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Two Languages: Words and Pictures
Philip Gefter, Photography After Frank. “Many people approach the act of looking at photographs with an inherent blind spot. They need to know what it is before they can appreciate how it looks.” For me this statement, and the essay … Continue reading
Stephen Shore Lecture
Here’s an interesting video of Stephen Shore giving a talk at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London in October, 2010. I wanted to simply embed the video, but the school apparently doesn’t like to share its free … Continue reading
What I’m Reading
Photography After Frank. Essays by Philip Gefter. I’ll want to write more about this book. But, it’s so good that I thought I’d put in a quick plug right away. It’s not really what I expected. Rather than a single … Continue reading
On Topographics, Street Photogaphy and Lewis Sullivan
Perhaps it’s just me. But when I visited three separate exhibitions and a single piece in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago they meshed into a larger reflection on the context, connections and cross-pollinating influences of street … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Exhibitions, Great Photographers, On Photography
Tagged Aaron Siskind, Art Exhibits, Art Institute of Chicago, Bernd Becher, David Plowden, Gary Stochl, Hilla Becher, John Szarkowski, Lewis Baltz, Looking at Photographs, New Topigraphics, Photographic Criticism, Richard Nickel, Robert Frank, Walker Evans
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Thinking about Beaumont
The History of Photography by Beaumont Newhall. The Museum of Modern Art (1982 Edition) Beaumont Newhall’s History of Photography is so much a part of the history that it documents that it can be hard to read it today and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Criticism and Commentary, On Photography, Photography Histories
Tagged Ansel Adams, Beaumont Newhall, Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, Emmet Gowin, Fredericks' Photographic Temple of Art, Gertrude Kasebier, Henry Peach Robinson, History of Photography, Lee Friedlander, Looking at Photographs, Mortenson, Photographic Criticism, Robert Capa, Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Winogrand
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How to Read a History of Photography
I’ve discovered a secret about reading histories and criticisms of photography. It’s the iPhone. Or, alternatively an iPad or iTouch. Almost every book on photography contains a disclaimer from the author that he or she regrets that the practical limits … Continue reading
Books Every Serious Photographer Must Have
The best books on photography (regularly updated) One of the consequences of my interest in photography is that I acquire and read too many photography books. I hope to develop this site as a resource for other photographers seeking out … Continue reading →
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