There’s good piece on Michel Gondry in today’s Telegraph.
I wasn’t aware that Gondry invented the “bullet camera” effect popularized by the Matrix series, in which the cinematographer makes it look like a subject is frozen and the camera is panning around it. It’s achieved by splicing together frames taken at the same […]
The New Scientist reports that computers may be better at recognizing faces as visual averages–the sum of a number of images of a person, from a number of different perspectives in different lighting–rather than in a single passport or ID photo. Scientists at the University of Glasgow tested an advanced facial recognition program, FaceVACS, […]
291 stupidly missed the Jeff Wall retrospective when it passed through MoMA last year. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw that, as a part of my holiday travels to London, I’d have the chance to see both Jeff Wall and White Cube, Mason’s Yard at the same time–Wall’s show at White […]
Last night 291 stopped by Aperture to see old friends and catch the talk and book signing by Hans Eijkelboom.
Eijkelboom is an amazing and ridiculously underappreciated Dutch conceptual photographer. Aperture just published a book of his work entitled Paris|New York|Shanghai, which represents a selection from a larger body of work called “Photo Notes.” […]
Squeezed for time, I barely had 5 minutes to spend at Antony Gormley’s recent opening at Sean Kelly before I had to catch a train downtown. But they were some of the most memorable 5 minutes I can–well, remember.
The guy who really turned me on to Gormley is W.J.T. Mitchell, easily my favorite contemporary […]
