“You feel like the cord to the mother ship has been cut,” she said, “and now you’re floating in space.”
Carol Squiers, curator of the exhibition, What is a Photograph?
Artie Vierkant’s “Image Object Friday 7 June 2013 4:33PM, 2013.”
Higher Pictures, New York
EXHIBITIONS
• What Is A Photograph? | Exhibition at International Center of Photography.
NYTimes Review
• THE NEXT BIG PICTURE: With Cameras Optional, The new directions in photography? Good slide show with this one!
What are we talking about when we talk about photography?
(with apologies to Raymond Carver and if you don’t know who Raymond Carver is, my heart just broke a little)
A copy of the catalog for WHAT IS A PHOTOGRAPHY is available for browsing in the digital lab.
DUST MAN IS ACTUALLY CALLED: Berndnaut Smilde!
BOOKS and ARTISTS from THE EDGE OF VISION
THE EDGE OF VISION
The Edge of Vision, Revisited.
The Edge of Vision VIDEO INTERVIEWS! with most of the artists!!
Lyle Rexer explains the book’s concept
WALEAD BESHTY
|Video at MOMA | Abstract Art or Photography
New Photography (2009) at MOMA | Blog with interviews and video
CARTER MULL
At Marc Foxx gallery
DANIEL GORDON
website | exhibition at New York Hortcultural Society of New York
SARA ANGELUCCI
website | Artist in Residence (2014) at the AGO
ALISON ROSSITER
Article/Interview in BorderCrossings
DRONESTAGRAM |
description of project
TREVOR PAGLEN (the artist who started Dronestragram)
Penelope Umbrico
Article about Penelope Umbrico
RISA HOROWITZ
| Imaging Saturn (images) | Imaging Saturn blog
CARA BARER
Interview about banal but significant objects | Talking about her work in FeatureShoot.
THOMAS RUFF
At David Zwirner Gallery
VIK MUNIZ
website | film | At MIT
JESSICA EATON
website | Also search this blog, there are several interviews with her.
MIKKO SINERVO
Helsinki Schoo
ADAM BROOMBERG and OLIVER CHANARIN
| website | The Day Nobody Died | Interview | At MOMA in the New Photography Show
General link for the New Photography Show at MOMA
MARCO BREUER
At Yossi Milo Gallery | Interview in St.Lucy
2013 Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal
PENELOPE UMBRICO
Article about Penelope Umbrico
THOMAS RUFF
Photograms for the New Age | At Gagosian Gallery
VIK MUNIZ
Website | Video at ICP
GARY FABIAN MILLER
website | In Camera-less photography at V&A musuem
CAMERA-LESS PHOTOGRAPHY at the Victoria and Albert Musuem
Directory of Artists (videos) | Camera-less photography techniques
MARTIN KLIMAS
website
SARAH ANNE JOHNSON
At Stephen Bulger | Article in Border Crossings
Artists from the powerpoint for Assignment Three: What is Photography?
Guy Fabian Miller
John Pfahl
Liz Deschenes
Uta Barth
Ori Gershl
Martin Klimas
Dean Kessmann
Adam Fuss
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Mike and Doug Starn (The Starn Twins)
Sarah Anne Johnson
Makers:
Robin Rhode | Interview with the artist
Thomas Demand
Holly Roberts
Molly Springfield
Laurie Simmons
Ann Hamilton (sculptor)
Andy Goldsworthy
Thomas Demand
Ruth Thorne Thomsen
Christian Boltanski
Robert Parke Harrison
Dieter Appelt
David Levinthal
Helen Van Meene
Laurie Simmons
Ann Hamilton (sculptor)
Andy Goldsworthy
Thomas Demand
Ruth Thorne Thomsen
Christian Boltanski
Robert Parke Harrison
Dieter Appelt
David Levinthal
Helen Van Meene
Abelardo Morell (amazing camera obscura)
Vik Muniz
Sigmar Polke
Gordon Matta-Clark
Aspen Mays
THE ROOT of Photography and how it relates to painting
Watch: David Hockney’s, A Secret Knowledge, (part 1), (part 2), (part 3).
A contemporary film where a non-artist makes a camera obscura and tries to paint like Vermeer. (It’s great!) TIM’S VERMEER
And finally, thinking about drawing!
These are tiny tiny tiny drawings, based on vintage, found, photographs. Go here (it’s a great site) for more information
OTHER RESOURCES
St.Lucy (Interviews with photographers)
ICP VIDEO ARCHIVE
BORDER CROSSINGS, Issue#119
Go here. It’s an amazing resource of artists.
All Images are from the NPR Picture Show blog. Lawrence with the 49-pound “Captive Airship.” Courtesy of the Lawrence Family
Before drones (and projects like Dronestagram) were used for photographic surveillance, people relied on balloons, kites and pigeons. The camera in the above image was large enough to shoot large format film and required 9-17 kites to lift it.
Read the rest of the article and see more images here.
A selection of images and pigeon cams | more about the origins, history and application | uses during war | The Pigeon Spy |
After our conversation yesterday about the tension between analog and digital/fast and slow, I thought Emma and others would be interested in Bruno Ribeiro’s absurdist interpretation of Instagram.
And while we’re talking about Instagram, it’s worth mentioning, yet again, Dronestagram. And this: Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal was Drone: The Automated Image. Search the site for better yet, download the program.