Results tagged “photography” from altfotonet

Joe Deal, has passed away, according to this entry on Politics and Theory

(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography: Passings ~ Joe Deal (1947-2010), here as well

Joe Deal was a participant in the New Topographics exhibition, that has had a lasting influence on many photographers, myself included.

A succinct and thought provoking essay. [A Presentation at first MoMA Photography Forum, February 2010]

[From Paul Graham Archive, The Unreasonable Apple]

From JÖRG M. COLBERG's revamped Weblog, Conscientious

Alec Soth has returned to the blogosphere, this blog appears to focus on photography books and photography publishing.

Reminiscent of the Russian Constructivists this mage plays with perception and depth quite nicley

This post is two months late. It was meant to be a guest post by _barb_ but the material got stranded in some Flickr anabranches for a couple of months. So here, belatedly, is _barb's_ post.

This photo by NNBB + Alf is called Buenos Aires.

One thing that I always enjoy in photos is a sense of lightness and effortlessness, as if an image was taken casually in passing. Quite often images can carry a heavy air of self consciousness through too much staging or subsequent labouring in photoshop. Often too, I feel that not enough attention has been given to the subject matter and too much is about the photographer's personal taste in editing.

Buenos Aires does things the right way. This photo was taken with a light hand but a sure- footed sense of how to build a picture up. The visual weight is distributed just right and the lines flow with an easy elegance that lets us at first glance forget that we are looking at quite a complex and intelligent composition.

Can quality photographs be achieved by art photographers post-processing images produced by disposable cameras?

To investigate this the Pursuit Group sent 2 cams across Europe and the Americas asking its members to take photos. some reuslts were posted to flckr in this set by Casually Kristina.

The 'A Tale of 2 cities Project'. This project gets people from various parts of the the wold to send pre-exposed film to each and other and double expose the roll, and see what results.

I've always had a soft spot for early nineteenth century photography, a fascination with the technology  and an interest in the way they approached their picture making.

This  picture is by Carlo Ponti, a photographic chroniclers of Venice's  tourist sights.  It is of the Palazzo Contarini della Scala or Dai Bovolo circa 1850's,  and it is from the National Galleries of Scotland's  newly formed  Flickr stream

The architecture is a mixture of early Venetian Renaissance and Gothic-Byzantine building techniques, with its main feature the arches and railing that follow the winding staircase to the top of the building.

This image, by donina on flickr, asks several questions. Once we move beyond, the obvious, like why they the bins are there, why only 3, what has been excluded, once we move beyond, the graphic elements and the colour and the light, what is left? More questions. Questions about consumerism, questions about re-cycling, questions about beauty.

Is this enough to elevate this image to something more than mere document?

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