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 […]
Tag Archives: photography
A secret is out!
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 […]
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 […]
Evanescent
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 […]
Everything?
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. […]
Suffer Breitz’ children
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 […]
James McArdle: Camera/Eye 