8 more enjoyable minutes of Bruce Gilden.
$5.25 off Radiate issues
Magcloud currently has a discount of $5.25 off each issue of Radiate magazine until May 13th, if you’re interested.
Also, I forgot to post a link to this, but had a short interview on Eric Kim’s blog a couple of weeks ago.
David Solomons’ exhibition at the Underground Gallery. Contact David if you need more info or visit http://www.undergroundgallery.co.uk/
by fredlm
Sad to hear the news that David Peat has passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was an excellent photographer.
If you live in Glasgow or you will be visiting in the summer a pre-planned retrospective of David’s work will be shown at Street Level Photoworks between 8 June - 5 August. Further details can be found here.
“Like most romantic works of art, The Americans is marked by a lack of comprehensiveness: a continent is spanned, but its life compressed into a single grief. Yet, what is memorable about Frank’s books is not that it is passionate, or its form defiant, or its vision harsh — these are attributes of the book, not its structuring force. What shapes The Americans and gives it resonance is the transfiguring power of Frank’s eye. Although his feelings are inextricably wound into his perceptions, and threaten at every point to overwhelm them, Frank’s astonishing ability to draw the emblem from the fact serves him — by limiting him — in the same way that Evans’s rigorous acceptance of the prodigious descriptive energy of photography served the older artist. That Frank refused only to imply what he felt, but, instead, in a long series of exact symbols, precisely traced what he recognized, defines a genius as conscious and extraordinary as that which informs Evans’s American Photographs; that he divined in Evans’s work a vision cognate with his own furious sense of the truth, and — in a process embracing memory, intuition, guile, rapacity of sight, and love — transmuted it into the searing account of this country given by The Americans is, however, a creative miracle.”
— Tod Papageorge, “Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence” in Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography
by aperture.org
by starkweather
“Army Days” by TC Lin
BME member TC Lin spent two years as a soldier in the Taiwanese army in the late 1990’s; during that time, he documented the daily life of soldiers with a camera he managed to sneak onto base for a unique look within the gates.
by burn-my-eye
D.G. Oakill: Elliott Erwitt Interview
Elliott Erwitt did a short interview with the BBC for his book, “Sequentially Yours”. If you haven’t heard about it; the book depicts a series of sequential images to tell a story, rather than the single image process of the Decisive Moment. The individual shots can stand alone and have their…
by dgoakill
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Yet, when we add up the results of Winogrand’s career, there seems to be less cumulative power in his body of photographs than we had originally thought. There appears to be so much enormous energy wasted, used up in repetition, so much frenzy, so many dead ends, so little depth of thought, so little carry-through on implied social consequences. Perhaps this is best seen by noting how little potency or development there is in the work of most of his many followers. Here we are, at the beginning of the nineties, facing once again so many of the issues faced at the beginning of the sixties (Winogrand’s presence, his most forceful work, and its consequent showcasing at The Museum of Modern Art, dates from the middle and latter part of that decade and the early part of the next).
In retrospect, perhaps Winogrand’s career was more an idea than a reality, more a theory than a practice. Promoting the idea, the theory (perhaps visionary at the time), may have been a process pursued with more than a little wishful thinking. The idea apparently could not be sustained by Winogrand in real practice, perhaps not so surprising for a theory locked into a practice so dependent upon intuition, and upon a vision so restricted by Winogrand’s limited view of the world. He seemed to have neither desire nor will to analyze or to understand the results of his work. (Is that why he so insistently circumvented discussions of his work?) He consistently and simply refused to do the kind of analysis of his own work that may have been necessary for its continued development (as Lee Friedlander has shown in his career), or necessary for its cessation (as Robert Frank showed in his). That may be the cause of his frustration, and of the ultimate tragedy of Winogrand’s last decade.
"– Recommend this (very long and very rewarding) critique of Garry Winogrand’s work/career by Carl Chiarenza, originally Published in IMAGE Magazine: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Volume 34, Number 3–4, Fall–Winter, 1991, reproduced over at American Suburb X.
On the off chance anyone reading is in Poland (specifically Wroclaw) between 20th March and 19th April Pawel Piotrowski is exhibiting 22 photographs at Club Firlej. Admission is free.
And that’s a very nice poster.
Video of Fred Herzog about his current retrospective exhibition in Vancouver (via HCSP).
