Over the couple of weeks it took me to shoot through the last of the Porta, I took few random shots around the house, and a few more out the front or side window of the car… Continue reading “Kodak Porta: around the house and on the road”
Kodak Porta: abstractions
Ok. Enough photobooks, lets look at some pictures. Continue reading “Kodak Porta: abstractions”
unboxing ‘An American Century of Photography’
If you hurry, you might be able to still get your hands on this encyclopedic text for cheap… The Online Photographer scored some kind of a deal with the Nelson-Atkins Museum for his readers, and I picked up An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital: the Hallmark Photographic Collection for a song + shipping.
Continue reading “unboxing ‘An American Century of Photography’”unboxing NEOPRIME Contemporary Fine Art Photography, #2
As a bit of a point/counterpoint to Photography Is Magic, let’s take a look at Martin Dietrich & Marius Vieth‘s NEOPRIME: Fine Art Photography, issue 2.
Continue reading “unboxing NEOPRIME Contemporary Fine Art Photography, #2”Charlotte Cotton (ed.) ‘Photography is Magic’
The recent glut of photobook purchases continues…
Charlotte Cotton’s Photography is Magic is something of a departure for me… I have a variety of photobooks: personal projects; documentary stuff; straight photography; art photography; experimental stuff; etc. But Photography is Magic is different… It’s nominally photography, but most of the photographs look like documentary evidence of performance art, like photographs of sculpture, or like purely digital constructions, and I’m not really sure what to make of this book or the work in it, and will have to think some about how it fits into my personal practice…
Continue reading “Charlotte Cotton (ed.) ‘Photography is Magic’”Alekey Titarenko – ‘The City Is A Novel’
Thanks again to Ted Forbes for pointing me to another decent photography book: Alexey Titarenko’s The City is a Novel. Ted knows a good bit more about Titarenko and his style than I do, so if you want a favorable and fairly thorough look at the book, go and have a look.
And apologies… I know I claimed to be giving up the photobooks for a bit in favor of some actual photographs, but a couple more came in that I forgot about, and so let me get through them quickly, and then I’ll get back to shooting, InshaAllah.
I saw some of Titarenko’s pictures back in Art School and thought the long/multiple exposure river of people thing was pretty interesting, and after actively photographing for a number of years now I’m more impressed with some of his framing choices and the light he saw and captured.
Continue reading “Alekey Titarenko – ‘The City Is A Novel’”The C.L.A.M. And The Rose
I’ve felt a bit uninspired by my actual photography practice of late. I was ill for a week or so, but it went back farther than that, really, back to early January even. I think it had something to do with diet, maybe, or rest, or exercise, but none of that has changed much. Allahu Alim.
In any case, I wasn’t particularly feeling anything I shot, so I was really happy to have a stack of books to unbox and scribble about. But the time has come to just throw all this stuff out there, whether it’s any good or not… So today, I bring you:
The C.L.A.M. and the Rose. Continue reading “The C.L.A.M. And The Rose”
