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Category Archives: Tangents
Happy Chinese New Year
It’s Chinese New Year today and this will be the year of the rabbit. I can’t think of a better photograph to usher in this new year than this gem by Hiroh Kikai. 新年快乐!!!
Aaron Schuman’s Sunday brunch, mushrooms included
After having met Aaron Schuman at Fotofest Paris last November I just stumbled across his latest project Jason is a Funghi (pronounced ‘fun guy’) in which he as turned one Sunday morning of conversation with Jason Fulford into a delightful series of stream of consciousness musings on eggs, signs, comic books, childhood, blood oranges (which [...]
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 Existentialist photo-ramblings, Photo-journalism Tagged Aya Takada, digital, Hipstamatic, iPhoneograpahy, Photo-journalism, prints, smart phones 10 Comments
Rewriting history
A few months ago, courtesy of Bryan, I stumbled on a link to this archive of colour photographs taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information from Depression-era America (apparently it’s a fairly well-known internet resource). I remember seeing a few people’s reaction to these images on Facebook including one commenter who was [...]
Review: 10 years of in-public
Street photography is a strangely controversial photographic genre. When I started blogging, I was a little surprised at how divisive it seemed to be within the photo community and its ability to get people worked up, whether they were in the ‘for’ or ‘against’ camp. As with many other photographic genres ‘street photography’ is a [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, Contemporary art, European photography, Photo-books Tagged Blake Andrews, Jeffrey Ladd, Nick Turpin, street photography 3 Comments
The photographic tinkerers
E and I recently won tickets to a concert by a Congolese band that I had never heard of, Staff Benda Bilili (‘benda bilili’ means beyond appearances). Apart from the incredible energy that these guys managed to generate despite 80% of the band being paraplegic and all of them living (or having lived) in the [...]
Also posted in Asian photography, European photography, Japanese photography Tagged camera, equipment, Miroslav Tichy, Ryuji Miyamoto, self-made 6 Comments
The photographers’ cookbook
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 [...]
Also posted in On a lighter note, Photo-books, Projects Tagged Alec Soth, cookbook, Elina Brotherus, Martin Parr, Richard Misrach Leave a comment
Photobook swap
I have decided to attempt a photobook swap over on eyecurious books etc. I have a few books (mainly Japanese photobooks) in duplicate and I feel that it’s only fair to find them a new home. I’ve already posted a few of the books that I have available for exchange and there will be more [...]
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 [...]
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