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 […]
Stanford computer scientists recently announced that they have invented an algorithm that digitally converts photographs into 3-D representations of their subjects. Furthermore, they seemed to be offering anyone and everyone on the world wide interweb the chance to toy with their new technology at a designated website, located here.
When I first checked […]
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, […]
Does anyone really want a close up? Martin Schoeller’s latest exhibition of new work at Hasted Hunt continues his quest to present the human face writ large. The first examples of this work premiered in his 2006 exhibition, “Close Up.” Schoeller’s images are shot with a large format camera placed extremely close […]
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 […]
Something in me didn’t want to warm to Bertien van Manen’s photographic exploration of post-Cold-War Russia at Yancey Richardson. I like photography with a strong conceptual backing. I distrust “street shooters” and their ilk (see my post on Alex Webb here), and documentary, as a genre, feels cluttered with photographers who depend on […]
The Australian ran this story today previewing a lecture at the University of Melbourne by renowned literary/art theorist Homi K. Bhabha. It consists almost entirely of Bhabha’s words describing his work and lecture. While I don’t agree with everything Bhabha says in the article (that art should be understood as another form of […]
