seriously excited! (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Plate burner exposing a digital negative on Pt/Pd paper All of my equipment and chemicals arrived last week, so I’m finally able to get started in the darkroom with platinum and palladium. (...)
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
When the Farm Security Administration (FSA), part of the New Deal, began its photography program in 1935, the intent was not to create art, but to depict the challenges of rural poverty by “introducing America to Americans.” Yet despite their historical significance and the propaganda-like nature of some of the images, most of the photographs [...]
ART FOR A CHANGE (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Those fortunate to see the latest exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, 1930s: The Making of "The New Man", will not only have the opportunity to feast their eyes upon some of the greatest artworks of the 20th century - they will be given ample evidence of how artists once responded to calamity and social crisis. On view until September 7, 2008, the exhibit presents over 200 paintings,
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
In the late 1930s, under Franklin Roosevelt'??s New Deal, the federal government commissioned out-of-work writers and artists to document the country'??s distinct regions without undermining the notion of a unified America. Known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), some projects ??? such as Walker Evans'??s and Dorothea Lang???s iconic farm photographs ??? have been burned [...]
sisu (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Alan, Tuck and Carol degli spiriti last evening on the terrace. In the Fellini sense. "This duality, which is familiar in the work of such important twentieth-century American photographers as Ansel Adams and Walker Evans, is linked to photography's ambivalent...
Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
David Hockney — Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #2 The Getty Museum I was in Los Angeles over the 4th of July weekend, and made a trip to the Getty Museum to see the photography exhibits including: Bernd and Hilla Becher - framework houses are subtle and cool. I wish the prints were bigger, but it’s [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Abunch of self-described know-nothings, aficionados and anonymous experts curated a new photography exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The museum's goal was not to debate the merits of Walker Evans vs. Edward Weston or haggle over such details as lighting and wall placement. It was to decide if a...
seriously excited! (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Two years ago, I took a trip that changed my life. (...)
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
More tit shots, plz ?
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
America is an optimistic land, but much of our most memorable art is streaked with a uniquely plaintive melancholy and yearning nostalgia. You can feel it in the muted ballads of Miles Davis, the Americana of Aaron Copland, the photos of Walker Evans, the slashing abstractions of Franz Kline and the prose of Jack Kerouac.
The First Post (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
It was perhaps inevitable that the photographer's lens would eventually turn in upon itself, and group exhibition Photography on Photography takes in the results from the last…
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
This exhibition at the Met in New York manages to operate in the gap between two kinds of miracles, innovative and talismanic.
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Diligent readers of this space may recall last year's Summer of Classics, when I endeavored to read as many classic novels in June, July and August as I could. I would have managed to read more than eight books, but...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Tom Zoellner. One title from his entry:the book of a friend, Dale Maharidge, whose And Their Children After Them is both an update and a tribute to the famous lyrical portrayal of three Alabama cotton-farming families, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. Dale's book won the Pulitzer, and deserved it. [read on] Tom
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
LONDON - Comprising over 300 works by 19th - and 20th - century photographers, Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography will present a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken in cities around the world. Including work by Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee,...
