Words Without Pictures has just released a print-on-demand book edited by Alex Klein of the website’s fantastic content. Some description of the project for those of you who are unfamiliar: Words Without Pictures was conceived as a year-long project with monthly themes that were formulated by an editorial team in tandem with contributors to the [...]
Alabama Farm Interior (Fields Family Cabin), 1936 © Walker Evans In hopes of sparking a discussion, I thought I’d share this essay that I came across recently by Caroline Blinder (lecturer in English and American Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London) entitled “The Transparent Eyeball”: On Emerson and Walker Evans. Taking Emerson’s “Nature” as [...]
Marks of Indifference #2 (Sidewalk), 2006 © Mark Wyse Mark Wyse (who I interviewed back in October) has an interesting piece up on Words Without Pictures entitled Too Drunk to Fuck (On the Anxiety of Photography). You may want to take a quick peek at this post of mine and then read the essay.
Box Props (from “Illuminations”) © Tim Davis Over on Words Without Pictures there’s an article by Jason Evans titled Online Photographic Thinking. This essay addresses the context of the web for photography. It’s a new frontier that, from the standpoint of an independent practitioner, doesn’t seem to have fulfilled its potential, given photography’s phenomenal recent [...]
Yesterday I briefly mentioned the launch of the web project Words Without Pictures. Now that it’s actually online I thought I’d mention it again. The project is created by the Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a way to “expand dialogue about photography.” At first glance, it looks like a [...]
North South East West (Sketch 6), 2006 © Hannah Guy Christian posted a great piece yesterday that discusses the present state and future of photographs by considering the history of photography as a tree: The seed as invention, the roots as early development, the trunk as a firm foundation, the branch as broad genre or [...]
Heidi Specker won me over shortly after an old roommate of mine introduced me to Im Garten, her lovely book published by Steidl. Though her exploration of man-made and natural forms at first felt a bit too lucid, the more time that I spent with the photographs, the more I understood her deeper interest in [...]
Teamwork (from “Credentials”) © Tim Davis Nicola directs us to an excellent, and seemingly relevant, WPS1: Art Radio podcast. The program features a reading and discussion on writer and critic Raphael Rubinstein’s anthology, Critical Mess (2006), on the debate over the role of contemporary art criticism. Five of the thirteen critics included in the book [...]
(from “Evidence”), 1977© Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel I’m not trying to beat a dead horse here, I promise. Though I presume that as long as there is a forum for discussion, this conversation will press on regardless of resolution (it was never “settled” thirty years ago — nor will it be on the blogosphere [...]
Untitled (Headlights), 2006 © Angela Strassheim Leave it to Mr. Colberg to break the discussion down for us. In light of the questions I hoped to ask about the value of staged photographs and photographs of real moments, Jörg responds, It seems to me that many questions about photography — like, for example, the one [...]
