“Today, we might be able to update the nomenclature from “documentary style” to “vernacular Facebook style”. In the end it doesn’t matter what style you adopt or decide to work in; the point is to do something intelligent and inspired within that style and with tools of your choosing. Otherwise it’ll just be uninteresting.”
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What is a document and what is a style? « DARIUS HIMES
This post goes a long way to explaining how Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture is considered art but Google Street View on its own isn’t.
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July 22 2011
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Next Up: Newsprint
Newsprint and the Contemporary Photobook
I bought a copy of Album (in German/auf Deutsch) and its a great example of what can be done with newsprint.
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July 15 2011
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Terrific “Future of Photobooks” panel discussion produced by Andy Adams and Miki Johnson at the recent Flash Forward Festival in Boston. (List of associated resources.)
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June 13 2011
Includes example albums from Walker Evans, Edward Curtis, Gen. Patton, Danny Lyons, and Jim Goldberg, amongst others.
(via Project Projects — Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography)
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June 10 2011
“The camera can be a machine gun. It can be a psychoanalytical couch. It can be a warm kiss. It can be a sketch book.”
— Cartier-Bresson (via designinfo)
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June 7 2011
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#fotochat Reboots Tonight, 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific
#photoartchat reboots tonight at #fotochat. Join Harlan Erskine and I tonight at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific on Twitter. Tweetchat.com makes it easy to join the discussion: http://tweetchat.com/room/fotochat.
We’ll be talking about impact of cellphone photography on the medium as a whole. Some notable cellphone photography you might want to check out in advance of the chat:
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June 7 2011
