Livia Corona
1 Sep
Two Million Homes for Mexico and Enanitos Toreros, which is a portrait series on dwarf bullfighters, are both fascinating. What else can I say – take a look at the photos and statements for yourself.
Tag Archives: Critical Mass
Jeffrey Aaronson / Claire Beckett
30 Jul
Jeffrey Aaronson’s Borderland (larger photos at PhotoLucida) series is a really telling look at people and culture in the areas near the US-Mexican border. Claire Beckett’s photos of military trainings show ‘sets’ made to look like Iraqi structures and US civilians play roles dressed in Arabic clothing. The two projects complement each other somewhat in my mind.
Beth Edwards / Kelli Connell
29 Jul
Beth Edwards’ work looks really saturated and high contrast to me, but together they do create a somewhat dreamy atmosphere out of sometimes everyday moments.
I’ve been meaning to mention Kelli Connell’s photos ever since I saw the first volume of the Midwest Photographers Publication Project. There are plenty of cheesy or posey multiple portraits, but her work is really relaxed, and the ‘interactions’ are believable. It’s another set of work that works better as a whole than as single shots. I’d seen individual photos from her project in other blogs but they never really drew me til I saw a larger body of work in the MP3 monograph.
Antonio Turok / Michal Chelbin
28 Jul
Amanda Friedman / Larry Schwarm
27 Jul
I was looking through the work of photographers chosen for the last few Critical Masses and thought I’d post some of the pictures I liked this week in honor of this year’s deadline, which just passed yesterday night.
First up are the night landscapes of Amanda Friedman. I’ve always loved the way trees look at night under artificial lighting. It’s a sight that no one’s ever seen before the last hundred years or so. Then there’s Larry Schwarm‘s fire landscapes. (Warning: browser-resizing website and oversharpened photos – you may want to take a look on the Critical Mass site instead. Though his name is misspelled as “Chwarm.” No web luck for Larry.) There’s no info on the website, but I wonder if these are controlled burns. I think everyone has a little bit of an urge to see fires up close, but this is a much better option.
MEMORY
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What people really want: film vs digital, longform vs shortform
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches [...]
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Chris Jordan on fear, inspiration and living fully
If you haven’t seen this interview, block out an hour and a half to see it now. I transcribed (and lightly edited) a great deal of it, because it was great (not the least because Chase Jarvis references one of my favorite Errol Morris films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control). Originally I was just [...]
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Subsidizing art, subsidizing yourself
What is economic growth for, anyway? It’s for expanding our choices and making life better. Is it really so surprising that, as we grow wealthier as a society, more and more of our young people, when the amazing resources of the modern university are put at their disposal, choose to use them learning something satisfying [...]
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down with artspeak! (or, don’t let yourself go)
Arturo Soto There are probably more than 10,000 articles about how unwise and un-blog-attractive it is to apologize for not posting frequently enough to your blog. (“Don’t keep hamsters if you can’t remember to feed them”?) It is the blog version of saying, “I’ve really let myself go.” Supposing that I have, it seems that [...]
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the byline
This is what Hans Rosling says of global development in the documentary I linked to earlier. I want to dig a little deeper into this issue. I’d say that most of the photo world has done a fairly terrible job of making this point. All the images of development are somehow read as “look at [...]
