Lost in Publication

Found this pretty nice Tumblr site today.  Their aim is to "bring structure to the immense amount of photo publications. Each page presents another photographer and his [or her] work".

Would be a good feed to subscribe to.  The pages are really comprehensive and offer great insight into the work of each photographer, featuring interview excerpts, criticism, video segments and more.  Today's page features Rineke Dijkstra.  Click HERE for the link.

Self Portrait, Marnixbad, Amsterdam June 19, 1991 @ Rineke Dijkstra

Making a Tintype

Came across this on LPV's the Digest today...

New Documentary About Gregory Crewdson - Brief Encounters

Olivo Barbieri's Dolomites Project @ Yancey Richardson

I haven't been all that excited about Barbieri's work in the recent past, but this looks really intriguing to me.  Looking forward to getting a chance to see it in person.  A blurb for the press release states, "According to Barbieri, "seascapes, great waterfalls, mountains, and old city centers have become fragile theme parks. Entertainment has virtually replaced the sublime. The veduta genre of megalopolises may, by dimension and consideration, compete with nature for importance in the collective imagination. The Dolomites are symbolic forms in movement whose history began two hundred and fifty million years ago. Their component material came from oceanic abysses and recalls the latter ' s design, almost an upsidedown history of the earth."

Read more about the exhibition on the Yancey Richardson website by clicking HERE.

The Dolomites Project (#13), 2010. 65 x 85 inch archival pigment print. Edition of 6.

Conversation About Alec Soth's New Work @ Sean Kelly

This is a great read.  A thoughtful conversation about the many particulars of Alec Soth's new work - from the subject matter, his relationship to his subjects, the manner the work is hung, the scale of the prints, and other installation matters that impact the viewing experience.  Much of what is said within relates nicely to the Photo II discussion around contemporary/historic documentary traditions.  Click HERE to read the full text.

Image Credit:  Alec Soth, Installation View @ Sean Kelly (from DLK Collection Blog)

Moving Image - Contemporary Video Art Fair

This year's artists have been announced.  Click HERE to see links to still from the projects.
Very excited to be able to attend this year.
I'm sure it will be absolute mayhem, but I'll do my best.

Jesse Fleming, "The Snail and the Razor," 2012. Courtesy the artist and The Company, Los Angeles, CA

Michael Snow - Solo Snow

Somebody fly me to Istanbul, please.
Click HERE to read a brief blurb about the exhibition in e-flux.

Michael Snow, “Condensation. A Cove Story,” 2009.
Blue-ray disc video projection, colour, silent, 10 min. 28 sec., looped.

Notes from a Quiet Life - Robert Benjamin

Photo-Eye just posted a review of this book, which relates nicely to Chapter 3 in the Wells text.  You can read the review and see more images HERE.

 Image from Photo-Eye book review

Laura Plageman

This work has been making the rounds for a while now - it's pretty intriguing stuff.  Wonderful exploration of our response to landscape as influenced by pictorial representation.  You can read her project statement HERE, and you can see more by going to the artist's website HERE.

Image Credit:  Laura Plagement (Response to Print of Kudzu, Texas, 2010. Archival pigment print)

Thilde Jensen

Here are a few links on the artist that Skye had us look at/discuss during the Chapter 2 discussion yesterday.  Please have a look, I think you'll find the work pretty fascinating.

Click HERE for the artist's website
Click HERE for a link to her exhibition at LightWork
Click HERE for a brief interview with the artist

Image Credit:  Thilde Jensen

Atget @ MOMA

Don't mind if I do!  Very excited that I'll be visiting New York while this show is up.  Content below is from MOMA's website, click HERE for more information.

"The sign outside Atget’s studio read, “Documents pour artistes,”—declaring his modest ambition to create images for other artists to use as source material. This humility belied the visual sophistication and distinctive vision that characterized much of Atget’s own work. Whether exploring the urban texture of Paris’ fifth arrondissement throughout the first quarter of the 20th century, or the abandoned grandeur of the parks at Sceaux during a remarkable creative outburst in the spring of 1925, Atget captured the essence of his chosen subject through the camera’s lens with increasing sensitivity throughout his career."

 Eugène Atget. Coin, Boulevard de la Chapelle et Rue Fleury 76, 18E. June 1921. Matte albumen silver print, 6 13/16 x 9" (17.3 x 22.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden

Patti Smith: Camera Solo

Nice little website that The Wadsworth Atheneum put together for this exhibition.  Content below is from the site, which you can visit by clicking HERE.

"The pioneering artist, musician, and poet, Patti Smith has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career, from her earliest explorations of artistic expression with friend and vanguard photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 70s to her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s. Patti Smith: Camera Solo will be the first museum exhibition of her photography in the United States. The exhibition will include seventy photographs, one multi-media installation and one video work. Also on view will be a number of objects depicted in the photographs along with a selection of original Polaroids."

Contemporary Tintypes by Kelly Anderson Staley

Absolutely stunning work, and really interesting descriptive/critical essay included on Flak today detailing the relationship between the content of the work and how it was created.  The artist utilizes antiquated photographic techniques and materials, which dramatically impact the process and resulting images.  Like I said, the resulting portraits are just stunning.  Click HERE to see more images and read about the work.

Image Credit:  Kelly Anderston Staley
Tom, 2005

New Stan Douglas Photographs @ Power Plant in Toronto

Read a nice little synopsis from Daily Serving HERE.

Stan Douglas, Flame, 1947, 2010. Digital silver print mounted on Dibond aluminum. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York

Cameras at the Venice Biennale

Just came across this - pretty interesting.  I'm certainly guilty of this myself - if I'm being charged that is.  My archive of 2009 Biennale iPhone images now exists on Facebook.  Go figure.

Click HERE to link to the New York Times article.

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times