Sid Kaplan on Saturday
Talk at 2pm on 25th by the genius who printed the works of one Usher Fellig. You’re probably going to see Dean Chapman at Kirkleatham Museum instead, right?
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Here’s the road, Jack
Doesn’t make me think of the lonely, disgruntled and meagre Kerouac, more the laconic charm of Ray Charles. Hit it, Raymondo!
The psychogeography of the pictures we make tell a hundred stories, some more obvious than others. After seeing these, one observant commentator noted ‘he’s stopped doing the doors’.
And then there’s Aaron Guy, with this road picture, one emblematic of his story of the truncated life and times of Ashington’s open cast mining workers. Or is it something else? It’s speaking to a lot of us right now.
Like most photographers, Aaron doesn’t like being photographed, so he had to be persuaded to look at the camera. He’s in Brighton right now, at a Magnum workshop, which explains the tension in his face as he tries to explain exactly what was making him anxious about his week to come. More on that asap.
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DCAP seminar tomorrow
The Durham Centre for Advanced Photography has started their annual seminar series, open to Durham University faculty members and interested members of the public. This one’s very exciting (but so are they all). From the invitation letter:
Dr Ian Walker will be giving a seminar on ‘Bill Brandt Underground: Tracing the Shelter Photographs in the Archive’. Ian has published widely on twentieth century photography. His books include:
City Gorged With Dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris (Manchester University Press, 2002) and
So Exotic, So Homemade: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography/ (MUP, 2008).
Here’s an abstract of Dr Walker’s presentation. The seminar takes place in Elvet Riverside 1, room A56, and starts tomorrow, 16th October at 5.30pm. Do let me know if you’re going.
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