“Looking Through the Lens” is a show that succeeds even as it fails. The exhibition, which closes Sunday, is the Baltimore Museum of Art’s first major, long-term photographic survey, covering roughly the first half of the twentieth century.
Any survey of this kind should be understood primarily as an educational tool. There’s no radical […]
This week the judging period for “Click!”–the crowd-curated exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum–closed. I evaluated roughly 250 of the almost 400 photographs online. It was really a mixed bag; every twenty photos or so, there was an image that really popped out from the rest. Whether we’ll end up seeing all those […]
A few weeks ago, I stopped by the Met to check out their “Photography On Photography” show. While it was fine, I was more impressed with another show that I stumbled into while I was there: Lee Friedlander’s Olmstead Park commissions. The Times review that appeared in January was mildly interesting (especially the […]
As of April 1st, the Brooklyn Museum’s experimental photography show, “Click!”, has been open to the judging public. Here’s how it works:
1.) Register with the museum’s website.
2.) Describe your approximate level of expertise.
3.) Begin judging!
The judging period ends on May 23rd, at which point I’ll share my thoughts on the pool as a whole. […]
The Brooklyn Museum’s submission period for photographs that demonstrate “The Changing Faces of Brooklyn” is now open.
This is a great opportunity for amateurs and professionals to submit photographs, not so much for exposure or professional gain, but to participate in a larger experiment about the nature of photographic taste and “expertise.” Think of it […]
In two weeks, the Brooklyn Museum will open submissions to a publicly curated show called “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition”. The museum will accept public photographs that go along with the exhibition theme, have the public vote for the best photographs, then the museum will mount an exhibit of them. The basic idea […]
Art Fag City posted some interesting extracts from a discussion on museum photography rules yesterday. Check them out here.
The annoyance of these rules to members of the press/legitimate bloggers is understandable. The discussion at AFC involves some interesting proposals that would allow serious members of the public to take pictures under special circumstances. […]
The KERA blog of North Texas notes that the Library of Congress recently opened a Flickr account (see it here), posting photographs from their collection. Says Alan Melson:
The Library of Congress has gotten very Web 2.0, and signed up for a Flickr account. Last week, they posted over 3,000 photos from their […]
