Much of a muchness (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Well, I’m back and I seem to have brought back some sunshine - not as warm as California sunshine but very welcome nontheless. I managed to twist my knee playing tennis on the my last day so the 10 hour journey home in my cramped seat, followed by a 3 hour drive home to Dorset [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
CHICAGO.- Whether commissioned by others or individually inspired, photographers have consistently been interested in documenting political and social subjects that bolster, record, or even critique a nation's identity. Commissioned by Napoleon III, Gustave Le Gray photographed French military exercises in order to boost pride in the government's defenses, whereas August
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
ONTARIO.- Those who have not had the chance to see The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man" exhibition, on view until September 7 at the National Gallery of Canada, have a week left to do so. The exhibition, which has already attracted more than 50,000 visitors, has been well received by both critics and public. Tickets, which also include admission to Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs
Laura Gonzalez (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The Sartorialist is one of the regular blogs I read/look at. To me Scott Schuman’s work is a real celebration of garments, objects, people and how they construct their identities. His work is astonishing. The close ups, people’s faces, the way they fill in, or not, the clothes they are wearing, their nationality, their beliefs [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
OTTAWA.- With just one month to go before it closes, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) is already declaring its major summer exhibition, The 1930s, the Making of The New Man, an unqualified success. Visitor numbers are well ahead of projections and audience reaction is very positive.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- While the Facebook social networking website has proven to be enormously popular, linking millions of photographs of faces to searchable biographical data, the notion of collecting and cataloguing pictures of people is not a new one. In the 1920s August Sander created a typological catalogue of more than six hundred photographs of German people from all walks of life, in his monumental...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
REVIEW: There’s something a little out of focus about the Tate Modern’s sprawling new photography exhibition.
Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Guilford Art Center 411 Church St., Guilford, (203) 453-5947 Documenting "The Other": Photographs of China, Myanmar and India by Larry Snider May 9—June 19, 2008 Opening reception, Fri., May 9, 5—7 p.m. Press release Compelling images of people and places captured during Asian travels will be featured in the Guilford Art Center's exhibition Documenting "The Other": Photographs of China, Myanmar and...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I know little about contemporary German photography apart from the work of Andreas Gursky and the landscape work of Michael Reisch. My impression is that photography in Germany is booming. What I do know that in the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to...
Euro Like Me (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
I'm preparing to teach my second photography course at a local university, and I've decided to make my students read "In Plato's Cave," the lead essay in Susan Sontag's On Photography . Not that I read it when I was learning how to take pictures: I learned by going to the public library in Austin, texas, and poring over monographs by everyone from Danny Lyon, Harry Callahan and Diane Arbus to Eugene...
The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
Preface | Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | (Sidebar 1) | Pt. 4 | Pt. 5 Pt. 6 | Pt. 7 | (Sidebar 2a) | (Sidebar 2b) | Pt. 8 | Part 9 Richard Powers, in his debut novel Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance , constructs a story about the identity of the three farmers in August Sander's 1914 photograph of that name. The novel takes on not just the three farmers, but three storylines too. The many characters in...
City Pages - Culture To Go (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
Don't miss the August Sander exhibit at the Weinstein Gallery. All those incredibly strange and almost mythical people: the bricklayer, the gypsy, the painter, and the painter's wife...If you stare at them long enough, I swear you can see them drawing breath and even blinking.
