Archive for August, 2010
The Iwo Jima photograph 1
The famous World War II image of the raising of the US flag at Iwo Jima is one of the most influential photographs ever made. Taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on a Speed Graphic (I have one!) the picture was immediately seen as iconic and potentially useful as propaganda in the war effort. […]
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Tags: Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima heroes, Joe Rosenthal, Joe Rosenthal Iwo Jima, Louis Lowery, Mount Suribachi, Private Campbell, Sergeant Genaust, soldiers raising flag, soldiers saluting, soldiers saluting flag, The Iwo Jima photograph
Magnificent. Obsession.
What could be a more perfect challenge for a cinematographer than depicting blindness? In Douglas Sirk’s 1953 film Magnificent Obsession, the subjective experience of the blind Jane Wyman character is one of the main drivers of the plot. The film is a lush, over ripe melodrama where Wyman unknowingly falls in love the man who […]
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Tags: blindness & cinema, blindness & photography, Douglas Sirk, Magnificent Obsession, Russell Metty
CCP me
The Centre for Contemporary Photography is currently running the 2010 Kodak Salon, its annual open entry exhibition. This big, busy show “takes the temperature” of photography in Melbourne over the past year. Sort of. Anyone can put work in and they generally do, so you get a pretty wide range of quality. The walls are […]
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Tags: CCP, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Greg Neville, Kodak Salon, photography melbourne
Eryk Fitkau
Eryk Fitkau died earlier this year, aged only in his late fifties. He was one of the leading commercial photographers in this country and you would recognize some of his work from billboards and magazines. I always thought he was one of the few commercial photographers who had a distinctive style. He was doing arty […]
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Tags: commercial photographer, commercial photography, Eryk Fitkau
Slit Scan Alex
My colleague Alex Zattelman is an inventor and tinkerer and comes up with the most intriguing camera devices you can imagine. Alex is the programme coordinator for NMIT’s Applied Photography courses and is a very busy man, but he somehow manages to put together some wacky machines. His latest creation is a slit-scan camera that […]
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Tags: alex zattelman, NMIT applied photography, slit scan, slit scan camera
Fillum Fallum
Here’s something strange. An artist called Aditya Mandayam uses a laptop computer to expose photographic paper and make short movies. He calls them Laptopograms. Sheets of Ilford paper are placed on the screen of the computer and an image is exposed. The paper is then developed in the darkroom in the normal way to make […]
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Tags: Aditya Mandayam, fillum fallum, laptopograms
My Salon students
Cathy Hayward, Andy and his hors d’ouvres The annual Kodak Salon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography is on and several of my students have put work in. This open entry show is a great opportunity for emerging photographers, it gives them a chance to try out the exhibition process and test their work against […]
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Tags: Bernadette Boundy, Cathy Hayward, CCP, CCP salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Dania Chaarani, Kodak Salon, Margot Sharman, Sally D'Orsogna, Sue Lock