Photography, fetish and the Modern
The relationship of African art and early Modern movements like Expressionism, Cubism and Dada are well recognised, but where does photography fit in? It was the conduit for much African imagery […]
The relationship of African art and early Modern movements like Expressionism, Cubism and Dada are well recognised, but where does photography fit in? It was the conduit for much African imagery […]
Introducing a new blog over at On This Date In Photography which does just that…provides a leaf from each day of the historical calendar of photographic events, people, images, places and technology. It’s […]
This year, 2015, is an apt moment to remember an important exhibition, first seen 60 years ago, and still going… Recently, I have been reading John Williams, the Sydney photographer […]
Originally posted on Catherine Edelman Gallery:
It is with profound sadness that we report the passing of Mary Ellen Mark – one of the greatest photographers of our time. Our heart…
Originally posted on The Research Whisperer:
After the heist, by Jonathan O’Donnell on Flickr Over the last two months, I’ve been watching Deakin University’s venture into crowdfunding research. It has…
*The research for this blog post contributed to a paper The Liminal Wilderness of Railway Margins that I delivered on June 27 2013 at Cultures of the Suburbs. The ‘Cultures of the Suburbs International Research […]
The question of subjectivity in photography, the supposedly ‘objective’ medium, arose again this week. Is this a conundrum peculiar to digital imaging? The case in point is Paul Hansen, Sweden, […]
I’ve been posting about the way re(peat)-photography permits access to another’s seeing, while Greg Neville and I have been working on a such a project for Melbourne. What if the […]
Re- photography is hot. The change in the medium to digital has made accessing archives of film and paper seem more urgent or attractive. I have posted before about Mark […]
Consider a claret glass; a transparent container whose spherical surfaces clumsily distort what we see through them. Fill it with water and instantly it becomes a lens in which we […]
(James) Brian McArdle has come up incidentally in some recent email exchanges with a public gallery director/photography historian, interested in my father’s work because Brian was editor of Walkabout magazine through […]
What is it like to look through another’s eyes? There’s current interest in the photography of Mark Strizic (see past post) as a documenter of 1960s Melbourne. Fifty years ago […]
Here’s an interactive exercise to try. Take a look at the diagram. You will recognise that it is a checkerboard pattern with severe pincushion distortion, like the lens test result […]
Featherlight is from a new series I will show during the upcoming (this Friday) Castlemaine State Festival 15-24 March 2013. These renew my childhood delight and fascination with the projected image. For […]
February 15, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the opening of the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show arts fair which brought Modern art to New York. Francis Naumann Fine Art marks […]
The advent of photography and how our burgeoning, and now ubiquitous, use of the medium has changed, well, everything, is the theme of essays in Photography Changes Everything recently published by the Smithsonian Institute. […]
Robert Nelson in his comprehensive February 13 review of Candice Breitz’ exhibition The Character at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne (until March 11) is fairly well disposed to what might be quite […]
It’s probably rare for children these days not to have made a photograph, or a great many of them if they have access to a phone camera, before the […]
PhD candidate Rebecca Louise at Deakin University issues this Call Out: Photographers are invited to apply to be included in an upcoming photographic exhibition, TRACES to be held in Melbourne. Inspired by […]
Jeff Wall‘s display lightboxes contain some weird perspective. The celebrated Canadian is showing at NGV at Melbourne’s Fed Square (till March 17, 2013). I regret was not well enough to attend the […]
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