All Things Art & Photography
All Photography all time the Catherine Edelman Gallery has been a corner stone in the Chicago gallery scene for over 2 decades. Her Chicago Project is “an online gallery devoted to new and established photographers in the Chicago area who we feel deserve recognition”. Lots of great artist talks on her YouTube channel. See why Catherine has one of the best eyes in the business.
At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 14,000 people and was worth $28 billion. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people.
via Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class – Salon.com.
Interview via WPR Best of our Knowledge podcast is here
Scorsese lives to create great cinema. Take an hour to learn all you need to know about why film is so unique among art forms by a true master of the medium. (If you have not seen his love poem to the art of cinema Hugo you are missing something very special).
Martin Scorsese, Academy Award winning American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, film historian and preservationist delivers the 42nd annual Jefferson Lecture on April 1, 2013 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
Scorsese’s lecture: “Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,”
via the NEH web site
Next to her husband Alfred Stieglitz, Todd Webb has had more access to the artist than just about anyone. His archive is here
via the web site
In case you have been living under a rock the web is all about sharing and crowd sourcing photography – but the web is awash in extreme low-level work of all kinds. The folks at Instagram competitor and the questionably named Hipstamatic are trying to carve out a network for elite photographers sharing their photos at the much better named; OGGL
