not to say that all relates to alec soth's aesthetic, but it does seem to relate to the current vogue for reverent cataloging documentary or post-documentary photography.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
it's nice to look through this thread and see that practically nothing posted here fits that formula! with the exception of the time we were trying to identify the 'style of the times'
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
still reading through this but even the way it's written seems to err towards a kinda hyper-literate, pristine & literal style, as per the photos. so much of it is reverence of the technical act - it sorta reminds me of "do you know how many chords are in this song?". like the prog of photography. or like w/super-neat tumblr-wave graphics in which things are spelled out in capital letters perfectly centred & typefaced per the Rules Of Design. so fussy!
― , Blogger (schlump), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I'm not crazy about the writing style, and I don't really buy his thesis that higher education uniformity is to blame for the consistent style, but I think his list of project/photo traits that are in abundance at the moment seems spot on.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
ha, sorry - i'd been reading that here rather than at the link & had thought it was instructive, like a ten photographic commandments, rather than a commentary.
― , Blogger (schlump), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah "well-made photograph" is meant as a pejorative term
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
happy birthday, william eggleston
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
obviously ^^; i was looking at some of his paris photos, recently, i would love to see like a lot of his more recent work to get a better hold on it.
just caught this
― , Blogger (schlump), Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
I really like eggleston's fairly recent Paris
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 29 July 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.fotonet.org.uk/images/Portrait-William-Eggleston.jpg
yeah me too - i've never seen the book but coming back to the photos i think i was surprised by how good it was; i think in my head i have a very brief, remembered judgement of some of his recent work being kinda the same but feat. landmarks of contemporary life (which fwiw i think is p much how eggleston sees it, too - that he doesn't consider any of his photos as inherently or visibly belonging to a specific era of his work). but that had superseded appreciating how fresh they are or how measured - sometimes appropriately a lil more muted than his older work, & still so good on catching some salient detail. this is why i wanna just see more, like enough to get a hold on his range. his framing's so interesting & fucking careless, now (like per his whole 'action outside of the frame' framing & all but seriously).
paris:
http://www.alexihobbs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/testuser5_mar2009_01_EGGLESTON_TO_300309_dkapjY_WMNXZa.jpghttp://files.fluctuat.net/IMG/jpg/Eggleston4.jpg
in the 21st century (<- most of the series here):
http://www.scaithebathhouse.com/data/artists/assets_c/2010/09/william_eggleston_main-thumb-728xauto-494.jpghttp://www.scaithebathhouse.com/data/exhibitions/assets_c/2010/09/s_santa-window_300-thumb-550xauto-9.jpghttp://www.toimg.net/managed/images/10130205/w482/h298/image.jpghttp://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_cheimread_com/8752256b.jpg
(also notable & found while googling around, this archival chinavision shot, date unknown)
― , Blogger (schlump), Sunday, 29 July 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6nqu2R7Un1qc65n4o1_500.jpg
[img=http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId={66E4D6CB-A9AD-41A3-B40D-9150BDE16E4C}&pg=1&rpp=20]photography in the dark[/url], at the met, looks interesting
― , Blogger (schlump), Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/a-dip-into-the-black-sea/
intrigued by the notion of a 'communist aesthetic' - immediately I slot this in with jason eskenazi, vanessa winship (http://www.vanessawinship.com/gallery.php?ProjectID=146)
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://visualisingchina.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/JC-s037.jpg
via the blog of the visualising china project, which looks p interesting, the portraiture especially.
― , Blogger (schlump), Sunday, 12 August 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/30059941847/baptiste-giroudon-afghan-worker-in-us-military
this photo made me really sad today
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Friday, 24 August 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2012/08/the-modern-art-notes-podcast-robert-adams/#more-23639http://firstbookprizephoto.com/robert-adams
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
robert adams rules
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I'm gonna go up to yale to look at that exhib
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/breaking-down-the-beast/?hp
― very sexual album (schlump), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
oh hey there's a Robert Adams opening at Matthew Marks in Chelsea this Thursday, for any NYC area people.I'm gonna try to drop by (if I can work it in before meeting up w folks for DNC viewing night)
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2012/09/07/on-photography-as-of-late/
gets at my thoughts and worries a bit
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 7 September 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, feeling that. again, two questions: why shoot? why exhibit?
I like to analogize to writers - the novel, as it exists now, is similarly a mature artform. what do literary critics think of modern writers who ape chandler, who still strive after the well-crafted, simple and direct and perfectly forged sentence? or poets who still write poetry. maybe just accept that you are producing work only for a small community of individuals with like-leaning hearts and eyes.
― USADA Bin Dopen (dayo), Friday, 7 September 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2012/cushman/http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P09317.jpg
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 14 September 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
john sypal blog reminded me of abe shinji and i really love it raw loud contrasty non jokey (international street photographer DARK SKIES OVER TOKYO/SAN DIEGO: THE SUBTLE GLINT OF THE CORONA/THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE MEETS ENTROPY IN KUALA LUMPUR eric kim harsh flash head-on photo of a fat woman holding an ice cream cone = modern street photography)
http://www.japanexposures.com/images/2010/01/shinji-abe-6.jpghttp://www.japanexposures.com/images/2010/01/shinji-abe-9.jpg
28 pictures
― dylannn, Friday, 14 September 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
(international street photographer DARK SKIES OVER TOKYO/SAN DIEGO: THE SUBTLE GLINT OF THE CORONA/THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE MEETS ENTROPY IN KUALA LUMPUR eric kim harsh flash head-on photo of a fat woman holding an ice cream cone = modern street photography)
this is amazing btw
― very sexual album (schlump), Saturday, 15 September 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a sucker for give cameras to kids and see what happens projects.
皮村小小摄影师 the little photographers of pi village
pictures from the photography class at tongxin experimental school in the suburbs of beijing. most of the kids are children of migrant workers, who have a history of having a hard time getting decent or any education for their kids. a sign at the entrance to the school hopefully reads: 流动儿童也是祖国的花儿 / lit: the children of migrant workers are flowers of the motherland, too. i like 刘路明 liu luming's pictures. 涂星星 tu xingxing is my favorite:
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/gongmink5.jpghttp://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/gongmink6.jpghttp://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/gongmink7.jpghttp://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/gongmink1.jpg
― dylannn, Thursday, 27 September 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.unchangingwindow.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bill1.jpeg
those are great, btw, dylannn, & what is not to love about giving cameras to kids. i am trying to get hold of a bunch of pictures when i got a camera when i was six or seven, i am pretty sure my aesthetic has not changed so much.
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
Not checked this thread in a while.
The light on the girl's face in the first of the Beijing shots dylannn posted is great, just hits in the right place.
Really like the Cushman bridge photo upthread too, will read the articles later.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 30 September 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/P/P78/P78225_10.jpg
feeling this mcarthur-genius-grant-awardee Uta Barth stuff:
http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d16182/d1618225x.jpg
http://grennanne.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/13am246.jpg
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
love those
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
first is one from a bunch available on the tate site. kinda having trouble finding stuff online but there's a catalogue at my library imma check out
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/P/P78/P78218_10.jpg
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah those are really nice
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
i really want one of those genius grants. just to cover processing costs.
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/10/new-photography-2012-moma.html#slide_ss_0=1
hopefully going to get to this, this month. last year was really nice, it had that great moyra davey stuff.
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/newphotography/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/The-Coffee-Shop-The-Library-Detail-2-444x300.jpg
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Uta Barth <3
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
uta <3
― judith, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
in her exhibition catalogue, her 'in passing' photographs, like those boxed shots at the Tate site, are paired with extracts from Joan Didion's Democracy
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/10/interview-interview-with-ernesto-bazan-2012.html
longish post, some cool pics interspersed & at bottom
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like this is what all of those hd camera guys are trying to do, only w/shots of their everyday life rendered in the same palette:
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/nick-selway-and-cj-kale-lava-photos
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2009/feb/robertfrankintro.htmlhttp://i.imgur.com/7TXs9.jpg
i've never seen this before and it's kind of making me tear up on a tuesday night
― barthes simpson, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
reading now; did you ever see this,
http://i.imgur.com/H7dVZ.jpg
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 9:41 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
read this while listening to "ramada inn" by Neil Young and was like damn
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
haha I like the not so subtle "PLEASE SEND ME MONEY!" message xp
― 乒乓, Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYDZ27I8O
― 乒乓, Monday, 15 October 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't complain about a 70 cent haircut. (only about $7 in today's money!)Get over it Robert.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 15 October 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
some good photos here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-19873074
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 15 October 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
for gr80: http://ignacio-torres.com/
― 乒乓, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.sarahsoquel.com/INDEX_folder/A_0050_862200-R1-14-copy.jpghttp://www.sarahsoquel.com/INDEX_folder/A_0009_007_pariah-copy.jpghttp://www.sarahsoquel.com/INDEX_folder/A_0043_008_023100-R1-17A-copy.jpghttp://www.sarahsoquel.com/INDEX_folder/A_0051_014_rag_650.jpg
sarah soquel morhaim
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Saturday, 20 October 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
what is on her blog is just special too, http://www.sarahsoquel.com/latest/
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
for cv!: http://www.killeryellow.com/blog/2012/10/16/unicorns-and-mutations/
― 乒乓, Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link