http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeESWp9XgA http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/eleanor-callahan-photographic-muse-for-harry-callahan-dies-at-95.html?_r=1&hpw
Make a Chain, and Don’t Break It
TT Patton, here in downtown Barrington, has offered to provide postage for letters and postcards mailed from their store during February (I’m late to the table) as part of the Month of Letters Challenge: http://ttpatton.com/2012/01/31/you-write-we-post-together-we-celebrate/ which takes place in the spirit of NaNoWriMo and the late lamented SoFoBoMo (look ‘em up for yourself). Jamie (she of BACT [...]
Keep Going Back
About his series Zuma, John Divola wrote: These photographs are not meant to be documents of painting, or sculpture, or even of environmental works… No element is of greatest importance. I am most satisfied when the line between evidence of my actions and what is already there is not distinct. These photographs are the product [...]
Dear Erin
A Photo Devoto alumna writes: “What do feel is the biggest problem facing photography today?” Musicians work together; actors collaborate; writers interact (however tenuously); educators collaborate perforce, as do politicians. Of these professions, perhaps we’re most like writers, in that we don’t have many situations in which we can truly collaborate. Mr. Andrews, of Oregon or [...]
W. o’ W.: Alvin Langdon Coburn
“Photography is too easy in a superficial way, and in consequence is treated slightingly by people who ought to know better. One does not consider Music an inferior art simply because little Mary can play a scale. What we need in photography is more sincerity, more respect for our medium and less respect for its [...]
Why jpegs Don’t Always Suffice
Of late, a few artists in the World of the Glowing Hoodies have been making pictures that will present a (welcome) challenge when the time comes to upload them to the College Board. They (the physical images) remind us that form is at least as important as content (cf. Winogrand), if not moreso to the [...]
The BAL “Teen Art” Show
…held a lovely reception last week on Friday night. The show extends to April 15, so hie thee to the stacks before you figure your tax. Annnnd it was my surprise birthday! Thanks, Leslie! Here are the Library’s PR pix as well: As soon as an award list is published we’ll add it here. UPDATE: Here ’tis. [...]
Team Vivian Update
The folks at the Gray Lady admits they’re playing catch-up regarding the saga of Vivian Maier, but they’re making up for that with a brace of posts. As promised last year, we’ve/they’ve only begun to scratch the surface of negatives in the newly processed film. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/vivian-maier/?src=rechp http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/vivian-maiers-muse/ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/19/magazine/vivian-maier.html Pick Sunday’s NYT for the Magazine feature. [...]
W. o’ W.: Gyorgi Ligeti
Ligeti wrote: I lay my ten fingers on the keyboard and imagine music. My fingers copy this mental image as I press the keys, but this copy is very inexact: a feedback emerges between ideas and tactile/motor execution. This feedback loop repeats itself many times, enriched by provisional sketches: a mill wheel turns between my [...]
Next Year’s Roster!
Congratulations to next year’s new members of the Advanced Placement 2-D Design class: Bianca Adams McCall Braun Grace Barbolla Delaney Crouch Mikayla Johnson Marian Jostock Jessica Loomis Imran Mohsin Claudia Nielsen Kayli Putman Michele Riefenberg Stephanie Walterman Maggie Ziolkowski They join returning artists Kristina Bastidas, Lauren Captain, Alexa Hanaford, Fay Jenson, Sam La [...]
