Archives For Photography
Facebook just changed their terms of service again thus cementing their reputation as the new evil empire of the web when it comes to selling any content you post on it.
ASMP states: “Facebook is now able to exploit your name, likeness, content, images, private information, and personal brand by using it in advertising and in commercial and sponsored content — without any compensation to you”.
They break it all down here.
Auctions are always a good way to see what’s out there. Sometimes entire collections become available. Looks like over 90 images from the Avon Collection are now available for purchase. Nice online catalog from Freeman’s for the auction in Philly on September 10th 2013.
PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS
Viewing Information:
Friday, 6 September 2013: 10AM – 5PM
Saturday, 7 September 2013: 12PM – 5PM
Monday, 9 September 2013: 10AM – 5PM
Photography is a language and most important advances in the language/art of photography come from artists not photographers. ( See David Hockney for example)
Thomas Ruff is an exception to that rule. His entire career has been dedicated to challenging what we think a photograph is or could be. His recent photograms were not photograms at all but computer generated works based on the idea of photograms. Both the objects and the light in Ruff’s photograms derive from a virtual darkroom built by a custom-made software program. He also did an entire series of images based on pixelated jpegs as well as a series of 3D and manipulated NASA Space images.
A survey of over 60 works are here.
A good interview about his photograms is here.
