available to artists in terms of showing and selling their work, it seems, for some, there is just no substitute for getting gallery representation. To this end, many artists are willing to bend over backwards, do insane things, make ridiculous claims, and, in short, embarrass themselves. The truth of matter is, not all artists are ready for galleries, nor are galleries, necessarily, the best choice for many artists. Especially in these hard economic times, the last thing on most gallerists minds, is acquiring new artists. Much of my time is spent helping artists develop a realistic set a goals, and then a game plan to achieve those goals. Nevertheless, there is always that rogue artist, wanting to strike out on their own, thinking this time it will be different. They muster up the courage to start approaching galleries before they are ready, and without regard to common sense gallery protocol. If you recognize yourself as that rogue, or you know another artist that is, please forward this article to them. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://1212gallery.typepad.com/1212gallery/2009/02/5-surefire-ways-to-annoy-a-gallery-.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">Read List Here</span></a><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div></div><br /></div></div></div></div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-77459643152419816802009-02-23T21:11:00.000-08:002009-02-27T14:43:29.240-08:00Sunday 2/22/09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/assets_c/2009/02/polaroid%20logo-thumb-500x98.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 67px;" src="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/assets_c/2009/02/polaroid%20logo-thumb-500x98.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Got 42 Million?</span></span><br /><br /><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notifbutwhen.com%2F2%2Fatom.xml" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">NOTIFBUTWHEN #2</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">Brian<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"Petters' Polaroid gets the OK to be put up for sale<br /><br />U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gregory Kishel has given go-ahead approval for the sale of Polaroid Group, one of the few assets of Petters Group Worldwide with tangible value, with bids to open at $42 million."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.startribune.com/business/39857292.html">By DAVID PHELPS, Star Tribune </a></span><br /><br /><br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.acegallery.net/evites/frame13.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="http://www.acegallery.net/evites/frame13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Tierney Gearon: Explosure</span></span><br /><br /><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lizkuball.com%2Fblog%2Fatom.xml" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Liz Kuball Photography | Blog</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">Liz<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />"I’m on a <a href="http://www.tierneygearon.com/">Tierney Gearon</a> kick lately, so I made sure to be at the opening of her solo show, Explosure, last night at <a href="http://www.acegallery.net/evites/gearon_invite.htm">ACE</a> Gallery in Beverly Hills. The photographs are double exposures, and everything is done within the camera, no retouching or external manipulation involved. I listened to Tierney explain her process—art comes out of accidents, she said."<br /><br /><br />It was simply the most amazing show I’ve ever seen—her work is beautiful and dreamy, and it made me want to move into the gallery and just surround myself with her photographs day and night. There’s no way the images online can even begin to show you what they’re like in person, so you owe it to yourself, if you’re anywhere near Los Angeles between now and April, to see it. And if you have no chance of getting here, you can buy a book of the images through the gallery (72 pages, 36 color illustrations, 12 x 9½ inches, $40)."<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-author-name"><span style="font-size:85%;">Also check out Gearon's <a href="http://www.themotherproject.com/trailer.mov"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mother Project</span></a></span></span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dawoudbey.net/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 500px;" src="http://twi-ny.com/classpictures.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.dawoudbey.net/">Dawoud Bey</a> and Carrie Mae Weems in Conversation<br /><br /></span> <div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aperture.org%2Fexposures%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Exposures</a></span> by </span><span class="entry-author-name"><span style="font-size:78%;">Aperture Foundation</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a target="_blank" href="http://vimeo.com/3286657">Dawoud Bey’s Interest in Photography and Portraiture</a> from <a target="_blank" href="http://vimeo.com/user611381">Aperture Foundation</a> on <a target="_blank" href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">In February 2008, <strong>Dawoud Bey</strong> and <strong>Carrie Mae Weems</strong> discussed the work from Bey’s acclaimed <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aperture.org/class-pictures.html">book</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aperture.org/travex/detail.php?id=42">exhibition</a>, <em><strong>Class Pictures</strong></em>, on view at the time at Aperture Gallery.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Class Pictures</em> features Bey’s striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum—and intensely attentive to their poses and gestures—he has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that challenges teenage stereotypes. After several stops including New York, Houston, Indianapolis, and Baltimore, this successful exhibition will open at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/details/bey.php">Milwaukee Museum of Art</a>, April 16, 2009.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">In this excerpt from the talk, Dawoud Bey explains how he decided to become a photographer, speaks about his first significant picture as well as his approach to portraiture through his Harlem series.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vimeo.com/3287587">Watch a longer cut of the talk here."</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vimeo.com/3287587"><br /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vimeo.com/3287587"><br /></a></span></p></div><style type="text/css">.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}</style><div class="cc_box" style="position: relative;"><a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/" target="_blank" style="display: inline; float: left; width: 60px; height: 31px;"><div class="cc_home" style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); border-width: 1px 0px 0px 1px; background: transparent url(http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-out.png) repeat scroll 0% 0%; float: left; width: 60px; height: 31px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></div></a><div style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); border-width: 1px 1px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; float: left; width: 299px; height: 31px; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); position: relative;"><div class="cc_show" style="overflow: hidden; position: relative; background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); padding-left: 3px; height: 14px; padding-top: 2px;"><a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/" target="_blank">The Colbert Report</a><span style="position: absolute; top: 2px; right: 3px;">Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c</span></div><div class="cc_title" style="padding: 1px 3px 3px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(134, 134, 134); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); line-height: 14px; height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/217341/february-02-2009/nailed--em---amtrak-photographer" target="_blank">Nailed 'Em - Amtrak Photographer</a></div></div><embed style="float: left; clear: left;" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:217341" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000" height="301" width="360"></embed><div class="cc_links" style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color rgb(207, 207, 207) rgb(207, 207, 207); border-width: 0px 1px 1px; float: left; clear: left; width: 358px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(185, 185, 185); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div style="width: 177px; float: left; padding-left: 3px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=216617">Colbert Report Full Episodes</a><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/">Funny Political News</a></div><div style="width: 177px; float: left;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/217926/february-04-2009/stephen-verbally-thrashes-steve-martin">Christian Bale Parody</a><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jokes.com/">Joke of the Day</a></div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><br /><h3 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="lg"><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="font-family:arial;">Images of "Shiny Trains" Make the $$$$$</span></span></h3><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" >from <a href="http://pixfeed.blogspot.com/">PIX </a>Feed by PIXFeed</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />"Remember that photographer who got <a href="http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/esearch/e3i81e87508e923955f84619b82090e19f2?pn=2">arrested</a> for photographing Amtrak trains for their photo contest ? The day after he popped up on Colbert Report, Duane Kerzic got a <a href="http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/esearch/e3i81e87508e923955f84619b82090e19f2?pn=2">five-figure settlement</a>. "</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aperture.org/exposures/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/valentine-with-her-daughters-amelie-and-inez.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 401px; height: 404px;" src="http://www.aperture.org/exposures/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/valentine-with-her-daughters-amelie-and-inez.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >*Warning* Graphic and Emotionally Disturbing Content</span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><em><strong>Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape</strong></em></span><br /><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><br /><br />from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aperture.org%2Fexposures%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Exposures</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">Aperture Foundation</span></span></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"During the 1994 genocide, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan women were subjected to massive sexual violence by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups, known as the Interhamwe. Among the most isolated survivors are women who have borne children as a result of those rapes. The number of children born from these atrocities is estimated around 20,000. Due to the stigma of rape and “having a child of the militia,” the women’s communities and few surviving relatives have largely shunned them. <a href="http://www.aperture.org/gallery/"><em><strong>Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape</strong></em></a> brings together <strong>Jonathan Torgovnik’s</strong> remarkable portraits of these women and children, and their harrowing first-hand testimonies.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The exhibition on view at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aperture.org/gallery/">Aperture Gallery</a> is comprised of thirty-one stunning individual portraits of these women with their children, accompanied by their testimonies—intensely personal accounts of what they have gone through, the daily challenges they continue to face, and their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a reminder of horrors endured. The testimonies are presented in text panels and multimedia interviews projected in the center of the installation, produced by MediaStorm. The exhibition also features a video interview with Torgovnik.</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Come see this powerful exhibition on view starting tomorrow, Friday, February 20, at <strong>Aperture Gallery</strong>.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a target="_blank" href="http://mediastorm.org/0024.htm">Click here to view a special multimedia feature from Intended Consequences. </a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Aperture’s accompanying book, <em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.aperture.org/ic.html">Intended Consequences</a> </em>will be published worldwide on April 7, 2009, coinciding with the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide and the opening of a satellite exhibition in the lobby of the United Nations."</span></p>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-31140021389774834742009-02-15T18:07:00.000-08:002009-02-15T20:18:25.677-08:00Sunday 2/15/09<div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flatlandgallery.com/index.php5?a=artists&id=21"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 484px;" src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e82/moving_cities/RobHornstra01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flatlandgallery.com/index.php5?a=artists&id=21"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span class="entry-source-title-parent">Rob Hornstra's Book 101 Billionaires</span></span></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;" class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Famysteinphoto.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Amy Stein | Photography | Blog</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">Amy Stein</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"Under Vladimir Putin’s rule, Russia has reclaimed its position among the superpowers of the world in the past eight years, the economic recession and the tumultuous nineties seemingly all but forgotten. Thanks to the country’s huge abundance of raw materials such oil and natural gas, the Russian economy is flourishing as never before. After a mere 18 years of capitalism, the January 2008 issue of Finans Magazine reported that there are currently 101 billionaires in Russia. It is difficult to detect much prosperity in the book “101 Billionaires”, which portrays an entirely different segment of the Russian population. Far away from the glitter and glamour of Moscow, the world’s most expensive city, we find the impoverished Russians, victims of the ‘tough-as-nails’ capitalism with which Russia made its name immediately after the fall of Communism. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><object style="font-family: arial;" height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kj15lvQhoSI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kj15lvQhoSI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Ladies, Tips on How to </span><span style="font-size:130%;">Avoid Recession Bandits</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;" class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fphoto-muse.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">muse-ings</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">tim atherton</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><object height="339" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4lv1b"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4lv1b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="339" width="420"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4lv1b"><br /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/03/women_are_heroes.html">Women Are Heroes</a></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;" class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lensculture.com%2Fwebloglc%2Fatom.xml?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">lens culture photography weblog</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">Jim<br />from </span><a href="http://worldup.org/blog/?cat=220" title="View all posts in www.worldup.org" rel="category">www.worldup.org</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">With nearly a decade of public exhibitions behind him, renowned undercover photographer JR this week launched his newest public exhibit in one of Africa’s largest and poorest slums, Kibera, Kenya. Famous for transforming his photos into posters and using them to make “open space galleries out of our streets,” JR’s latest exhibit is not only his most ambitious to date, but also has no set end-date scheduled.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Covering 2,000 square feet of rooftops and train cars with the eyes and faces of Kibera women, JR’s latest action is visible from space and can be seen on Google Earth. The posters were printed on waterproof material, so in addition to beautifying the rooftops they will also protect inhabitants from the brutal downpours expected in the upcoming rainy season.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The exhibit is part of a multi-action project called Women Are Heros, which aims to highlight the dignity, courage and noble struggle of women around the world.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">So far, Women has exhibited in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya and Belgium, and plans for installations in various other Western countries are underway. In the coming year, JR also plans to develop Women Are Heros in India, Cambodia and Laos. He is currently in Brazil putting together another action for the project.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Women is itself a part of a larger project, 28 Millimeters, which includes 2007’s <a href="http://www.face2faceproject.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.face2faceproject.com/');">Face 2 Face</a> and 2006’s <a href="http://28millimetres.com/index_en.html" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://28millimetres.com/index_en.html');">Portrait of a Generation</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M1eDzz5fKio&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M1eDzz5fKio&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Eggleston: Stranded in Canton</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" >from digressions: a photography blog by dshea</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Author: saareman from Toronto, Canada</span><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />"Stranded in Canton" had its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 14, 2005 in a paired screening with Michael Almereyda's new documentary "William Eggleston in the Real World". There may have been several other previous screenings but the only other one that I easily found on the internet was when it opened the 6th annual Memphis International Film Festival on April 21, 2005.<br /><br />Eggleston filmed about 30 hours of footage in the years 1973-74 and this has been recently edited down to 76 minutes for this final production which Eggleston said was now finished. Director Robert Gordon and film editor John Olivio assisted Eggleston with this final distillation and Eggleston himself provides an occasional commentary right in the film itself as shown. Perhaps the eventual DVD release will have a more complete commentary, but with the laconic Eggleston, this might very well be it. The little that Eggleston said was usually humorous and gave some comic relief.<br /><br />The film left me feeling nostalgic for various hell-raising drunken friends from my own youth because the vibe here was as if William Eggleston had traveled back in time to secretly film these people in the early seventies. Most of them seem quite oblivious to the camera and with the infra-red lens some of this may have been filmed almost in pitch darkness so people were even more likely to act uninhibited. The video technology itself was so new that many may not have even understood that a movie camera was in fact being used. Eggleston films various colorful family friends and sometimes strangers in bars and on the streets. One interesting historical note is the informal performance footage of Memphis based blues guitarist/musician Furry Lewis (1899-1981) performing at a private house party (Lewis is the musician name-checked in the Joni Mitchell song "Furry Sings The Blues" on the 1976 Hejira album).<br /><br />A word of warning for those with modern day PETA sympathies: one scene here captures the old-time carnival act of geeking chickens, although it is filmed at a night time street scene. In the days before such TV shows as Fear Factor, you could go to carnivals/circuses where a low-ranked performer would perform acts such as biting the heads of chickens or snakes or eating worms whole etc. for the entertainment of the paying crowds. The low-brow level of this "entertainment" caused the other carnies to disassociate themselves from the "geeks" or "geek men" which has gradually led to the word's modern day connotation of socially inept individuals."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/chicago/7-25-08empty3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/chicago/7-25-08empty3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><p face="arial" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2009/02/advice-for-artists-seeking-gallery.html">Advice for Artists Seeking Gallery Representation</a><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;" class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >Post covers</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" > 1. Selling solo vs. working with a gallery</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >2. Tailoring your resume for an art dealer</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >3. Studio visit strategies</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >4. Getting your foot in the door</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >5. Mistakes to avoid in finding the gallery right for you (the one-size-fits-all myth)</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >6. My very best advice for approaching a gallery</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >7. The logic behind the 50/50 split</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >8. Communicating with your dealer</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >9. Dealing with over-protective dealers</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><span style=";font-family:arial;" >10. Notes on ending a gallery-artist relationship</span></span><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><object style="font-family: arial;" height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V1Ztq1SjxnU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V1Ztq1SjxnU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://earth.esa.int/earthimages/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 646px;" src="http://rachelhulin.com/blog/5DustStorm_MER_RR_Orbit33126_20080701_log_or.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><br />Satellite Pictures and Earth Defying Foxes</span><br /><br /><div class="entry-author" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Frachelhulin.com%2Fblog%2Fatom.xml?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">A Photography Blog.</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">Rachel Hulin</span></span></div></span></div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-10307031807210395902009-02-08T19:32:00.000-08:002009-02-08T20:33:34.326-08:00Sunday 2/8/09<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://pixfeed.blogspot.com/2009/02/13-most-beautifulsongs-for-andy-warhols.html">"13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests"</a></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/40vsM3BOOEo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/40vsM3BOOEo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" ><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><br /><br />from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fpixfeed.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">PIX Feed</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">PIXFeed</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"As with most of Warhol’s work you can see how influential the screen tests have become. It would be hard to count how many music videos and ads have taken off from these. For more than four decades it’s been difficult to see the films, but next month, Plexifilm are releasing "13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests" a 60 minute film featuring 13 of the tests (including Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, and Dennis Hopper) along with a newly commissioned soundtrack by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips. The musicians were picked by The Warhol Museum’s curators, one would imagine for their Velvet Underground style cool, but it’s an inspired choice that creates a timeless continuum for the first authorized DVD of Warhol’s seminal short films."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2009/02/weekend-video.html">LINK</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/frank.parade.hoboken.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/frank.parade.hoboken.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/klein.man.looks.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/klein.man.looks.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/02/theory-indecisive-moment-frank-klein.html">THE INDECISIVE MOMENT: FRANK, KLEIN, AND ‘STREAM-OF-CONSIOUSNESS’ PHOTOGRAPHY</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">By Gerry Badger</span></span><br /><a href="http://www.americansuburbx.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">from American Suburb X Blog</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"In the United States during the mid-1950s, two photographers were each making the works that would eventually form two of the most renowned photobooks of the twentieth century – William Klein’s New York (1955) and Robert Frank’s Les Americains (1958). Both were expatriates of a kind, one returning for a brief period to his homeland after living in Europe, the other an immigrant to the United States from Switzerland. Though very different from each other, these two books introduced a new kind of attitude into photography. The work was rough, raw, and gestural. It was spontaneous and immediate, highly personal, echoing both the uncertain mood of the era and the characteristics that marked much of the art – especially the American art – of the 1950s.</span></span>"<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/00/torbjornrodland02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/00/torbjornrodland02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2009/02/08/to-be-determined/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">To Be Determined</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">By Shane Lavalette</span> <a href="http://www.shanelavalette.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">from http://www.shanelavalette.com</span></a></span><br /><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"There is an excellent group show currently up at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.andrewkreps.com/">Andrew Kreps</a> which deserves some attention. The exhibition, titled <i>To Be Determined</i>, is described by the press release as being “centered around a generation of artists whose work stretch the limits of photography. Portraiture and self-portraiture, archiving, and typology, as well as free-form fiction are at the core of their exploration of the medium.” It goes on,</span></p> <blockquote style="font-family:arial;"><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The selection of artists, some of whom would not consider themselves to be solely photographers, have interrogated the medium, and expanded its conventional definition. When looking at the group, one may question whether there is indeed a circumscribed, or unified practice of photography. But while utilizing strategies that diffuse its understanding, this group of artists can be unified by their focused engagement with their subject matter. </span></p></blockquote> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The artists on display include <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wallspacegallery.com/artists.html?id=2,6">Walead Beshty</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.corvi-mora.com/annecollier_window.php?6">Anne Collier</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Phil%20Collins">Phil Collins</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/Deschenes/registration6.htm">Liz Deschenes</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.andrewkreps.com/ethridge.html">Roe Ethridge</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.johannkoenig.de/41/annette_kelm/selected_works.html">Annette Kelm</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.andrewkreps.com/piller.html">Peter Piller</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reenaspaulings.com/JP.htm">Josephine Pryde</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.suttonlane.com/artist.php?a=eq">Eileen Quinlan</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rodland.net/">Torbjørn Rødland</a>. </span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">If you’re in New York, do yourself a favor and stop in to see this before it comes down. The show will be up through March 7th."</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HLCBOC3lR2k/SGlc_Ho77DI/AAAAAAAAAlk/MPYmObC58t0/s1600/Jessica%2BMartin%2Bself%2Bportrait%2Bportraiture%2Bgallery%2Bblog%2Bcollection%2Bautorretrato%2Bautoportrait%2Bselbstbildnis%2Bselfportrait%2Bpainting%2Bdrawing%2Bphotograph.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HLCBOC3lR2k/SGlc_Ho77DI/AAAAAAAAAlk/MPYmObC58t0/s1600/Jessica%2BMartin%2Bself%2Bportrait%2Bportraiture%2Bgallery%2Bblog%2Bcollection%2Bautorretrato%2Bautoportrait%2Bselbstbildnis%2Bselfportrait%2Bpainting%2Bdrawing%2Bphotograph.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://selfportraitgallery.blogspot.com/">A Collection of Self-Portraits</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://fugitivevision.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">from Fugitive Vision by Evan Mirapaul</span></a><br /><br />"I've just found a new blog I like called A Collection of Self Portraits. I've added it to my "Blogs I Like" section so you can click on it to find the site. I really enjoy these themed, photo based blogs I stumble on now and then. I may even convince myself to start one or two myself. All themes are not created equal, and I think this blog shows what a durable, malleable, and ever-fresh theme the self -portrait is. Take a look.....http://selfportraitgallery.blogspot.com/"</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.faheykleingallery.com/images/photographs/blackmon_j/blackmon_06.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.faheykleingallery.com/images/photographs/blackmon_j/blackmon_06.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p face="arial"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">What is Showing in LA You ASK</span></span></p><div class="entry-author"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fpixfeed.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">PIX Feed</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">PIXFeed</span></span></div><p face="arial"><span style="font-size:85%;">Holly Andres - Sparrow Lane (Till Feb 14, 2009) <a href="http://www.dnjgallery.net/current.html">LINK</a><br />Julie Blackmon - Domestic Vacations (Till March 7, 2009) <a href="http://www.faheykleingallery.com/featured_artists/blackmon/exh_domesticvacations/blackmon_e_dv_frames.htm">LINK</a><br />Jeremy Kidd - Fictional Realities (Till March 7. 2009) <a href="http://www.faheykleingallery.com/featured_artists/kidd/exh_fictionalrealities/kidd_e_fr_frames.htm">LINK</a><br />Joseph Rodríguez - Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City (Feb 14-March 15, 2009) <a href="http://www.drkrm.com/gallery.html">LINK</a><br />Todd Walker - A Legacy of Images (Till Feb 21,2009) <a href="http://www.stephencohengallery.com/">LINK</a><br />John Divola – Dark Star (Till Mar 7, 2009) <a href="http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Home.asp?gid=684&rta=http://www.artnet.com">LINK</a><br />Lucien Clergue – the Intimate Picasso (Till March 21, 2009) <a href="http://www.louissternfinearts.com/newsite/pages/exhibitions.html">LINK</a><br />Group f/64 (Till March 21, 2009) <a href="http://www.duncanmillergallery.com/">LINK</a><br />Kim Weston - Painted Photographs (Till April 10, 2009) <a href="http://www.duncanmillergallery.com/artists/Kim%20Weston.html">LINK</a><br />Carlos and Jason Sanchez (Feb 21 - April 18, 2009) <a href="http://www.dnjgallery.net/upcoming.html">LINK</a><br />David Fokos - New Work (March 14 - April 18, 2009) <a href="http://kopeikingallery.com/exhibitions/upcoming/">LINK</a><br />George Tice - American Photographer (Feb 21 - April 30, 2009) <a href="http://www.peterfetterman.com/htmls/exhibitions.cfm?exhibitionid=21">LINK</a><br />Erwan Frotin - Strangers (Mar 21 - May 30, 2009) <a href="http://www.mbfala.com/exhibitions/_45/">LINK</a><br />Balthasar Burkhard (Mar 10 - May 31, 2009) <a href="http://www.scaloguye.com/index2.html">LINK</a><br />Joseph Sterling - Age of Adolescence (June 6 - July 11, 2009) <a href="http://www.mbfala.com/exhibitions/_44/">LINK</a></span></p><p face="arial"><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p><p face="arial"><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://katherinewolkoff.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 401px; height: 315px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LLtfdy_rn3o/SY-v1FjjtBI/AAAAAAAAAzo/qvJbWnd6knQ/s320/Picture+3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300648612997608466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Wolkoff</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><br /></p><div class="entry-author"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bryangrafphotography.com/index.htm"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 509px;" src="http://www.bryangrafphotography.com/Images/wildflowers/04_photogram.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Bryan Graf</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">What are They Doing At Yale?</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent"><br />from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fninacorvallo.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault?hl=en" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">nina corvallo</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">nina<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://katherinewolkoff.com/">Katherine Wolcoff</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.bryangrafphotography.com/">Bryan Graf</a></span><br /></span></span></div><p style="font-family: arial;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.mbfala.com/exhibitions/_44/"><br /></a></span></p>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-40092826777984420782009-01-25T13:39:00.000-08:002009-01-25T15:48:43.036-08:00Sunday 1/25/09<a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/44_01_21/4405_17676915.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/44_01_21/4405_17676915.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Obama Inaugration </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />These <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html">images</a> truly reveal a new political tide arriving. Absolutely amazing and truly motivating.<br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><br /></span></span><h1 face="arial" style="font-weight: normal;" id="page-title" class="asset-name entry-title"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://rachelhulin.com/blog/malia_train.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://rachelhulin.com/blog/malia_train.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></h1><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Malia and the Purple Camera</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">from http://rachelhulin.com/blog/</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Is there a new <a href="http://rachelhulin.com/blog/2009/01/malia-and-the-purple-camera.html">photographer</a> in the White House?</span></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/best2004_oppor_shadow_02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 502px;" src="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/best2004_oppor_shadow_02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:130%;" >5 Year Anniversary:<br />The Mars Exploration Rover Mission</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >On January 4, 2004, the first of two Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the Martian surface. The goal of the rovers was to search for and analyze rocks and soils that yield clues to the planet's watery past.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/">Gallery</a></span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/01/theory-andreas-gursky-and-contemporary.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://www.wallpaper.com/content/feature/gursky/g-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Andreas Gursky and The Contemporary Sublime</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" >from http://www.americansuburbx.com/</span><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/01/theory-andreas-gursky-and-contemporary.html">Andreas Gursky and The Contemporary Sublime</a><br />Art Journal, Winter, 2002 by Alix Ohlin<br /><br />The German photographer Andreas Gursky takes pictures of enormous spaces--stock exchanges, skyscrapers, mountain peaks--in which crowds of people look tiny and relentless, making their presence felt in the world, like a minute, leisurely colony of ants. Also like ants, these people appear to spend little time examining their own encroachment--architectural, technological, and personal--on the natural world. In their determined, oblivious way, the people in his photographs make clear that there is no longer any nature uncharted by man. In place of nature we find the invasive landmarks of a global economy Taken as a whole, Gursky's work constitutes a map of the postmodern civilized world.<br /><br /><br /></span> <h2 face="arial" style="font-weight: normal;" class="entry-title"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://humbleartsfoundation.org/publications/images/100_0290.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://humbleartsfoundation.org/publications/images/100_0290.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></h2><h2 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial;" class="entry-title"></h2><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br />The Collector's Guide to Emerging Photography</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">from Liz Kuball Photography | Blog</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.humbleartsfoundation.org/">Humble Arts Foundation</a> called <i><a target="_blank" href="http://humbleartsfoundation.org/publications/index.html">The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography</a>.</i> The book features photographs from more than 165 emerging photographers*, plus each photographer’s contact information. It will be distributed to collectors, art dealers, gallery directors, photo editors, museum professionals, and independent curators.</span><br /><div class="entry-author" face="arial"><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_424874416_405288_holly-andres.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_424874416_405288_holly-andres.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Artist Highlight: Holly Andres at <a href="http://www.dnjgallery.net/">DNJ</a> in LA</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">With a suite of fifteen color photos in a show called "Sparrow Lane," <a href="http://www.hollyandres.com/">Holly Andres</a> has marked off a brilliantly chromatic bit of cinematic turf for fine art photography. In some respects, Andres's narrative images amplify the aesthetic concerns first delineated by Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin and Lauren Greenfield. Sherman's chameleonic self-enacted narrative deconstructed B-movie images of women and Greenfield's deceptively casual portraits of adolescent females critiqued a culture- wide consensus of sexual identity. In an atmospheric array of compelling photo images, Andres has combined both these conceptual issues and dramatically moved beyond them into a mysterious and starkly symbolic world. This realm seems to tap directly and powerfully into a collective, unconscious mind where archetypes loom and elide portentously through light and shadow. </span><br /><span class="entry-author-name"></span></div>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742552097088868335.post-70939085195492434262009-01-13T12:31:00.000-08:002009-01-15T11:09:45.467-08:00Sunday 1/18<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/byrne2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 453px; height: 300px;" src="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/byrne2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://thatsanegative.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/movie-day-thats-a-negative-courtesy-of-ubuweb">Ubu Film Festival</a></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <span style="font-size:78%;"><br />from That's a Negative<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tonkonow.com/images/tracey_baran/baran_blow_d.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 453px; height: 352px;" src="http://www.tonkonow.com/images/tracey_baran/baran_blow_d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.notifbutwhen.com/2/2008_11_01_notifbutwhen_archive.html#7159530527635118730">Tracey Baran Passing</a></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;">from NOTIFBUTWHEN #2 </span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/13/richard_misrach_beach_untitled_213_.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 453px; height: 356px;" src="http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/13/richard_misrach_beach_untitled_213_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2008/09/29/richard-misrach-talks-about-on-the-beach/">Richard Misrach Talks About “On the Beach”</a></span> <span style="font-size:78%;"><br />from http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/ - Shane Lavalette</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/fashion/08/02/19_sartorialist_lgl.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 375px;" src="http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/fashion/08/02/19_sartorialist_lgl.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2008/12/on-streetwinter-coats-with-great-design.html">On the Street....Winter Coats with Great Design Detail</a><a href="http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2008/12/on-streetwinter-coats-with-great-design.html"> </a></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:78%;" ><br />http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flickr.com/93/243211718_5422195bcc_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 453px; height: 313px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/93/243211718_5422195bcc_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://singularity.bohoe.com/662/martin-parrs-lecture"><span>Martin Parr Lecture</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">from http://www.bohoe.com</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.zonezero.com/EXPOSICIONES/fotografos/ghadirian/images/01.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 371px; height: 599px;" src="http://www.zonezero.com/EXPOSICIONES/fotografos/ghadirian/images/01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><h1 style="display: inline; font-size: 3em; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://chngyaohong.com/blog/photography/shadi-ghadirian/" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"></a></span></h1><a href="http://chngyaohong.com/blog/photography/shadi-ghadirian/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Shadi Ghadirian</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">from http://chngyaohong.com/blog/</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span>Paul Thulin-Jimenezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13711705662673657851noreply@blogger.com0