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 […]
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 […]
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 © Jonathan Haeber.
Optical illusions, or perceptual illusions? According to the NYT, many of these tricks are due to our brain’s need to predict the future in order to process the present. Deep. (Story here and here.)
Courtroom sketches from the 9/11 co-conspirator trials in Guantánamo.
Snowdon is an example of the type of […]
“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 […]
Image © Rafal Milach.
Great photo selections from FotoGrafia and World Press Photo 2008 over at We Make Money Not Art.
How to make three-dimensional animals from print advertising. Or virtual three-dimensional animals, anyway.
Paul Fusco describes the happy accident that became RFK Funeral Train.
Tattoos and the NBA: “At one time, people got tattoos to be different, […]
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 […]
