Image © Luciano Romano/Change Performing Arts, via NYT.
Happy fourth of July! After a week of vacation, I’m back to active duty. In the meantime, a few interesting things happened that are worth noting.
The end of the panorama? Olympus has announced a prototype for a 360 degree camera.
Regina Hackett and Chas Bowie have […]
I’ll be traveling for the next week. I might have enough access for sporadic updates, but until then, enjoy the blogroll and the following links.
More great coverage of PhotoEspaña–this time on landscape photographers–from WMMNA. I found at least two projects I didn’t know about–by Joachim Koester and Simon Starling–that look worth more time […]
Fandom is complex. It may begin as admiration–for talent, for style, for success–but the twists and turns it takes as it grows or extinguishes, and especially as it is nurtured into an obsession, have been largely uncharted waters for visual artists. There are signs that that’s changing. Ryan McGinley explored Morrissey fans […]
Image from “On the Beauty of Absence.”
Theorists have made a fuss for a while now about how the body is “inscribed” or made “legible” by society. Here’s the process in real-time: a new tool allows police to identify suspects based on tattoos, scars, and other visible bodily markers.
Square America is probably the most thoughtfully […]
The NYT has put together a nice little feature on Weegee for “Weekend Explorer,” including a video segment that shows some of the once-gritty neighborhoods where Weegee stalked his prey and even an interactive map of the locations of some of his most famous shots. Definitely recommended, if only for the anecdotes that give […]
For those who haven’t noticed, Cara Phillips and Amy Elkins have been up to more than their usual blog posts. They recently established a new website, Women in Photography, devoted to showcasing the work of contemporary female photographers. I mention it now because WIP pointed me to Julie Saul Gallery, where Sally Gall’s […]
Image © Harri Pälviranta.
The fastest flash ever created.
Regina Hackett looks at pigeons looking.
X-ray tour of a Greco-Egyptian mummy. (via C-Monster)
A show I wish I could see: “This Side of Paradise” at the Huntington Library in LA.
We Make Money Not Art’s top selections from PhotoEspaña, including Harri Pälviranta’s great documentary work on Finnish barfighting–which is […]
Still from the New York Times.
Tony Schwarz, creator of the masterful “Daisy Ad” that helped LBJ defeat Barry Goldwater and also changed the course of American political campaigning, died Saturday, the NYT reports.
The world of online photography criticism recently got a whole lot richer with the addition of a new online magazine, 1000 Words, and […]
If Carolina Nitsch Project Room isn’t the smallest storefront gallery in Chelsea, it must be in the top three. Maybe that’s what makes it so successful. Every time I go, it’s packed with an interesting show that is just big enough to contain something worthwhile but still small enough not to get on […]
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 […]
