Monday, September 6, 2010
From Emily Shur: Last week I photographed filmmaker Davis Guggenheim and had a really nice talk with him during the shoot. One thing that stood out to me was his acknowledgement of learning the most during the really, really low points in his career. I agreed with him wholeheartedly. As unpleasant as the bad times [...]
A couple of months ago I peeked in on the public demo portion of a Tech x Journalism iPad app developing workshop given by Hacks/Hackers. While most of the apps were useful in a way that didn’t really push the envelope that much, one that wasn’t so realized stuck with me the most. It’s called [...]
William Eggleston If you want to see the Peaches photo, go to Pier 24 immediately! (The American contemporary room is a color lover’s paradise! Soth’s green chair photo that I’d blogged earlier was there!) Although, they said that the next show, which includes some of the Fischer collection to contribute to SFMOMA’s introduction show, will [...]
Click through these two presentations and you get a pretty good sense of the web today. First, the first five slides of this article on the weak spots of tech giants pretty much sum up the tech world today in a few sentences. As for the first assertion that Google doesn’t get social networking, I’d [...]
Samuel Zuder I saw this image by Samuel Zuder and thought I’d like to try photographing portraits with the subject in the space between two cars at some point too. No doubt I’d come up with a recognizably “similar” photograph, but ideally, I’d hope to go beyond the concept and inject my own photo with [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
I’ve thought about the inherent differences between media (still, video, music) but not really about distribution or creation, which I’d like to look at today. Hiroshi Sugimoto An interesting difference is that in music and film, nobody tries to purchase the original. Everybody’s experience of the work is pretty much equal because no band or [...]
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
I just have to say that the antagonism shown toward James Nachtwey for his posting in search of an unpaid intern is just ridiculous. The main jibe thrown at him is that for some who works to bring exploitation and conflict to light in hopes of bringing about change, not paying an intern while requiring [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
Michael Sebastian Saw Michael Sebastian’s work recently on Lenscratch. Constructed Landscapes is a series on that now familiar theme, the manmade suburban/freeway landscape. The wider shots are suburban scenes that we have seen time and again, but when he gets up close to little details, his sense of color is great. He says in his [...]
Colin and Joerg both commented on smiling or the lack thereof in portraiture, and I had a thought – can it be that our tendency to smile so much is influenced by exposure to the point of saturation to advertising? Aside from the usual moody blankness of high fashion, everyone in ads is smiling, having [...]
I can’t believe I just spent a night writing this instead of scanning while watching Big Love (awesome show), but I’ll take some solace in the fact that I got Joerg to put the word “chipmunk” in a subject title. First off, let’s clarify a bit. Don’t read too much into the chipmunks! I was [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Chris McVeigh The discovery of Vivian Maier seems to have brought up this idea of the artist who works in obscurity, undiscovered not because of a lack of talent. The internet makes these discoveries easier, it’s true, but I wonder if the long tail of the internet doesn’t also make it easier for non-career artists [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
It could be said – it doubtless has been said – that such pictures often bear a clear resemblance to the Kodachrome slides of the ubiquitous amateur next door. It seems to me that this is true, in the same sense that the belles-lettres of a time generally relate in the texture, reference, and rhythm [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Markus Klinko + Indrani There’s a lot of photography on consumerism, but it wasn’t til today, when I saw a little deconstructing-the-shot piece in the American Photo magazine blog, that I became convinced that all of it is pure snake oil, shit sold as gold. Apparently the idea was to “visualize a post-apocalyptic world where [...]
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
One thing that does worry me about this need to be uber professional – I wonder if it has an effect on our attitudes about work and the creative process. Ken Robinson’s TED talk about schools and creativity comes to mind. There is quite a bit of a punishment or disincentive to being “wrong,” which [...]
Mike Sinclair Mike Sinclair has been posting new photos from the Missouri State Fair on his blog. Last Thursday Andrew Hetherington of What’s the Jackonary spoke at the Apple Store in SF. He showed a slideshow of his work – from his early fashion and ad photos to the personal projects (A Room With a [...]
