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Category Archives: Existentialist photo-ramblings
On introspection, navel-gazing and nitpicking
Colin Pantall has written an interesting post on his blog regarding the many year-end ‘best photobooks of 2011′ lists that have been published of late. In the post he raises questions about this process, the role of “tastemakers” in today’s photobook market and discusses the need for the expansion of the photobook market. I started [...]
Also posted in Photo-books 16 Comments
The Wonder of it All
As a blogger I get sent several press releases a day for upcoming exhibitions, from the weird to the wonderful and everything in between. Although 95% of it doesn’t hold my interest, once in a while something stands out. The press release for the upcoming exhibition at Gallery 138 in New York of photographs and [...]
Also posted in American photography, Exhibition reviews, Tangents Leave a comment
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Just as Google launches, Google+, it’s latest attempt at a social network and an attempt to lure people away from Facebook, I thought I would share a piece that I have written for the latest issue of European Photography (which comes out today) that deals with the impact of blogs and social networks on the [...]
Also posted in European photography Tagged Charlotte Cotton, Facebook, Foam, Mrs Deane, online, Prison Photography, social networks, Twitter 9 Comments
A Hipstamatic plea
Although it appears that not a week goes by without a story of another film stock or photo paper being discontinued, analog photography is undergoing something of a revival at the moment… online… and more specifically on screen, courtesy of the Hipstamatic application. As far as I understand it the point of Hipstamatic is to try [...]
Also posted in Photo-journalism, Tangents Tagged Aya Takada, digital, Hipstamatic, iPhoneograpahy, Photo-journalism, prints, smart phones 11 Comments
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, European photography, Events, 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
Is the photo-album giving way to the mixtape?
I recently attended a ‘conversation’ at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris on the impact of blogs on photographic criticism. A hugely disappointing evening on all counts, including an extended discussion of image rights and how many photos it’s ok to include in a single blogpost, however one idea did emerge which piqued my interest. [...]
Also posted in Magazines Tagged American Suburb X, André Gunthert, Craig Hickman, Culture Visuelle, Facebook, Fondation HCB 5 Comments
A dirty word?
As a lot of readers out there will be aware, a recent essay by Paul Graham, The Unreasonable Apple, has been making some waves (ripples?) in the photography/art world, and of course in our beloved blogosphere. I apologize for wading in on this discussion so very late, but it seems to me that there are [...]
Also posted in Art Fairs / Festivals, Contemporary art, Tangents Tagged Centre Pompidou, Cindy Sherman, James Casebere, Jeff Wall, Paul Graham, Straight photography, Tate Modern, Thomas Demand 5 Comments
The art of the caption
Choosing words to go with photographs is a big issue for us photobloggers. Some of us avoid them, others use them with caution, and some, like me, can’t seem to hold them back. Choosing the right balance between words and images is a very tricky thing and this tightrope walk often makes me think about [...]
Also posted in Japanese photography, Photo-journalism Tagged captions, Duane Michals, Errol Morris, hipster, Hiroh Kikai, Ken Domon, Kikuji Kawada, Shomei Tomatsu, titles, Tomoko Yoneda 2 Comments
Plagiarism in photography
There is a bit of a fuss going on at Conscientious and PDN over photographs that look very similar. I am less interested in debating how similar two images are and whether we can consider there to be plagiarism (although if you have a few hundred hours to waste, I imagine that you could devote [...]
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