PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Scranton's The Minor White showcase yet again why their town is becoming the new Brooklyn, Portland, or Toronto.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
ANN ARBOR, MI.- How do we contend with the immensity of the physical world? We are so small and seemingly insignificant within this larger world we occupy; what is our relationship to nature and how do we organize that relationship to an external environment that seems to be infinite? Since the earliest totemic depictions of hunting scenes in cave paintings, people have long
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
ST. LOUIS, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum announced the opening of Abstraction in American Photography, an exhibition of nine photographs from the Museum's collection by such artists as Aaron Siskind and Minor White that explores the potential for abstraction in photography. The exhibition complements the featured exhibition Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976, on...
Metroblogging NYC (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
I saw this on my way home from a photo show opening of Minor White (more to come on the show) and just couldn’t resist. Taken with an Epson R-D1 with Leica 35mm lens. Enjoy.
such stuff (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Some soldier stopped a moment and spoke. "It's indescribably rich in the dark, isn't it?" Without waiting for an answer he continued, a little unlike a soldier. "This soft mist, the dark outlines of the boats in the convoy make it seem as if the long strong limbs of my woman are what cause the rhythmic heaving of this bloody ship. And the wind is like her hair in my face. And the foam and
Photoview Podcast (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Book Review Excerpt from LA Times Books by Susan Salter Reynolds, January 6, 2008: Our World by Mary Oliver The photographs of the late Molly Malone Cook, with a text by her partner, poet Mary Oliver Published by Beacon Books ISBN: 978-080706880-9 Pages: 96 Used to be, if you telephoned the poet Mary Oliver, her partner Molly Cook would invariably answer. She'd ask you to hold on a moment,
Dragoncave (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Every so often, I get in the mood to make some montages or collages in Photoshop. These are often archetypal artwork, visionary, even shamanic art, or surrealist as some prefer to name all such non-rational art. (I don't, but some do.) I often do this in black and white, rather than in color, I'm not certain why. Except that I might be plainly influenced by one of my acknowledged photography masters,...
YBLOG ZA (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
Wonderful pieces on photography at Mark Woods 's site yesterday. I read the lot . "By photographs that found themselves do I mean the "lucky or happy accident"? That is one name for it. "Happy accident" is a name that I ought not to mention because many an extraordinary snapshot is passed off lightly with this appellation instead of being explained. I do mention it because it is a term of helplessness...
