Writing a book review (to come) of Eamon McCabe’s ‘The Making of Great Photographs’, I came across this:
“Photographers today still work in the same way, many spending weeks getting to know the people they hope to photograph.”
Dorothea Lange notoriously spent scant minutes at the pea pickers’ camp, taking only 6 pictures, including the [...]
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This year’s Ormerod Travel Award was open to all the pre- and undergraduate students at Newcastle College, (some 300 students), for a prize of £1000 for travel and the printing and framing costs of a subsequent exhibition. An endowment to commemorate Ormerod’s life as a fondly remembered local photographer and mentor, the prize is awarded [...]
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A transnational ‘linking’ project, IPRN is initiated by the University of Sunderland, with EU money. Hard to tell what is actually happening in photographic terms, although the usual vehicles: conferences, books, exchange visits are listed. Strangely, the website’s photography seems to be reduced to thumbnail size, apart from an odd cutout on the front page, [...]
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Anarchistic knitting? A series of decorative handmade bands adorn the cold bollards and barriers of downtown Stockholm. It all looks like a bit more than a merry jape, and I’m certain there are pretentious statements to be made aplenty about the juxtaposition of the soft and domestic, with the hard and impersonal, contrasts and [...]
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So to gather together an acceptable collection of photographs from the newly acquired Xpan isn’t proving all that easy. Experimentation is exciting though, and there are a few exemplars, since 35mm isn’t rated now, so far has digital squeezed film lovers away from the mundane. But I’ve wanted to travel this wide road since [...]
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