Yet. (Ever?) Many of you know how this guy feels: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/09/random-excellence-the-lazy-aussie.html
Work in Progess/Process
Not that anyone’s on tenterhooks, but some negatives are made, and what remains is what has been called the “photo-finishing.” As a further preview, here’s a little sample ‘shopping: Yep.
You don’t have to abandon the process you enjoy
In response to this week’s alarmist articles about film’s allegedly imminent demise, Blake Andrews posted on his blawwg: “I must live in some film bubble timewarp because virtually every photographer I know in Portland still shoots film. My photogroup Lightleak has eight to twelve members depending on what month it is and who shows up, [...]
A Game Changer for Film
…or at least a game, anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWU3-gA3ueo&feature=player_embedded (You don’t have to wait until the day after March to watch this.)
George Santayana Weighs In
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Only coincidentally, both these links happen to be to National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/04/133188723/tools-never-die-waddaya-mean-never http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/03/09/134391895/the-legacy-of-the-cd-innovation-that-ate-itself?ft=1&f=100
W. o’ W.: Morton Feldman
“As a rule I write in ink. It sharpens one’s concentration. Erasure gives you the illusion you’re going to make a more meaningful solution. Some pages, there is nothing crossed out and it’s usually those pages when there is something of a continuity.”
Bad news; good news
Blake Andrews: “Spending time in front of a screen editing images seems to be the way of photography nowadays. For my last few shows I haven’t even made prints. I’ve just sent someone a file. It’s Photoshop this, Facebook that, Flickr the other thing. Here I am this morning, typing this. Sometimes it’s hard to [...]
“B” on cameras & film
“…how do the tactile aspects of a camera affect the pictures you make with it? For me that is the big hump with digital. I hate the chintzy plastic feel of new cameras. They don’t engage me. I’d rather look through a viewfinder than at an LCD screen. I enjoy dealing with film, unwrapping it [...]
Is the creative act of writing different from the creative act of photographing?
”Photography is a foreign language that everybody thinks they know how to speak.” -Philip-Lorca Dicorcia “What exactly is it that makes the work of a… photographer so much harder given that everybody else also takes photographs? Why do we never hear this kind of complaint from writers? After all, we are also all writers now, [...]
I was just in Paris, too (with film)
…but not in harm’s way: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/eyes-open-back-into-the-afghan-crucible/?hp
