Wanderings

xwidep: The Evolution of Art - Postcard/Chart by Vittore Baroni...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:46:26 +0100

The Evolution of Art - Postcard/Chart by Vittore Baroni & Joel Cohen

From Artists’ Postcards by Jeremy Cooper

modernism-in-metroland: Harlesden Odeon (1937) by Whinney, Son...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:11:41 +0100

Harlesden Odeon (1937) by Whinney, Son and Hall.

Another demolished cinema. This one operated from 1937 to 1972, after which it became a concert hall and then a night club, before being torn down in 1989 and replaced with flats.

Image from English Heritage.

Stenop.es

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:32:30 +0000

Stenop.es:

Stenop.es is an experimental visual project using a primitive technique: The Camera Obscura. Applied to an original scale, the project is based on projection from the outside to the inside. Two layers are merging while the landscapes takes place in the interior’s intimacy.

Romain Alary and Antoine Levi are both photographes and cameraman and this website is the outcome of one of their common work.

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 14, With Special Guest Vivienne...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:51:51 +0000

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 14, With Special Guest Vivienne Gucwa

nythroughthelens:

I was interviewed last night by the wonderful Thomas Hawk and the lovely Lotus Carroll on their on-air live show called Phototalk Plus.

I was super nervous and there were some weird (but funny, in retrospect) technical difficulties but they were finally able to get me on the phone and everything went smooth after that. I really enjoyed the questions from them and the super active and hyper live audience.

So, if you ever wanted to hear me answer questions about how I got started with photography (which admittedly is fairly crazy, at least when I think about it), my thoughts about shooting in New York City, my thoughts about cameras and post-processing/editing as well as some talk about noodles (yes, really!), you may just enjoy this video (my full interview starts at 49:00):

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 14, With Special Guest Vivienne Gucwa

Enjoy!

(I decided to accompany this post with one of the photos I talked about briefly during the show, one of my favorite examples of industrial urban decay here in New York City: The Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn)

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Buy “Oxidation - Domino Sugar Factory - New York City” Prints here, email me, or ask for help.

Tri-colour 3 point pinhole on Flickr. Edinburgh Pinhole...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Tri-colour 3 point pinhole on Flickr.

Edinburgh Pinhole Photography Festival. Exhibition and events.. RBGE, Fletcher Building.

BBC News - World Press Photo winner 2011

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:53:31 +0000

BBC News - World Press Photo winner 2011

Sarah Roberts: Dark Matters

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:54:57 +0000

Sarah Roberts: Dark Matters:

Not photography but a really fantastic and provoking exhibition. Go see it, rediscover wonder.

Gallery 3, Art’s Complex, St.Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE. Open every day until the 12th February from 10.00 am - 6.00 pm

The invisible dragon: essays on beauty - Dave Hickey

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:37:37 +0000

The invisible dragon: essays on beauty - Dave Hickey

Photography: A Middle-Brow Art - Pierre Bourdieu, Shaun Whiteside

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:32:04 +0000

Photography: A Middle-Brow Art - Pierre Bourdieu, Shaun Whiteside :

“ Bourdieu and his associates show that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the social uses of this ordinary art.”

BEAUTY IN PHOTOGRAPHY Essays in Defense of Traditional Values. By Robert Adams.

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:21:00 +0000

BEAUTY IN PHOTOGRAPHY Essays in Defense of Traditional Values. By Robert Adams.:

The Point Of Photographs - Andy Grundberg,The New York Times

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:58:51 +0000

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

Joseph Cornell

Photo by Duane Michals, 1969.

via anneyhall

"Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album At last you yielded up the album, which Once open,..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:50:03 +0000

“

Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album

At last you yielded up the album, which
Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages
Matt and glossy on the thick black pages!
Too much confectionery, too rich:
I choke on such nutritious images.

My swivel eye hungers from pose to pose —
In pigtails, clutching a reluctant cat;
Or furred yourself, a sweet girl-graduate;
Or lifting a heavy-headed rose
Beneath a trellis, or in a trilby-hat

(Faintly disturbing, that, in several ways) —
From every side you strike at my control,
Not least through those these disquieting chaps who loll
At ease about your earlier days:
Not quite your class, I’d say, dear, on the whole.

But o, photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! that records
Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,
And will not censor blemishes
Like washing-lines, and Hall’s-Distemper boards,

But shows a cat as disinclined, and shades
A chin as doubled when it is, what grace
Your candour thus confers upon her face!
How overwhelmingly persuades
That this is a real girl in a real place,

In every sense empirically true!
Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate,
These misty parks and motors, lacerate
Simply by being you; you
Contract my heart by looking out of date.

Yes, true; but in the end, surely, we cry
Not only at exclusion, but because
It leaves us free to cry. We know what was
Won’t call on us to justify
Our grief, however hard we yowl across

The gap from eye to page. So I am left
To mourn (without a chance of consequence)
You, balanced on a bike against a fence;
To wonder if you’d spot the theft
Of this one of you bathing; to condense,

In short, a past that no one now can share,
No matter whose your future; calm and dry,
It holds you like a heaven, and you lie
Unvariably lovely there,
Smaller and clearer as the years go by.

”

- Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived, 1953.