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Category Archives: Existentialist photo-ramblings
Word of the Year 2009
Firstly, let me apologise for another post that looks back at 2009 given the avalanche that there has been over the past month. I took advantage of a few days of exile to the French countryside over the holidays to think about some of the trends that have emerged over the course of 2009. One [...]
Some more fuel on the photo-book fire
The debate about the future of photo-books is not exactly new, but it’s not dying down either. I’m not sure where this particular strand of the debate started, but in recent days Jörg posted a few provocative thoughts over at Conscientious, which are feeding into a “crowd-sourced” blog post that has been set up by [...]
Also posted in Photo-books Tagged Aperture, Benrido, Hatje Cantz, Kikuji Kawada, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nazraeli, Photo-books, Toluca Editions 11 Comments
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji appears to be popping everywhere at the moment: aside from the draw it still has for Japanese artists (Naoki Ishikawa, Ken Kitano, Masao Yamamoto) it also seems to be rippling more and more through the foreign art landscape. The renowned ukiyo-e artist, Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji inspired Jeff Wall’s A Sudden [...]
Also posted in Tangents Tagged Alain Bublex, Chris Steele-Perkins, Jeff Wall, Julian Opie, Ken Kitano, Masao Yamamoto, Mount Fuji, Naoki Ishikawa Leave a comment
Stormy weather over the US museum landscape
There is a very interesting debate going on at the moment in the US blogosphere and press over the New Museum‘s series of upcoming shows entitled the “Imaginary Museum.” The stir is caused by the fact that this series of exhibitions will be based around private collections, the first of which belongs to Dakis Joannou and will be [...]
Photography has died (again)
A couple of weeks ago I attended a talk at the American University of Paris given by Fred Ritchin, the author of After Photography, who has been thinking and writing about the future of photography in the digital age for longer than most people. The session was tantalisingly entitled Photography and human rights, but mercifully [...]
Also posted in Events, Photo-journalism Tagged Fred Ritchin, Photo-journalism, Photosketch 1 Comment
A picture of a woman
I don’t normally write about fashion photography on this blog, or go out of my way to see fashion images. E doesn’t really buy magazines so it’s not lying about the house either. But like any other person living in a big city, fashion photography is absolutely everywhere, something that we practically breathe in every [...]
On lists
I have recently come across a couple of ‘best ever’, ‘must-have’, ‘unmissable’ lists that have given me food for thought… quickly resulting in indigestion. The first of these is a list of the top 10 photo-journalists of all time and the second, a list of the 26 (nice random number) books every photographer should own. [...]
Also posted in Tangents 2 Comments
Abu Ghraib and Lynndie England
Lynndie England is (thankfully) no longer a hot topic, but I was reminded of her story by this week’s episode of the consistently excellent This American Life. For those of you that haven’t switched on a TV or read a blog (or one of those newspaper thingies) in the past year, England was one of [...]
Also posted in Photo-journalism Tagged Abu Ghraib, Lynndie England, Photo-journalism Leave a comment
Photo-journalism: leaving Nachtwey behind
The excellent dispatches magazine recently organized a debate at Brooklyn’s VII Gallery with Gary Knight, one of the magazine’s co-founders, and Tim Hetherington, a young photo-journalist (and ‘thinker’) who has made some interesting attempts to break out of the dark corner in which photo-journalism finds itself. The debate is available in its entirety on the [...]
Also posted in Events, Magazines, Photo-journalism Tagged Gary Knight, Photo-journalism, Tim Hetherington 3 Comments
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