There’s a Cindy Sherman retrospective at Louisiana (quite close to Copenhagen). More information on the 250 pictures exhibition that ends 20 May here. I plan to go there soon; even though staged diorama-like photography is not my favourite style, one of course would like to see this exhibition.
It’s nice not being in love with photography … You have to be very, very careful …… not hiding behind the technique and the camera, the tool … Every photographer is a voyeur …
Lens culture publish several new pictures by Anders Petersen (2005-2006), as well as an interview (18 minutes).
One of the masters of twentieth-century photography, Czech-born Josef Koudelka has made a unique contribution to the language of photography with his eloquent and transformative images that stand outside time and place. Coinciding with the publication of his stunning new monograph Koudelka (Aperture, March 2007), Aperture Gallery is proud to host a rare intimate conversation between Koudelka, art critic and writer Vicki Goldberg, and an audience of fans. This is an unprecedented and unique opportunity to get up close and personal with one of the photography world’s living legends.
Conversation and booksigning with Josef Koudelka at Aperture foundation, New York, 5 April.
Simon Roberts has travelled extensively in Russia. His exhibition, “Motherland”, will be shown at the Photofusion Gallery, London, 13 April - 25 May; the book has recently been published, check out its website for pictures and more information. A number of prints are for sale at the The Photographer’s Galler Print Sales.
Great work.
Ricoh announces the Caplio GX100. Seems like we have something of a trend here, with the Ricoh GRD, the Sigma DP1 and now the GX100.
Maybe, someday we will have a great camera along the lines of:
* large sensor
* prime lens with big aperture, 35/2.0 or 50/2.0
* negligible shutterlag
* optical viewfinder
* traditional knob controls
* no LCD
* manual focus
That is, a digital version of the Minox 35 GT, the Olympus 35 RD/SP, the Canonet QL 17, the Konica Auto S3 or a host of other quality compact cameras from the film era. Strange thing that the digital camera designers just can’t seem to come up with one of those.
Also, read Mike Johnston’s thoughts along similar lines.
Rune Johansen has had an exhibition at Galleri 21 in Malmö during March. I thought the pictures interesting. The style of these pictures of rural people and milieux in northern Norway were documentary and left spaces for the onlooker to fill in, with stories and so on. For me, living an urban academic middle-class lifestyle, the pictures gave me almost an anthropological experience. Isn’t that one of the points about photography (or art in general), to give insights into other ways of living, thinking, behaving?
Something in the pictures reminded me of another Scandinavian photographer, Anders Kristensson and his exhibition Spår av en befolkning (”Traces of a population”).
The coffin with the body of Robert F. Kennedy was transported from NYC to the Arlington Cemetery by train. Aboard was photographer Paul Fusco who shot interesting pictures of the public as the train passed by.
Honduras Street Gallery in London has an exhibition 14 March - 13 April with these pictures. Here’s a selection of shots over at Digital Journalist.
I am intrigued by pictures such as this. It had laid dormant for 30 years or so, probably taken somewhere in the Soviet union during the 1960’s or 1970’s, and then brought into light, as the film was developed in quite another world. On the roll were other pictures as well, such as this.
A fellow member of Rangefinderforum found the undeveloped film in a Soviet-era camera he had bought, and developed it.
Just this month I received a KMZ Drug with a roll of film in a bulk-load canister still inside. The film was cracked and torn in places, but I managed to get it onto a reel.
Tried HC-110 (dilution H) for 12 min; it was mostly fogged beyond recognition, but a few frames came out.
Photography is a material culture; photographs are semi-stable, they hold together, they can withstand certain amounts of stress. Given the whims of life, they can show up in unexpected places, far from their origins of production and consumption.
Exposure compensation points at Look at me, a site for sharing found photos. Similar sites are Superfluous and Time tales.
Josef Koudelka’s career is summed up in the recently published Koudelka; haven’t laid my hands on it yet, but it seems interesting.
B&W is the new black, according to Charlotte Cotton.
One of the boring things about arty photography, the type of photography often found in modern art galleries, is that it seems to be preprogrammed to be presented as square-meter unpersonal C-prints (hell, if they only would have done something more interesting color-wise, like Kodachromes printed on the process formerly known as Cibachrome). Everything seems to be in color, nowadays.
Hoping for more b&w photography, doing my bit over at my photoblog 5063.com, where most is in b&w.