I am–or was–not a big fan of Ryan McGinley. When I saw that he’d been interviewed in this month’s issue of The Believer, I was apprehensive because (1.) The Believer has disappointed me with its photo coverage before (last year’s piece on Ralph Eugene Meatyard turned out to be a waste of time) and […]
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 […]
Here’s a riddle: what do you call a blog dedicated to discussing photography? Hint: it’s not “photoblog.” According to most sources, including Wikipedia, the Photobloggies Awards and the Open Directory project (DMOZ), the definition of photoblog is a blog that uses photography as its primary medium, in addition to or in place of […]
Cara Phillips has picked up on Christian Patterson’s recent post that announced, essentially, that he is quitting blogging for the indeterminate future. Unlike Cara, I don’t see that much elitism in Patterson’s decision, or, if I do, I more or less agree with it. There ARE a lot of people writing very similar […]
Thailand’s government is familiar with the way cameras cause tourists to momentarily forget respect to get a funny picture–here as the head of a headless buddha. We’re all guilty of this sort of thing.
I wonder: would this particular idea naturally occur to people, or is it a product of all those painted […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
Just finished reading the essay “Commerce and Consciousness” by Ben Davis at the invaluable artnet. The piece is an extended reflection on the tangled relationship between capitalism and visual culture, prompted at least in part by Johanna Drucker’s 2005 book on the subject entitled Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity. I’ve never read […]
