Category Archives: On a lighter note

Carlo Van de Roer capturing the essence

By eyecurious | Published: 2 August 2010
One of the most worn clichés in the realm of photography is the notion that a photographic portrait can somehow “capture the essence” of its subject. This has always struck me as pretty problematic; the idea that there is a moment that can be captured on film that encapsulates some fundamental truth about us, about [...]
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Pot for potholes

By eyecurious | Published: 11 June 2010
One from the inbox: I received an email from husband and wife Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano with links to their pothole photography project. Sadly, I do not have a driver’s licence, and therefore am unable to fully relate to the urban curse of the pothole. However, I have recently started watching Treme, David “The [...]
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The 10 most expensive photographs ever sold

By eyecurious | Published: 31 May 2010
First, a quick apology for the slow pace of posts on eyecurious over the past few weeks. Post frequency will be returning to normal very soon. In the meantime, here is a little slice of photographic miscellanea that made my jaw drop. Below is a list of the 10 most expensive photographs of all time. [...]
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The photographers’ cookbook

By eyecurious | Published: 21 April 2010
I have just received a couple of emails from students at Falmouth University in the UK. Instead of the usual print auction to fundraise for their end of year show they have come up with something a little different: they are producing a cookbook with recipes by a pretty solid selection of contemporary photographers (Alec [...]
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Plastic, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways

By eyecurious | Published: 27 February 2010
Megumi Tomomitsu is fond of the plastic bag. She has even compiled a pretty exhaustive list of reasons why. For someone (and somehow I think I am not alone here) who stores hundreds of the things for absolutely no discernable reason, this interests me. Thinking about it, I probably own more plastic bags than photobooks, [...]
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Moment of sublime strangeness: Medvedev on photography

By eyecurious | Published: 12 February 2010
A little Friday fun for you: the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, on a 7-minute rant on the nature of photography. I love the way this is all delivered straight to camera, as if he really wants every last Russian to know his thoughts on the subject. Would love to know who wrote this speech for [...]
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Minutiae

By eyecurious | Published: 2 February 2010
After a period of overuse I barely give Flickr a glance any more. The proliferation of animated gif ‘awards’ for best-super-duper-gr8est-pic-ever that get handed out to anything that is posted and the intricate descriptions of what kind of strobe lights were used to take some of the world’s most boring images just makes me want [...]
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Agan Harahap

By eyecurious | Published: 24 October 2009
On a lighter note… Agan Harahap’s ongoing Super Hero project involves dropping super heros (Darth Vader also pops up quite a lot) into photographs of important historical moments of the twentieth century.
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Photocritic International: A. D. Coleman has a blog

By eyecurious | Published: 29 June 2009
A.D. Coleman, the NY Times’ first photo critic now has a blog. Seems like no one can resist switching over to the ‘dark side’ that is the blogosphere anymore. (via J. M. Colberg)
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