Entries Tagged 'PHOTOGRAPHY' ↓

Straight photography is over. But who is writing about it? For what it’s worth here’s a start. And see this classic phibbing-with-photography cover shot analysis our friend Max Allen has discovered at Jezebel.

…in the work of the late NANNA BISP BÜCHERT featured on a favourite site

For fans of Forensic Art History. Read this fascinating three part interview with Weston Naef, until recently the Curator of Photography at the Getty, on the connections between Muybridge and the great Carleton Watkins, on the occasion of the Muybridge exhibition at the Corcoran. Did Watkins take the famous “Helios” photographs conventionally attributed to Muybridge? Read on, at ARTINFO, interviewed by Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes.

Max Yavno, Muscle Beach, 1949, gelatin silver print, 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 in., collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Max Yavno Collection. Go to ArtDaily for the details… “Our” Max’s Form at Bondi (1939) can be found here, there and everywhere, thanks to Dr. Google.

is a strangely reliable criterion. What do you hang on your bedroom wall?  So when I came upon this 1929 Rodchenko I decided I could very happily brush my eyes with it morning noon and night into these days of the 21st century. Going forward, as they say. Even though it looks like a print from a scratchy old negative, what would you expect with a subject like this? See the origin of this image here, and treat yourself to the particular kind of time travel that takes you back to the last years of the Vkhutemas. P.S. Perhaps I need a new sidebar category: WISHFUL THINKING…

here.

in the flow of the moment, here’s the link to the Getty’s new exhibition: Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties. The show features the work of Philip Jones Griffiths, Leonard Freed, W.Eugene and Aileen M. Smith, Susan Meisalas, Mary Ellen Mark, Lauren Greenfield, Larry Towell, Sebastiao Salgado, and James Nachtwey. P.S. Can’t wait to see the book!

Alas! we missed it… This exhibition at the Kunsthaus Wien is worth looking into, despite the warning that “KUNST HAUS WIEN recommends that highly sensitive persons do not visit the exhibition.” Of course all Iconophilia readers fall into that category… Read more here

Sally Mann at The Photographer’s Gallery, London.

on The History Blog. Results here on ArtDaily