© Charles Fréger and Bill SullivanOn Thursday after teaching I'm heading across the river to DUMBO for first Thursday and one show in particular. Good friend Bill Sullivan will be showing work alongside Charles Fréger at the Caption Gallery. This will be the first of a series of shows featuring work by photographers in the POC America collective, of which I'm very pleased to be a member.Here...
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Monday, 28 September 2009
W. Eugene Smith: This Photo is Blowing My Mind
Posted on 19:24 by election
W. Eugene Smith, 1957I recently came across a slide show of Kodachrome images on the Fortune magazine Web site. Included in the mix were a number of rare images by black and white masters Ansel Adams and Walker Evans. However, the real stunner of the group is the image above from W. Eugene Smith. In this glorious photo he manages to evoke both menace and mundanity and leaves me hoping the Fort...
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Oh Public Road!
Posted on 09:22 by election
Algiers, Louisiana, 2001 © Peter KayafasThis afternoon I'm traveling to Cambridge, MA for a meeting to plan my upcoming show at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. I'm looking forward to hitting the road. I hope to find a few stranded motorists along the way.I've had photography about the American road and cars on my mind lately with Robert Frank's The Americans opening this week at the Met...
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Anderson Ranch
Posted on 09:06 by election
Wood shop at Anderson RanchIn late July I taught a workshop called Seeing in Color at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. Apart from being felled by a killer flu and a crippling touch of altitude sickness, my experience was overwhelmingly positive. It was my first time in Colorado and only my second time teaching such an intensive workshop.Snowmass and the surrounding area...
Mugging for the Camera
Posted on 06:08 by election
Recent mug shots from St. Petersburg TimesThe Smithsonian photography blog, The Bigger Picture, points to a recent article in Time Magazine about the rise of mugshot features in online newspapers. As newspapers struggle to survive some are finding our insatiable thirst for voyeuristic content to be advertising revenue gold. Mug shot from Least Wanted: A Century of American MugshotsYesterday...
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Big Night
Posted on 20:12 by election
Glamorous Hair © Tim DavisBoy there are a lot of great shows opening in the next few weeks. Of course, I will be preoccupied with my own opening at ClampArt on Thursday night so I wont be able to see these other great exhibitions for a few days:Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Nottinghamshire © Simon RobertsSimon Roberts' We English at Klompching Gallery If you can’t make it out to Brooklyn...
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