The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
At a time when museums, galleries, and collectors’ homes are full of massive color prints by Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Thomas Ruff, the idea that color photographs were once not just unfashionable but unsalable seems impossibly quaint. “When Color Was New,” a smart, compact show at the Julie Saul . . .
Art MoCo (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
This recent monograph is the most complete survey of photographer Stephen Shore’s work, from the early days at Warhol's Factory to a variety of new techniques. Portraits of the banal and the landscapes of modern living make up Shore’s...
Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
I’ve been thinking about putting together a self published night photography book to use as a portfolio and to sell in conjunction with a print offer. One important question that I’ve struggled with is how many images are ideal for a fine art photography book? 20 to 30 prints seems right for a portfolio, and [...]
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Alice Waugh, Commissioning Editor of The Drawbridge, London, wrote recently to give us the heads up that their publication will be jumping the pond to make its way to the U.S. later this year. She writes: "The Drawbridge is an independent quarterly magazine, established in 2006 with the aim of delivering wit, thought and reflection. It takes the form of a full-colour broadsheet newspaper. It has
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Weak Buttocks, a mouse, what's really in hot dogs and a clever calendar: A little shot of inspiration for your Friday morning drawn from recent projects sent in to the CR offices.
Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
510 — by Joe Reifer Get your pinhole on at the f295 Symposium: An examination of lensless, alternative, and adaptive processes, May 29-June 1, in Pittsburgh, PA. The f295 event offers reasonably priced alternative process workshops including wet plate collodion and daguerreotype. Sounds fun! I’ve just finished reading a great book called Desert America: Territory of Paradox. [...]
it's what I do... (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
This is quite a nice post on mentorship and the meaning of teaching. I recommend you read it as soon as possible. Joel Sternfeld on Robert Frank « Ground Glass : "I remember with perfect clarity the day he brought Frank’s book to class and told us how he used to sleep with it every night and return to its pages over and over to decode its secrets. So reading his essay, I recognized the emotion in Joel's...
Tropolism (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
Another long-lost and favorite meme of ours comes back through reader mail (keep those emails coming, folks!) in the form of some links to abandoned theme parks, many in Japan. Making the exploration of these ghost parks even more thrilling, beyond the Joel Sternfeld-like eeriness of the pictures themselves, is that they are collected on sites written in either German and/or Japanese, neither of which...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/22/2007
Artists and scientists team up for an exhibition in Boulder pegged to the changing climate.
Moon River (Free subscription) | 08/24/2007
Joel Sternfeld, "Badwater Lake," Death Valley, California, Easter Sunday, March 2005 Joel Sternfeld Lake Tuendae, Zzyzx Springs, California, March 2005.2005 (from Sweet Earth)Digital C-printPrint: 26 1/2 x 33 1/4 inches Joel Sternfeld , Moenkopi, Arizona, 1982 Chromogenic print 98.XM.225.1 Joel Sternfeld Arizona, Negative, August 1982; Print August 1995 Chromogenic print 98.XM.225.2 http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogsp...
The Village Voice (Free subscription) | 08/07/2007
Recommendations by R.C. Baker (By R.C. Baker)
Conscientious (Free subscription) | 08/02/2007
It's interesting to see how Joachim Brohm's photography has many similarities with the work of, say, Stephen Shore or Joel Sternfeld and is quite different from what many people think of as "German" photography. (updated entry)...
