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October 2005 Archives
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Added a Village Voice review to the NYC: Stephen Shore - American Surfaces post:
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BBC: Portrait Lessons from Lord Lichfield
From the website: See if Lord Lichfield's tips turned me [reporter Caroline Briggs] into a master portrait photographer.
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Nikki S. Lee: Parts is at the Kemper Museum Of Contemporary Art, in Kansas City, Missouri.
A review: Nikki S. Lee: Parts at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
From the website: Lee first gained recognition for her combination of performance and photography with Projects, a five-year series of photographs begun in 1997 that demonstrated Lee's ability to change identities and become a part of a variety of different subcultures and social and ethnic groups-yuppies, punks, young Hispanic women, strippers, suburban skateboarders. Lee observed each group, adopted their mannerisms and ways of dressing, and became a part of their social scene.
I prefer/admire photographers who spend time with their subjects, compared to those who get something by going in and out fast. Of course, Lee elbows the subjects to the edges of the frame. That's cool, too.
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Manufactured Landscapes - The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky is at the Brooklyn Museum.
A rare negative review in the NYT: A Magnifying Glass on the Industrial Wasteland
From the website: The difference between the works of those artists and Mr. Burtynsky's is that they mostly avoided conventionally picturesque approaches to their subject matter. Mr. Burtynsky's photographic vision is closer to that of National Geographic magazine. Though technically impressive and, because of its scale, important-seeming, it offers nothing about photography or about the world that we have not already seen in the works of countless other proficient, globe-trotting photojournalists whose names have faded into the oblivion of artistic mediocrity.
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Also, compare and contrast Burtynsky with Chris Jordan
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Mike Stocker, of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, has an ongoing series: Judaism.
Via APhotoADay News
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Photographs by Scott Kingsley of a veterans facility in Nebraska: Living Through Windows... Alzheimer's Disease
From the website: Even more, we [Kingsley and reporter Mike Bockoven] learned the internal strength it takes for a family to cope with this cruel disease and the love caregivers have for those they serve. We saw wives come every night to dine with their husbands, knowing their husbands would not remember the time the next day. We saw thousands of examples of enduring and abiding love.
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Irving Penn - Underfoot at the Pace/MacGill Gallery through November 5
From the website: Studying Penn's prints, its subjects abstracted by intense changes of scale, the viewer might make associations - a pig's head, a Chinese Emperor, the Canals of Mars—in an unexpected experience of discovery and revelation. Presented without embellishment and in sharp-focus, this otherwise forgotten and unremarkable refuse becomes a source of visual intrigue and alluring beauty.
Unfortunately, there's little work by Penn online.
Famous for his fashion work, he is also a master of the still life.
Look for the books below, and others, and be sure to ask the gallery to show you his earlier work.
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Ladislav Kamarád - European QEP Photographer of the Year 2005
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Many digital point-and-shoot and digicam cameras have CCD chips that may become defective.
They produce images that are black or have distorted color.
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PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak: The Camera Is the Film—Rethinking Digital Photography
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When will they learn not to retouch news photos?
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From the website: Many serious photographers prefer Raw files (also referred to as RAW) because they allow for the creation of 16-bit images. Since a JPEG file is limited to 8-bit images, raw files preserve more of the color that your camera's sensor can capture. When you shoot Raw, all of the processing that would normally occur inside your camera gets moved into your desktop computer. Because the basic image processing decisions are left up to you, you can often coax much better images from a raw file than you can from a JPEG. Finally, because raw files are uncompressed, they lack the compression artifacts that can occur in a JPEG image.
That's what a RAW file allows you to do. The article continues to an interview with the Aperture product manager, Joe Schorr.
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Peter Hujar at P.S. 1
From the website: "Peter was a genius about sex," says Hujar's close friend Fran Lebowitz in an interview included in an earlier Hujar monograph. "I mean, he knew. He said the smartest things about sex."
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Stephen Shore signs American Surfaces for you:
October 27, 6:30 P.M., Strand Bookstore, 212-472-1452
October 30, 4 P.M., P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 718-784-2084
Stephen Shore: American Surfaces is at P.S.1.
From the website: American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in that tradition it has at times a downbeat mood, its director/protagonist often drawn to the bleak and the mundane. Frequently, nothing seems to be happening, or something wholly unremarkable has been recorded. And yet there is tremendous beauty here—beauty found where it's least expected—as well as humor and pathos.
WPS1 - Art Radio Interview: American Surfaces Revisited - Stephen Shore
Village Voice review: The Unlikely Beauty of Club Sandwiches Served on Faux-Wood Formica - Stephen Shore's American Surfaces
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Self-Portraits by Invisible People
From the website: The decision to pair photography and text was purely practical, said Ms. Duarte: "Maruch's original concern was to gather and write down these beliefs so that they would be available for the younger generation. She decided to take photographs to accompany them, because people in her village could not read - but then the photos didn't work without the words." Still, the combination makes "Creencias" seem fashionably conceptual - a factor that has helped launch Ms. Sántiz Gómez on an international art career.
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Andy Warhol: The Late Male Nudes is at Cheim Read
From the website: Consciously posed, starkly lit, and blatantly sexualized, Warhol's nudes play with art historical precedents while mixing them with deliberate pornographic associations, forcing the viewer to question prevailing cultural and historical representations constructed from the classical canon.
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Women for Afghan Women is sponsoring Unseenamerica: beyond the window at the Queens Museum.
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Contemporary Photography and the Garden - Deceits and Fantasies is at the Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, South Carolina).
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From the website: Evelyn Cameron thrived on hard work and the purposeful life of frontier ranchers. While she forsake her homeland in England, preferring the wide open American West and its challenges, she liked to share her experience with her English nieces and mailed them photographs of her daily life, such as this self-portrait taken in 1904 while kneading bread.
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From the website: The irony of great travel photography is that it demands staying still.
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From the website: The photograph collection has just purchased The Brown Sisters, a group of 30 photographs by Boston-based photographer Nicholas Nixon. The series, begun in 1975 and increased annually by one image, depicts four sisters, one of whom is the artist's wife. Only a few complete sets of this work exist, and it is rare for one to come on the market. Curator of Photographs Alison Nordström describes the series as "a bridge between the modernist portrait and post-modernism's fascination with the archive. The pictures remind us of the family snapshot, the passage of time, and the relationship between photography and memory."
The series is also at MOMA, and will be at the National Gallery of Art in November.
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More projects
Via MODERN ART NOTES
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Read the article at MorningNews.org: New York Changing.
New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott's New York is at the Museum of the City of New York through November 13.
Douglas Levere's website: NewYorkChanging
See the work of Berenice Abbott
More rephotography
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From the website: Soslan Dzugaev, aged 13, survived the three day ordeal in the gymnasium at School No. 1 in Beslan. Journalist John Varoli hears his story as Soslan takes part in a photographic workshop organized by UNICEF for the children of Beslan.
Soslan's story
(See the Related Links column on the right, also.)
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Aperture: Apple's Photoshop
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From the website: In 2003, Lise Sarfati journeyed through the United States, photographing young adults in the context of their solitary lives in towns such as Austin, Texas; Berkeley, California; Portland, Oregon; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lise Sarfati at Yossi Milo in NYC
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