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 […]
Category Archives: Critique
Happy Anniversary, Family of Man
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 […]
Subjective/Objective
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, […]
Learning about Surfers from Las Vegas
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 […]
In another’s head
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 […]
From the corner of your eye?…
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 […]
Nude Ascendant
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 […]
X-Ray Vision, or Concentration?
Mark Changizi has been producing papers since 2008 around a theory of the function of human binocular vision. It is expressed in his The Vision Revolution in an engaging Chapter […]
Positive, negative and ‘screen’ image…manifested in the Renaissance
I just read Amy R Bloch‘s essay ‘Donatello’s Chellini Madonna, light and vision’ in Renaissance Theories of Vision. Not being a Renaissance scholar I was attracted to this title Renaissance […]
James McArdle: Camera/Eye 