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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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Visura Magazine Issue 8 Institute for Artist Management

Monday, March 8, 2010

Lots of nice work on display in the new issue of Visura Magazine from Institute for Artist Management photographers including Joshua Lutz, Simon Norfolk, Paul Shambroom, Jodi Bieber and Rob Hornstra:

Check it out HERE.
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La Jetée

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Still off on Spring Break, but thought I would put a little something up. La Jetée is a 26 minute short film that has been repeatedly mentioned at school by different teachers and peers as being a must-see. So, here it is:

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Super Great Expired Film Giveaway!!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

I have a wee bit of expired film to give away. How much is there you ask?
100 ROLLS of 120 Kodak and Fuji 160 and 400 negative film!!!!

The film has expired but has been refrigerated. It’s now time to send it on to a deserving home.
How to enter:
Send me an email at aphotostudent@yahoo.com with [...]

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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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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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Video of Thomas Ruff Speaking at Aperture NY

Friday, February 26, 2010

A 7 minute edit of Thomas Ruff’s February 12th, 2010 talk at Aperture NY:

And the whole shebang in four parts:

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Call For Submissions FotoGrafia Festival in Rome

Friday, February 26, 2010

Marc Prust, formerly of Agence Vu and World Press Photo, was recently announced as one of three curators for 2010-2012 for the FotoGrafia Festival in Rome.
Marc is working on exhibitions related to the theme “Photography and Publishing”.
In Marc’s words (with my bold added):
Let me explain the concept of my exhibition. As I am working on [...]

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Photographer Jessica Dimmock’s New Video For Moby

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Jessica Dimmock is a talented photographer, a good person and a part of the VII Network of photographers. For several years, Jessica followed the lives of a group of heroin addicts living in a building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The photographs are intimate and haunting, conveying the pain and insanity of the addicts’ lives.
The work, [...]

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Mark Power and Daniel Cockrill Photography & Poetry Collaboration

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Mark Power, one of my favorite photographers, has been collaborating with poet Daniel Cockrill on a piece called “Destroying The Laboratory For The Sake of the Experiment”:
For the past few years, the two friends have taken short breaks together around England in the manner of an elderly married couple from the 1950s, but with the [...]

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