Untitled (Summer Rain), 2004 © Gregory Crewdson Alec has declared it Tod Papageorge week over on his blog. To keep faithful to his declaration he has been quite a blogging fiend, posting about Mr. Papageorge sometimes more than once a day. I must say, I’ve really enjoyed the posts and can agree with him that [...]
In a recent comment, my friend Nicola Kast referred me to this article from an older ArtForum about Roe Ethridge. Good timing, as the article seemed to discuss a few ideas that have been stirring in my head lately, many of which are interesting to think about in terms of the work of Ethridge, specifically. [...]
© Martin Parr As part of We Are All Photographers Now! at Musée de l’Elysée, Martin Parr took part ’round table’ discussion about photography. The talk was then posted on the WAAPN blog: [Martin Parr] explains how your family photography is form of propaganda, his opinion on technique, what his new agenda is, the demise [...]
Untitled (from “P.S.1 Greater New York” exhibition), 2002-2005 © Laurel Nakadate Laurel Nakadate graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and went on to get her MFA from Yale‘s photography program in 2001. You may have seen her Girls’ School work in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers. Since graduating from Yale, [...]
In 1989, Edward Weston’s photograph of a nautilus shell brought in $115,000 dollars in auction and, in 2004, Edward Steichen’s moonlit pond photograph sold for a record $2.9 million dollars. In just 15 years, the record sale for a single photograph increased from $115,000 to $2.9 million dollars (this is not inflation). Earlier this month, [...]
