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“If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters had a catalogue designed by Tillmans, which took the form of a chronological archive of more than 2,400 pictures, all reproduced at 6cm x 4cm, including most of those he had published or exhibited and a lot more that he said were important to him, starting with those he had made of the moon at the age of 10, by putting the camera against the eye of his telescope. In their profusion, they fostered the impression that Tillmans was bent on collecting every picture he’d ever taken. His intention, he explains now, was not that at all. “I don’t mean it as everything is the same, but that everything has the potential to be something, and that one should not close one’s eyes, just because we have preformed ideas about a value system – this is higher, this is lower. One shouldn’t use it in reverse, as ‘anything goes’.”
via Wolfgang Tillmans: the lightness of being | Art and design | The Guardian .
Opportunity to be Photographer in Residence with the National Theatre of Scotland.
GSA’s second most prolific bloggers have launched a great new blog with the distinct theme of the Treasures of GSA Library, to highlight the special and rare book collections.
Whilst cautious of sounding like a right sad-bastard, this augmented reality iPhone application seems like an interesting way of giving archives and collections a geographical context, and taking them out of the museum, via: Creative Review – StreetMuseum iPhone app.
Photographer Joel Sternfeld talks about his project documenting the Highline in New York. The HIghline has recently been reclaimed from being a disused elevated railway to being developed as a park in the middle of Manhattan. You can find out more about the project here. Or follow the project on the blog here. It has also become the focus for arts related projects in NYC.
Jim Naughten’s Re-Enactors is a personal project capturing a series of portraits of military re-enactors and their battles. Colour plays a big part in portraying the portraits as echos of the original events in time. It plays off his own childhood re-enactment with plastic toy soldiers.
You can view a series of spreads from the book here.
Use Me, Abuse Me explores several questions, including: Where will image-making take us? Will all existing photography be endlessly recycled? Will we soon see more photographers taking fewer photographs? How far can we stretch the medium of photography?
via The New York Photo Festival | The Future of Contemporary Photography.
Streetland is a weekend of art events situated in Govanhill, happening 30th April through to Sun 2nd May, alongside many other ‘closing’ events for Glasgow International Art Festival. This set of events is entirely community organised and operating on a shoe-string, and organisers are looking for anyone interested in photographically documenting the events to get in touch. You can do that by emailing email.tomwarren[at]googlemail.com
ARTIST ROOMS On Tour is a partnership between The Art Fund and the Scottish Government. ARTIST ROOMS includes an impressive selection of 232 works which span Warhol’s entire oeuvre, and reflect his eclectic career and vibrant personality.
ARTIST ROOMS in Perth will feature 67 selected works from this collection including Warhol’s early drawings, stitched photographs, prints and posters. The themes in the exhibition will look at film, fashion and photography. The display will also include a large number of self portraits.
The exhibition will be at Perth Museum and Art Gallery from 17 April to 23 October 2010.
DP Review have posted a review of the Medium Format DSLR here.
Following the discussion last week in the ‘creative research’ review, about ways of using the web for smarter searches (beyond google and google images), I came across this Daguerreobase database of Daguerreotypes. Its a good example of some of the things we were talking about, such as searching out archives and collections. I imagine this type of digital archiving will only increase over time, and with the development of ideas around the Semantic web (”…an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” Tim Berners-Lee), the depth and richness of resources we can locate online will expand.
NASA’s Earth Obsertvatory, and their amazing collection of free-to-use high-quality satellite photography, can prove a very fulfilling web-based distraction. It was brought to my attention via an article in Task Newsletter, an initiative which I think originates from the Werkplaats Typografie.
Also discussed a lot in that publication, which focuses on both design utopias and mundane science-fiction, is the Whole Earth Catalog — The product of Stewart Brand, some powerful drugs, and a left-over project from 1966 when he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, the first image of the “Whole Earth.”
It was Brands idea that the image of this “Whole Earth”, viewed as one, at once, might go someway towards creating greater global cooperation and understanding – a powerful symbol, evoking a sense of shared destiny.
A couple of interesting stories in the Guardian recently, regarding freedom to take images, and seemingly paint, in the public realm:
“I told them, I’m hardly a terrorist, I’m watercolouring. One policeman said, you’re not painting the airport, are you? I told him I was painting the sugar factory. He said no one paints factories. I told him Lowry painted loads of factories and made a mint. He got a bit touchy then.”
Notification about the first talk of this term, Colin Gray. This one is going feral as we hit the streets and head downtown to Streetlevel photoworks on King St where Colin currently has an exhibition. That was an odd sentence.
Meet outside the foulis at 3:15pm on Fri 15th Jan.
Grafik Magazine have a new website, or possibly webzite.
Three interesting links from the guardian this weekend – the first a new series of publications showcasing 100 great press photographs (collect ‘em all…), the second an article on the work of women from the Bauhaus, and the gap between the promise of equality and the reality of restricted roles (Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus apparently thought women could only think in two dimensions, or so it’s claimed in this article…), and the third being their coverage of the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This report, published by the Manifesto Club, looks at the increasing restrictions on photography in public places.
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