Mickey News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
No CEO gets to their lofty perch without a healthy dose of narcissism. But when watching the first episode of the new online series "Back on Topps," it might appear that Michael Eisner has not only fallen in love with his own reflection but fallen off his rocker.
Bill Boyarsky (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Monica Almeida has the perspective of a native Angeleno who photographs Los Angeles for an East Coast newspaper: the New York Times.
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
I've heard a rumour, as yet uncorroborated, that Australian born 'artist' Natascha Stellmach is to smoke Kurt Cobain's ashes in a spliff, as part of an art installation at the gallery Wagner + Partner in Berlin.
Susanna's Sketchbook (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
This is one of my all-time favourite photographs, taken by the late American Photographer Diane Arbus. I remember seeing this image as a student in college and marveling at it's sense of daring courage. Look at the way the woman's...
Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
I've just read and went through Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph , picking up many valuable quotes. In the few of them below Arbus discusses the intriguing gap between intention and effect, as applicable to either the objects of photographs or to her own practice. Although we can all probably confess in trying to produce or attain a certain effect with a varying degree of success, the following quotes...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
NEW YORK.- This exhibition traces the evolution of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, from early Pictorialist works that mimic the moodiness of late 19th-century painting, through the Modern formal experimentations of the Constructivist and Bauhaus schools, to the documentary ethos of mid-century America and the large-scale, staged tableaux of our own time. As indicated by its
Running & Thinking (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Well, that's how many it seems like I'd have to mention to fit everything in. After a quiet spell the tiler finally finished the bathroom! It only needs lino and paint now. (And a light that feckin works. New light was fitted, light still does not work. I've checked all the cable in the loft, I've tried a new bulb. I've checked the fuse box. I. JUST. DON'T. GET.IT. Any and all ideas gratefully
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
LAWRENCE, KS.- Schedules, appointments, deadlines, PDAs, day planners, calendars, wristwatches... Such timekeeping devices give structure to our lives, and we rely on them to chart the minutes of our days and the moments of our existence. As astronomer and anthropologist Anthony Aveni notes, Time gets spent, wasted, killed, kept, and lost. We have leisure time, quality time, good
News & Information (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
On December 18, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it had acquired the complete archive of photographer Diane Arbus (1923-71). The archive included “hundreds of early and unique photographs……Read more
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
I just finished Gregory Gibson’s Hubert’s Freaks (subtitle “the rare book dealer, the times square talker and the lost photos of Diane Arbus”). It was one of those strange books which sounds interesting but then has you thinking you made a mistake in starting, but suddenly hooks you and has you reading to the end. [...]
{ Never Neutral } (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 — All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. -Dogen, 1200 - 1253 This morning [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
LONDON - Comprising over 300 works by 19th - and 20th - century photographers, Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography will present a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken in cities around the world. Including work by Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Popeye biceps, rippling six-packs, and supernaturally dark tans: these pumped-up people have trained for a Scandinavian bodybuilding contest by shaking off every last ounce of fat. But even if you admire their commitment, it is hard not to recoil in confusion at such asexual specimens.
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...
