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Category Archives: European photography
Postcards from Google Earth
Google just won’t stop popping up in the art world these days. After the much-hyped and thus far disappointing Google Art Project and several interesting photographic projects using Google Street View technology, the French artist Clement Valla has used Google Earth to create his Bridges series. The series began when Valla, who has worked as [...]
Also posted in Contemporary art Tagged 3D, bridges, Clement Valla, Google Earth, Landscape 3 Comments
Interview: Christian Schink, A different kind of discovery
Hans-Christian Schink‘s latest series 1h is a real departure from the formal precision of much of his previous work and a delightful return to the essence of photography. The series has just been released in book form by Hatje Cantz (this one cannot have been easy to print!). Some of the works from 1h are [...]
Also posted in Interviews, Magazines Tagged Fantom, Hans-Christian Schink, Landscape, solarization, sun 4 Comments
Christophe Maout’s city of light
Paris earned the nickname of ‘ville lumière‘ (City of Light) from having been an ideological home to the age of enlightenment and for it’s famous street lights. Like these lights, the 19th century Haussmanian architecture of the city has come to typify the French capital in most outsiders’ imagining of the city. So Christophe Maout‘s vision [...]
Review: Adriaan van der Ploeg, Mont Purgatoire
After Mariken Wessels‘ two mysterious tomes (one of which was reviewed here) which seemed to make most ‘best of 2010′ photobook lists, our Dutch friends have done it again and produced a book which really should not exist. I couldn’t help but try to imagine this book idea being pitched to any halfway-sane book publisher, [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, One to watch, Photo-books Tagged Adriaan van der Ploeg, cycling, Holland, Mariken Wessels, Netherlands, portraits Leave a comment
Notes on 2010
As the year draws to an end and more top-10 lists (and non-lists) than you can wave a stick at make their annual appearance, I thought I would take a broader look back at the past year in photography. This time last year I focused on the chronic over-use of the word curating, a trend [...]
Also posted in American photography, Awards, Contemporary art, Events, Existentialist photo-ramblings, Magazines, Photo-books Tagged Alec Soth, Arles, Doug Rickard, Erik van der Weijde, Errata Editions, Facebook, Foam magazine, Fotofest, Google, Google Street View, Harvey Benge, independent, John Gossage, Jon Rafman, Larry Clark, LE BAL, Leo Rubinfien, Little Brown Mushroom, Mao Ishikawa, Michael Wolf, Only Photography, publishing, retrospective, self-publishing, street photography, Takuma Nakahira, White Press, Yutaka Takanashi 2 Comments
Review: Mariken Wessels, Queen Ann. P.S. Belly Cut Off
From the moment you hear its title, it becomes clear that Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off is not going to be an ‘easy’ photobook. By ‘easy’ I mean a book that gives itself to you on first viewing, immediately hitting all the right buttons. To use one of my favoured musical analogies, in the [...]
Interview: Joan Fontcuberta, Landscapes without memory
I first came across Joan Fontcuberta‘s Orogenesis series when I picked up a copy of the Landscapes without memory book in Arles last year. The series is deceptive; these aren’t photographs but computer-generated images created by software renderers that are designed to produce 3D images based on cartographical data. Fontcuberta decided to explore the possibilities of [...]
Paris November photo madness round-up
As the eyecurious faithful (and anyone who has been in Paris recently) will have noted, this has been a particularly action-packed month for photography in Paris. As I noted in a previous post, there was a bunch of different events going on at once and, as November draws to a close, I thought I would [...]
Also posted in American photography, Art Fairs / Festivals, Asian photography, Collecting, Events, Photo-books Tagged André Kertész, art fairs, artbeat publishers, Blake Andrews, Brassaï, Christer Strömholm, collecting, G/P Gallery, Jessica Backhaus, Mao Ishikawa, Massimo Vitali, Maurizio Anzeri, Michael Wolf, Naoya Hatakeyama, Off Print, Paris Photo, Peter Bialobrzeski, Photo-blog, Robert Morat, Serge Plantureux 1 Comment
Book of the Week #4: Michael Wolf, Tokyo Compression
Michael Wolf has just released two new books, Asoue and Tokyo Compression, and I have to admit to having a personal favourite. Tokyo Compression brings together a series of images taken in the Tokyo metro during rush hour. Through a series of portraits of trapped commuters, compressed into jam-packed metal carriages, the book brings to [...]
Also posted in Book of the Week, Photo-books Tagged metro, Michael Wolf, portraits, subway, Tokyo, Werner Herzog 13 Comments
Review: Inger Lise Rasmussen, Brilliant City