lenscratch: Jay Mark Johnson:
Jay Mark Johnson’s opening at the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills was on the check list of many Angelenos this summer. The exhibition, Spacetime, runs through August 29th.
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Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans: America exposed |guardian.co.uk:
In 2001, Henri Cartier-Bresson reflected on the long moment in the early 1940s when he had briefly considered turning from photography to film-making. “If it had not been for the challenge of the work of Walker Evans,” he wrote, “I don’t think I would have remained a photographer.”
It’s this quote that provides the epigraph for Photographing America 1929-1947, a fascinating book that focuses on these two masters of 20th-century photography.
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Vice Magazine – STEPHEN SHORE:
If Stephen Shore were known just for the iconic photos he shot as a teenager at Warhol’s original Silver Factory, he’d probably still get a place in the history of photography. But galvanized by a road trip from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, in 1972, Shore went on to pioneer the use of color in fine-art photography. Over the intervening years, his photos have also documented America and Americans in a way that presaged the straight-on deadpan vibe of much current image-making—this includes streetscapes and architecture shot to reveal them as abandoned film sets, and cryptic vérité portraits of people he meets.
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Daring Fireball: Pay Walls:
The fundamental problem facing the news industry is simple: As the shift from print to the web accelerates, their revenues are no longer covering the cost of their operations. It’s not that they aren’t making money online, it’s that they aren’t making enough to cover their operations.
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What worked for HBO won’t work for news (Scripting News):
David Simon wrote a remarkable piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, saying that the NY Times and Washington Post must charge for their work the way HBO charges for shows like The Wire.
With all due respect, putting up a “pay wall” is exactly what these organizations don’t need. They need to decentralize, get further out into the world, not hole-up behind a wall and try to tough it out.
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Why Did No One Inform Us Of The Imminent Death Of The American Newspaper Industry? – America’s Finest News Source:
Disloyal Americans! You have aided these treasonous snakes in their plot against Yu Wan Mei. First you refuse to ingest our coagulated octopus paste at a fast enough rate, and now you hold a dagger to the throat of the printed word itself! Your obsession with personal liberty has been a burden on your nation’s success for generations, and now you sit there like livestock as an entire industry falls to dust around you—the very industry upon which you construct your imaginary foundation of free speech!
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Apple’s new Final Cut Studio is out (short version: I am impressed). – Boing Boing:
Bottom line: normally I wouldn’t be so jazzed about an application update, but as someone who’s spent the better part of the last two years working on web video production, this struck me and other web video grunts in the room as “workflow-changing” (some said “life-changing!”) and a nice big leap forward.
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Vice Magazine – STATE-SPONSORED VOYEURISM – Photography from the Czechoslovakian Security Services Archive:
We will probably never know the proper names of some of our favorite photographers of the last century. You see, these people were not working for the sake of artistic glory. Instead, they served a totalitarian state apparatus that was not at all unlike the cheerful government in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. And so what follows, dear comrades, are surveillance photographs taken by the Communist secret police in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 80s.
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Art – Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel – NYTimes.com:
The memorial exhibition for the New York artist Dash Snow, who died last week of a drug overdose at 27, is a casual, personal thing with no formal title and a simple organizing principle: people who knew Mr. Snow were invited to bring things in to remember him by.
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Photographers speak out on Edgar Martins – Conscientious:
While I am waiting for further clarifications from Edgar Martins on the NY Times Magazine kerfuffle (don’t worry, they will come), Alan Rapp (a photography and architecture book editor – who, for example, edited the BLDGBLOG book) talked to four architectural photographers about the complex.
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Mike Berube – hometown « burn magazine:
“Photography is a personal experience through which i choose to express views on the world. The work I produce reflects my need for uncovering dark places, and further feeds my desire to produce humanistic, palpable photography. I choose to work with photography on the deepest level I can, to produce the best work that I can. I photograph things I feel and see. I try to give voice and meaning to the elements and environment around me.”
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regular posts will resume Saturday afternoon.
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