Too Much Chocolate, a new blog to me, just posted a great, lengthy interview with Alec Soth. Strangely this has elicited some sarcastic and biting comments on A Photo Editor about Alec and his views, particularly his comment that “photography was much more interesting 50 plus years ago”. Some real venom. I find this particularly [...]
I neglected to mention it when the odometer rolled over back in April, but Gallery Hopper is five years old this year. Amazing, at least to me. I originally started doing this to give me an mental reason to keep getting out and seeing photo art because I didn’t want it to fall by the [...]
DLK Collection continues to do a bang up job with in-person reviews of the shows in NYC. Their review of “After Color” group show at Bose Pacia uncovers a slew of photographers unknown to me and highlights the difficulties in creating work that is simultaneously personal, salable and unique when the “market” is leading in [...]
As J. Wesley Brown has already pointed out, Edgar Martins is testing the “no bad publicity” theory with his new show at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angles which opened over the weekend. Despite Martins’ much discussed issues with suspected digital manipulations in the NY Times Magazine over his assertions to the contrary, the show is [...]
Lens Culture has published the audio interviews with nearly forty photographers, all available in MP3 format. Cove3rs a range of photographic techniques and styles, from fine art to photojournalism. A few I’m looking forward to listening to:
Sylvia Plachy
John Blakemooe
Martin Parr
William Christenberry
Guy Tillim
I’m a little late to this (as you can see by the April date in the photo above), but New York magazine has revamped their art listings. One of the big changes is folding the previously separate “photography” category in with the rest of the art. Conceptually this makes sense (the New Yorker did this [...]
