Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Review of The Hollow Places
After recently divorced Kara moves into her uncle’s home she discovers through a hole in a wall a portal to an alternate and mysterious reality. This is the beginning to T. Kingfisher’s horror novel The Hollow Places, a story that moves at a quick pace but offers too few spine-tingling scares.
Friday, April 24, 2020
Photographers against COVID-19
Photographers are selling limited edition prints for € 100 each to raise funds for “All United Against Coronavirus,” a French effort to support COVID-19 research and relief.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Martin Parr interviews Alec Soth
Martin Parr has a fairly new YouTube series in which he has casual conversations with photographers. In the most recent segment Parr sits down with Alec Soth, who discusses his beginnings as a photographer and his most recent work, I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating.
Toward the end of the discussion Soth touches on photo ethics and photographer guilt: “The biggest ethical problems come in, not in the making of the work, but in its distribution … there’s a lot of discussion about the ethics of photography, the ethics of photographing someone on the street. Really taking the picture of someone on the street isn’t a problem, it’s putting it on the internet or selling it in the gallery.”
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
A video tour of André Kertész exhibition in Toronto
Gallery owner Stephen Bulger gives an 11-part video tour of “A Life in Photographs,” an exhibition of André Kertész (1894-1985) images in Toronto. Each video is fairly short and they are a surprisingly intimate and captivating look at Kertész life and work.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Here comes the sun
On a more pleasant note, the hospital where my daughter works in Florida plays “Here Comes the Sun” when a Covid patient is extubated and the theme from Rocky when one is discharged. It’s a nice thought.