Image © Amy Arbus.
Page 291 celebrates its first birthday today. Thanks to everyone for reading! I’ve been a little bit M.I.A. recently, falling back on links instead of reviews, commentary, etc. That should change next week, although summer is obviously a lighter season and I’ll be moving slightly outside the city in the fall. Still, expect me to work more diligently to provide more substantial meat in the coming weeks.
- Return of the Medicis? The Vatican has decided to step up and embrace contemporary art–even going to so far as to attend the next Venice Biennale.
- A pop culture critic gets angry about cell phone pictures–and rightfully so. Camera phones are getting better, but their uses are still limited. They seem to prove that people are more interested in the act of taking pictures (as something to do and show around) than in what the pictures they take look like or how their aggregated behavior affects everyone around them. (via AFC)
- A newspaper’s take on the history of newspaper photography. It reads sort of like a middle school essay on the history of photojournalism, probably because a newspaper isn’t the proper place to examine the subject. Interesting takeaway: early newspaper photographs sometimes ran months after the events they depicted.
- Here’s a show I wish I could see: “Live By the Lens, Die By the Lens” at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK.
Image © Amy Arbus.
