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Lay Flat Issue 2: Meta

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Lay Flat is a wonderful, small-run, independent publication and in case you haven’t heard, issue 2 is out now. Included in this issue:
Lay Flat 02: Meta brings together a selection of contemporary artists whose photographs are conceptually engaged with the history, conventions and materiality of the medium itself. Photographs by Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles [...]

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Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph – Dave Eggers

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph
by Dave Eggers
The woman is a young woman. She wants to make a living as a photographer, but at the moment she is temping at a company that publishes books about wetlands preservation. On her days off she takes pictures, and today she is sitting in her car, across the [...]

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Week 22 Course Update

Monday, March 1, 2010

Surprise Surprise, another short week this past week. Snow knocked out Tuesday’s History of the Book class.
In Monday’s Digital Imaging class we talked about skin tones. We were advised to work in CMYK and not RGB in the info palette for skin tones so that the info palette would display as percentages and not on [...]

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The Death and Resurrection of Photography In A Digitized World (Frieze Magazine)

Sunday, February 28, 2010

From Frieze Magazine:
Long Exposure
Jennifer Allen
The death and resurrection of photography in a digitized world
Photography is dead. That news may come as a surprise, since obituaries about art tend to be written about painting. Invented in the 1830s, photo-graphy is still in its infancy as an art form compared to the centuries-old medium of painting. Despite [...]

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Unconcerned But Not Indifferent (Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

It’s contest season. World Press Photo recently announced their winners and POYI is being judged as I type. The following is an essay that two of my favorite photographers, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin wrote after being on the jury for the 2007 World Press Photo Awards. It seemed like an appropriate time to post [...]

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Week 20 Course Update

Monday, February 15, 2010

A short school week this past week on account of the snow day we had on wednesday.
Monday in digital imaging I was introduced to the pen tool. I had never used it before as it had always intimidated me. Turns out it’s actually really, really useful and isn’t too scary once you get the hang [...]

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Week 19 Course Update

Friday, February 5, 2010

3 Weeks in, 3 weeks to Spring Break. Daytona Beach? Cancun? Lake Havasu? Decisions, Decisions…
I still have a few weeks to decide. In the meantime…
This week in digital imaging, we worked with channel masks. It seems like a helpful little way of working. It’s becoming clear there are lots of different ways to get an [...]

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Week 18 Course Update

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Week 18 is now just a fading memory, but, thanks to this blog, it’s a memory I’ll be able to recall down the road.
In digital imaging we worked more with quick masks. It is a really useful tool to know how to use and even more useful if you have a lot of patience. It [...]

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Berenice Abbott, Photography At The Crossroads, 1951

Thursday, January 28, 2010

PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE CROSSROADS
Berenice Abbott
The world today has been conditioned, overwhelmingly, to visualize. The picture has almost replaced the word as a means of communication. Tabloids, educational and documentary films, popular movies, magazines, and television surround us. It almost seems that the existence of the word is threatened. The picture is one of the principal [...]

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Weekend Readings (Week 17)

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Things I’m reading this weekend:
For History of Photo Books:
Chapter 4 + 5 from Badger and Parr, The Photo Book, A History. Vol 1. Phaidon, 2004
From Classic Essays on Photography, A. Trachtenberg, ed., Leete’s Island Books, New Haven, 1980:
Paul Strand, Photography and the New God
Walker Evans, The Reappearance of Photography
Walter Benjamin, A Short History of Photography
and finally:
Szarkowski, John, The [...]

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