To benefit artist Brad Zellar, Alec Soth is auctioning a portrait commission on eBay. As of this writing, the session is going for $4,250 with 6 bids so far. Ends Nov 25.
Alec Soth portrait commission on eBay « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG
WELD and Mornings/Evenings are now part of the Booklet Zine Library in Tokyo, Japan.
“And so people produce the kind of work that they can show, they kind of work that sells, the kind of work that wealthy people like - which is problematic.”
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Colin Pantall’s blog: Art that sells is the destructive 1%
If you haven’t read this yet, go read it. This is what I’ve been trying to solve for myself - the narrow requirements of the gallery representation lottery - and how to make art that fits with my life rather than the secrets to getting a leg up in the next portfolio review pagaent.
“I can’t think of any meaningful photo that was snapped by a digital camera.” - Ken Rockwell. 2011
Photo by Tim Hetherington, World Press Photograph of the Year, 2007.
We’re on the cusp of a new era…
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More great photo lectures, courtesy of ahorn.
Daniel & Anya at ahorn magazine have just published to their blog a selection of the photography lectures that have been hosted at the Columbia College Photo Department. Invaluable crack cocaine for all you photo addicts out there. Network TV be damned!
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Christian Patterson - Redheaded Peckerwood.
“Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land” - Luc Sante
164 pages, 19 cm x 24 cm, 98 images including 3 inserts and a booklet
Printed paper over board.
Mudita.
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Water in the West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography
(via Design Observer)
It seems that Lesley Martin of Aperture is launching a new magazine at Paris Photo this year: The Photobook Review. Here is a sneak peak at the table of contents. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.
“the important thing is not the method but your command of the method and your commitment to the subject. If I were sufficiently gifted and trained, a crayon and paper, or a linoleum block, would do for me just as well as a camera of whatever sort.”
Doug Rickard, talking about “A New American Picture” for Pier 24
