Archive for November, 2010
The Iwo Jima photograph 3
The 5×4 inch sheet of film that photographer Joe Rosenthal exposed on Mount Suribachi during World War II was transformed in 1954 into a 60 foot high bronze sculpture. This is a unique metamorphosis: from film to bronze, from 2D to 3D, from small to large. The sculptor of the Iwo Jima monument was Felix […]
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Arcana
Quinn Jacobson, Oma, 2008 The previous post, Behemoth, made me wonder what other antique processes are still in play in the world of photography. Despite the tidal wave of digital technologies in the past ten years, analogue processes are still popular and there has even been a revival of 19th century techniques. Salt printing (Talbot’s […]
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Tags: Albumen paper, Azo paper replacement, Bergger papers, Beth Dow, Beth Dow In the Garden, Bostick & Sullivan, Chicago Albumen Works, Collodion, Lodima Azo paper, Lodima paper, Michael A Smith, Michael A Smith Azo paper, new Azo paper, Olivia Parker, Quinn Jacobson, studioq, Weighing the Planets, Wet Plate
Behemoth
Ebay is listing a very special item, a de Golden Busch 20″x24″ camera. This is a real rarity because it’s almost the largest film format ever and only a few of these particular cameras were ever made. Douglas Busch is a U.S. photographer who produced his own extra large format cameras in the 1980s, you […]
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Tags: 20x24 camera, 20x24 film, 40x60 film format, de Golden Busch camera, Douglas Busch, extra large format camera, Glazers film, very large film
Your Documents Please 2
Your Documents Please is currently showing in New York, the last of eight venues across the globe (see my other post). The curators invited 270 artists across the world to produce small artworks derived from passports. Then, like a passport, the exhibition travelled internationally to be shown in six countries. I’ve shown a series called […]
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Your Documents Please 1
Your Documents Please has reached New York, its final destination. This giant exhibition has travelled around the world during the past three years. “More than 270 artists living in 27 countries have created passport/ID documents for “Your Documents Please,” an international traveling art exhibition. The organizers Daniel George and Rumi Tsuda, in conjunction with the […]
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Tags: 2B Galéria, Alma in Manhattan, Alma on Dobbin, Daniel Georges, Fine Light inc, Galéria Z, Galería Ajolote Arte Contemporáneo, Galerie Kurt im Hirsch, Galerie Paris, Museum of Arts and Crafts-Itami, passport art, Rumi Tsuda, Your Documents Please, ZAIM
Position Position Position
Funlock.com has posted two photographs that show a) the value of choosing the right camera position, and b) the importance of wearing clean underwear. . . .
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The street
Street photography, Travel photography, name your genre. Whenever I travel there’s always a lot of stuff to shoot. These were shot in Eastern and Central Europe in April. Everything is “odd” overseas, and the hunter and collector in me wants all of it. Click on the images for a larger view. ……………………….,.….…. . .
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Arcadia
Louis Buvelot, September morning, Richmond, 1866 Every morning as I go to work, I pass through this lovely place. Jealous? Although the title may suggest that it’s the Thames river in Richmond near London, it is in fact the Yarra river in Melbourne. The painting was made when the city was just 30 years old. […]
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