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Switched (Free subscription) | yesterday
It wasn't too long ago that Google Maps took to the streets with its army of camera-equipped cars as it embarked on its quest to photograph every avenue in the world. As they archived all these random images of daily life and human existence, they captured more than their fair share of comedic, and often downright embarrassing moments. One artist, though, recently trolled through that entire stockpile,...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Robert Frank's candid images exposed the underside of midcentury America and were initially reviled.
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The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Tuesday, December 15, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the tradition of The Moth, a non-profit with undeniable dedication to narrative performance, with The Moth at the Met: American Stories. Storytellers will use the portraiture in two current exhibitions, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans and American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, [...]
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Pop Culture Photographer Ken Regan promised himself that he would never shoot certain kinds of events. However when Keith Richards asked him to document some big events in his life, Regan just couldn't refuse. "I did Keith Richards' wedding, and the three things I said to myself when I got into photography that I would never do were weddings, bar mitzvahs...
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Swisster (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gerhard Steidl, one of the world’s most prolific independent publishers of photography and art is offered a major exhibition at the Elysée museum in Lausanne. The list of artists he publishes is like a celebrity roll call and includes the fashion diva Karl Lagerfeld and the legendary Robert Frank. But Steidl is not out to impress. He only wants to share his passion for images and get us...
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Island Med Student (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Yesterday was a great day. I started the morning off with a nice run into Manhattan and back. After catching up on a few errands, Micah and I decided to go visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to check out the Robert Frank exhibit. It ended up being a bit disappointing but all was well [...]
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Twenty-Cent Paradigms (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
At project syndicate, Keynes' biographer Robert Skidelsky revisits " Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren ." While we have achieved economic growth even slightly better what Keynes hoped for, our attitudes towards work and wealth have not changed in the ways he predicted. In particular, the fact that we can now afford what would be a very high material standard of living in Keynes'...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
An artist interested in tackling a big subject -- a subject such as mankind's dependence on oil -- has a tough job: You can't do it in one picture. Photographer Edward Burtynsky understands that. For the last 12 years he's taken hundreds of pictures in an effort to document our relationship with oil. A thrilling, haunting exhibition of 56 of them, "Edward Burtynsky: Oil," is on view now...
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KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Students may be rewarded for faculty's hard work - at least that's what the faculty union is urging. The American Association of University Professors is asking the 819 tenured and tenure-track faculty members who are set to receive the $2,855 bonus checks to consider donating the money to a worthy cause: student scholarships or local charities.
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Noded (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Reading Stuff: I've pick up a copy of The Americans by Robert Frank. It is an absoute marvel. From what I been able to research he did all the images with a Leica and one or two lens (50mm and 90mm). Sekret Project Stuff:I really like playing with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and have been thinking about a CSS...
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Personal Cyber Botanica (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
His characters are nameless, yet each of us… dancer… boxer… prisoner… trumpeter… dreamer… runner…. juggler… invisible painter… Vita Precarie by Danijel Zezelj taken from Globalproject He was influenced a lot by painters and photographers such as Velasquez, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Vermeer, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank. Wordz by Octavio Paz,...
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The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Before I pushed the pause button on this blog yesterday—to share a Veterans Day sign of peace—you may remember I was fantasizing about hustling Johannes Vermeer, the Sphinx of Delft, into the small elevator at the back of the Metropolitan...
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Lens Culture (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
We were thrilled to hear about this new exhibition, Three Concerned Women , opening this week at the Griffin Photography Museum in Massachusetts. Susan S. Bank, Stella Johnson and Rania Matar share an interest in a humanist approach to photography. Their long-term projects have taken them to Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Susan Bank 's self-published book, Cuba: Campo Adentro drew praise...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
'Why are there so few women directors? Oh my God, I want to shake everyone and ask them that question' What got you started? My impatience with waiting for life to happen. For seven years, I made films in the cinéma vérité tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films....
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John Goodman's Health Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This is Robert Frank, writing in The New York Times: If the Mayo model is better and cheaper, why hasn’t it swept the market like wildfire? He gives six separate answers (that’s right: six!) and all of them are wrong! The answer, supplied by yours truly in A Framework for Medicare Reform is that (1) Medicare punishes Mayo [...]
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