Apologies

Sorry about this week, folks – not what I had in mind in the grand scheme of things.  Plus ca change…

anyway – i would be delighted if you emailed me ideas, images, concerns, alternatives, quandaries and the like…. feel free!

Spotted this today – picks up on previous posts about photography and the law – it’s about Google’s Street View – which made me realise there is a direct connection to sanctuary here…

Related posts

• No related posts.

Charting the Canyon

I wasn’t sure about this at first, but the more I think about it, the more I enjoy it – as much for the element of discovery and the need to really get to know the landscape in question as for the finished work.

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe set iconic landscape images of the Grand Canyon national park – from William Bell to Ansel Adams – back into their wider context, often showing how images we know as individual, separate, are in fact adjacent, taken from the same spot at the same time…  I wonder to what extent that is a factor of the equipment used? I am finding that once set up, you don’t tend to travel too far from one spot with a large format camera (think bellows, etc), and do tend to look around for other shots from where you are.

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe's "Rock Formations on the Road to Lee's Ferry, Arizona, 2008" incorporated (left) "Plateau North of the Colorado River Near the Paria" and Headlands North of the Colorado River," both by William Bell, 1872.

http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/exhibitionklett.aspx

Related posts

• Yousef Khanfar (1)

Photography and the Law

Some recent stories to get you thinking…  I would be really interested to hear your views on these – remember you can add your own comments once you have logged in.  Why is it worth thinking about these things?  Remember the bits in the marking schedule that ask you to demonstrate awareness of artists’ concerns?  Photography’s freedom of action in this country might be considered under attack at the present.  There are arguments on both sides to take into account.  Does any of this have a possible link to Sanctuary?
‘Foolish’ photography condemned…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6069995.ece
Photography crackdown on London Underground…
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Photography_crackdown_on_London_Underground_news_280480.html
When can papers you’re carrying be snapped?…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7991754.stm
Question one: Stop and search..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jan/19/stop-and-search-civil-liberties-law
Photographing America’s war dead…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/feb/27/obama-dover-coffins-photographs-iraq

and in a different vein, I caught this on radio 4 yesterday morning.  I’m including it here for you to ponder becasue the mother of one of the victims in effect said the work was fine until the identity of the artist was known – it’s this larger question i would like you to ponder. To what extent is the identity of the artist important in our response to a work?
Anger over child killer’s artwork…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7992941.stm

Complicated, isn’t it?

[important to add this one - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/11/public-camera-video-technology]

Just to cheer ourselves up, here’s the time lapse image I mentioned yesterday.

The annual Mount Ogiyama No-Yaki fire festival in Beppu, a city in Kyushu, southern Japan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/inpictures

And finally one for Chris – a new twist on the Robert Capa ‘Falling Soldier’ image story…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/27/photography.pressandpublishing

Have a good Easter!

Related posts

• Update on Robert Capa (0)
• Gerda Taro – War Photography at The Barbican (0)
• Barbican Exhibition (0)

Sanctuary

This popped up in today’s Guardian – Gillian Wearing’s work fits into the stream of exploring identity, but I wondered to what extent that has a bearing on sanctuary.  A couple of you are looking at this from a very personal,  identity-centred idea.

It took three or four months to prepare' ... A self-portrait of Gillian Wearing as her brother (detail). Photograph: Gillian Wearing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/09/artist-gillian-wearing-best-shot

There is a wonderful time lapse/image stitching photo in the centre spread, but can’t find it on-line.

Related posts

• No related posts.

Websites to watch..

Just a few from this weekend:

Lens Culture is an online magazine celebrating international contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures.

http://www.lensculture.com/index.html

Diane Ducruet’s work might be a useful starting point for Sanctuary, and there are recent articles on David Lachapelle, Russian and Turkish Photography – and some good street stuff.

The Guardian keeps championing photography – several good articles from William Eggleston to Martin Parr.  The Unseen: 25 years of press photography has some good stuff too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography

bother – just spent an hour reading various articles…  links page worth a look too.

Related posts

• No related posts.

The New Scene – Purbeck Perspectives from Artists Under 35

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Holton Lee invites the new generation of artists (anybody between 16 and 35 years of age) to submit work for a group show in the award winning exhibition space, Faith House, 23 May – 5 July 2009 including Purbeck Art Week. We want to display the talents of local people and those influenced by this unique, special area of Dorset. What does Purbeck mean to you?
Entry is free. All media except film & video. Deadline for entry is Tuesday 28th April 2009. For an application form contact:
Tel. 01202 625562
curator@holtonlee.co.uk
Holton Lee
East Holton
Holton Heath
Poole
Dorset
BH16 6JN

Related posts

• No related posts.