Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
I just finished Gregory Gibson’s Hubert’s Freaks (subtitle “the rare book dealer, the times square talker and the lost photos of Diane Arbus”). It was one of those strange books which sounds interesting but then has you thinking you made a mistake in starting, but suddenly hooks you and has you reading to the end. [...]
KnowHR Blog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Following the leader has always been a simple concept. We all need a leader, but sometimes it takes the one that is trying to follow to become the leader. I started writing about design and was struggling with making my point through academic backings. But who’s opinion is it to say this is what is [...]
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 [...]
Light reading (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Caleb Crain considers the snapshot . His NYRB piece is subscriber-only, but full of interesting things: Because the serious amateur made a point of not compromising his images with the mundane, he is seldom of use to social historians. For documentary and aesthetic purposes, one turns instead to photographers who had no idea what they were doing—who "had the advantage of having nothing to unlearn,"...
Thinking About Art (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
I am currently reading the book "Why People Photograph" by Robert Adams. I really enjoy Adams' writing and his view of his art and art in general. The following essay titled "Writing" struck me as quite interesting. Though it's written...
D'log :: blogging no (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
The full text of Simon Watney's searing 2006 essay Tunnel vision: photographic education in Britain in the 1980s… “a blanket critique of photographic modernism was based on highly selective accounts of the history of the work of John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, regardless of the fact that the UK lacked [...]
Spitting Image (Free subscription) | 11/04/2007
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round...
Esprit de L'Escalier (Free subscription) | 09/25/2007
Sorry for the lack of posts! Things are going well. School is going well so far. I like my classes and classmates. Even the stats class seems like it will be fun. (I think working with number crunching nerds for...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/15/2007
John Szarkowski, who created a fresh vision of the art of photography during his long tenure as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, died...
Belltown Bent (Free subscription) | 07/14/2007
I'm still thinking about John Szarkowski, and his gifts to the world of photography. Especially his notion that photographers are pointers. They want to show you what they saw, asynchronously. First, capture the moment. Then, find the memory in the...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
Ruth Stone succeeds Grace Paley as Vermont State Poet § Petrarch & Brad Paisley § Talking with Chinua Achebe § An Irish poet ”at least as important as Heaney” § Translating Cathal O' Searcaigh into Nepalese § Mahmoud Darwish returns to Haifa § Librarians: the next generation § Plus libraries in the digital age § Poetry on TV Greg Djanikian on NewsHour § Harry Northup & Holly Prado among the poets on...
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
It's an open question, and an interesting one, who makes famous artists famous. Who decided that Michelangelo was more important than his contemporary Bandinelli; and when, and according to what criteria? And who decides among our contemporaries? How has the sculptor Richard Serra, to take one example, achieved the kind of renown he now enjoys, and why has the painter Robert Motherwell, to take another,...
BigBlog.com: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
John Szarkowski, the longtime director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York who was a dominant figure in the establishment of photography as an art form, has died. He was 81.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
John Szarkowski, the photography curator who died on Saturday at age 81, was changed by what he saw and showed us how to be changed, too.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
John Szarkowski, the longtime director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York who was a dominant figure in the establishment of photography as an art form, has died. He was 81. Mr. Szarkowski, who began his career as a photographer and...
