All Things Art & Photography
The New York Post ran this article claiming residents of a Tribeca apartment building are furious over being secretly photographed by artist Arne Svenson whose exhibition now runs at Julie Saul Gallery. The images are actually pretty good and in no way show any faces but how would you feel being photographed secretly day in and day out?
Arne Svenson’s Photographs Create Privacy Uproar
Benson works hard on NASA images by combining multiple images and adding color.
“The process of creating full-color images from black-and-white raw frames—and mosaic composites in which many such images are stitched together—can be quite complicated,” Benson writes. “In order for a full-color image to be created, the spacecraft needs to have taken at minimum two, but preferably three, individual photographs of a given subject, with each exposed through a different filter… ideally, those filters are red, green, and blue, in which case a composite color image can usually be created without too much trouble. But in practice, such spacecraft as the Cassini Orbiter or the Mars Exploration Rovers … have many different filters, which they use to record wavelengths of light well outside of the relatively narrow red, green and blue (RGB) zone of the electromagnetic spectrum that human eyes can see.”
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
