Category Archives: Tangents

Plagiarism in photography

By eyecurious | Published: 18 February 2010
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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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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‘Guerilla’ COP15 exhibition

By eyecurious | Published: 28 January 2010
On my way to the Barbara Crane conference at Les Douches, I walked past a favourite local wall for street art. Alongside an interesting portrait of Sarkozy and Carla, there was a series of photographs of protests during the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change. I love this kind of random encounter and the chance [...]
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Mount Fuji

By eyecurious | Published: 7 December 2009
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 [...]
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A slope with a view

By eyecurious | Published: 12 October 2009
There is a great story in yesterday’s New York Times on a small neighbourhood group in Tokyo, the  Society to Protect Nippori’s Fujimizaka, that are trying to preserve one of the capital’s last remaining views of Mount Fuji.  This is a classic David versus Goliath story, where a handful of OAPs from Nippori are struggling to [...]
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On lists

By eyecurious | Published: 1 September 2009
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. This [...]
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Robert McNamara (1916-2009)

By eyecurious | Published: 6 July 2009
Robert McNamara, one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century, has died aged 93. He is best known for having served as US Defence Secretary during the Vietnam War, but he has been at the top of the pyramid of power for close to 40 years in: the private sector (President of Ford [...]
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