Archive for June, 2010
Impressionism at Bundanon
Kari Henriksen’s new exhibition opened yesterday at Collingwood’s Catherine Asquith Gallery. Kari is a painter who now paints photographs. Working with pigment inkjet prints of her photographs, she adds a watercolour effect that dissolves and softens their sharper details. It gives them a painterly look, somewhere between the two mediums of photography and painting. The […]
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Tags: bundanon, catherine asquith gallery, kari henriksen
Art or Luck
What are these ? Here is the story. In 1988 I went to Sydney with my young son Daniel to see the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It was a happy day on Sydney Harbour and I shot a lot of 35mm slide film. Later, some were put in slide mounts but the remainder were left in […]
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Pencho Balkanski
Recently in Sofia at the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria I saw a retrospective of a 1930s photographer called Pencho Balkanski. Presumably unknown or forgotten outside of his own country, and even probably within it, he was a successful photographer doing creditable photojournalism, portraiture and fashion before turning to painting after the war. The exhibition […]
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Tags: balkanski, national gallery of art bulgaria, national gallery sofia, pencho balkanski
Amy Stein
Amy Stein’s exhibition Domesticated at New York’s ClampArt gallery last September featured fine colour photographs of wild animals intruding into human settlements. She was in Australia recently and showed the work at the Australian Centre for Photography. Stein has an excellent and popular blog which has a link on my blogroll (I hope she doesn’t […]
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Tags: Amy Stein, Amy Stein blog, Amy Stein Domesticated, human animal confrontation, taxidermy art
Photography Book Now
2009 winner, Black Sea of Concrete by Rafal Milach Blurb, the online book publisher, is running the third annual Photography Book Now competition. This is an international juried event with a first prize of $25,000, awarded to a book of photographs self-published on one of the online print-on-demand publishers. Self-publishing has risen in status due […]
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Tags: american photo magazine, big heads, blurb, blurb books, photography book now