Raw footage from the original music video shoot of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark." Somethings are better left unknown and unseen. Watch at your own risk. Via Gothami...
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Sunday, 24 July 2011
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sharing My Work Online
Posted on 21:46 by election
© Anneke JorisBlake Andrew's post about the unauthorized proliferation of Melanie Einzig's photograph of a man knitting on the subway highlights an all too familiar tension between content producers and content sharers in the age of social networks. The reality is that if you live and work as an artist on the web you are choosing to both exist in a constant grey area between copyright law and...
Friday, 15 July 2011
The Future of Photography, Again
Posted on 11:18 by election
Google Street Views © Jon RafmanFuture of photography exhibitions always intrigue me. I find them interesting not because they give me wormhole access to content that lives just beyond art’s event horizon, but because the exercise of curators lusting for predictive immortality while displaying a passive hostility towards the status quo they've created makes for curious sport.Most of the fut...
Monday, 27 June 2011
Photography Commons
Posted on 20:12 by election
Yuen-Fu Monastery, Formosa, 1870, John ThomsonOne of the great joys of the past few years has been the movement by museums, libraries and archives to digitize and make accessible hundreds of thousands of photographs in their collections. It amazes me how little The Commons is discussed in the endless debates about the pros and cons of digitization. Never before have so many images by masters ...
Monday, 23 May 2011
No Direction Home
Posted on 17:51 by election
Kylie, Stockton, California © Alec SothI'm happy to have a few of my Stranded images among such good company in No Direction Home, an exhibition for the curated by good friend Stacy Mehrfar for the Head On Photo Festival. The show focuses on contemporary interpretations of the tradition of American road photography. The details:No Direction HomeCurated by Stacy Arezou MehrfarFeaturing...
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Sidney Lumet RIP
Posted on 16:52 by election
The great American director, Sidney Lumet, has passed. A master of social realism, Mr. Lumet's filmography includes some of the great titles in the history of cine...
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Spoek Mathambo and Pieter Hugo Collaborate on New Video
Posted on 18:18 by election
The new video from Fader favorite Spoek Mathambo is a cover of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control." If the video feels hauntingly familiar perhaps it's because Spoek collaborated with South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, to pull it off. (Hat tip to Michael Itkof...
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Perfect Match
Posted on 21:50 by election
UPDATE: And still yet another 'match'. Commenter, BabyCakes, points me to the image below made by Melvin Sokolsky in 1960.A portrait of Salma Hayek by Cass Bird appears on the cover of the 2011 Women's Spring Issue of the New York Times T Magazine. When I saw the image, I immediately thought of Josephine Meckseper's photograph Pyromaniac 2 and I tweeted that the T Magazine cover was clearly a...
Monday, 31 January 2011
Vivian Maier Goes Mainstream
Posted on 11:17 by election
I first wrote about Vivian Maier in 2009 and since that time she has been discovered and canonized by street photographers around the globe. With a new book of her work slated for release this fall, a documentary about her discovery and retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Center it looks like she is finally getting the mainstream attention she deserves.CBS video via Art Most Fier...
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Doug Dubois
Posted on 10:30 by election
Great interview with Doug Dubois by Sunday & Wednesday. Doug is a national treasure and a great friend. Via Liz Kuba...
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