Master of nature abstracts (and all-around photographic badass) Laura A. Watt is having another show! It runs 15 Jan – 26 Feb, 2007, at the new gallery space at Black and Blue Tattoo, 381 Guerrero (at 16th), San Fransisco, CA, US. The shop is open 12–7 every day.
If you’re in the area, come to the opening reception Sunday, 21 Jan, 6:30–9:30pm. If you’re not, check out the online preview of the work being shown.
The flyer says it all! For venue information, see the Praxis Gallery Web site.
This is an interesting tie-in to a recent post about print size.
f295 press release:
f295 is pleased to announce, as part of the 2007 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes the list of speakers and topics for the lecture and round-table session to take place 27 April 2007. This event is being held in conjunction with The Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University as part of The Perspectives on the Arts in Society Series.
Date: 27 April 2007
Time: 9am – 5pm (1.5 hour break for lunch)
Place: McConomy Auditorium in the University Center at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySPEAKERS & TOPICS:
Tom Persinger – Introduction: ‘Simple’ Methods in a Complex World
Jo Babcock – Contemporary Pinhole Photography and it’s Place in Photographic History
Craig Barber – Photography and Memory
Barbara Ess – Reality, Representation and Lo-Fi Image-Making
Alan Greene – Steps Leading to ‘Primitive Photography’
Patricia Katchur – Back to Basics: The Renaissance in Alternative and Historic Photographic Processes
Terry King, FRPS – Retro-Invention: A Revolution in Gold and Blue
Mike Robinson – The Daguerreotype: Past, Present & PerfectMore information may be found on the symposium website:
http://www.f295.org/wordpress/?page_id=26All inquires may be directed to:
Tom Persinger
tp@f295.org
There’s some interesting discussion in the comments on this post, Since when is bigger better? about ever-increasing print size and cost on Conscientious.
My reply to the question is this:
Since when is bigger automatically more expensive/valuable?
Different images work better in different sizes. Yes, there is a difference in material cost, but with archival inkjet printing, it’s not that much. Why charge someone more for a huge print of an image that works better at 7×7? That’s a bit of a rip-off, no? Why charge less because a particular photo happens to work best at a smaller size? I have images that are best at wallet size, but I’m not going to sell them for $5 just because they’re small.
I think we collectively need to be careful about confusing cost and value.
The current issue of Ag magazine features "an illustrated essay by Tom Persinger [of the f295 Pinhole & DIY Photography fora] on the aesthetics of lensless photography", including work by Hans Brinkman, Mary Donato, Chris Ellinger, Carl Radford, and myself.
Ag, "the international journal of photographic art & practice" is published quarterly in the UK and should be available in artsier-fartsier newsstands.
Documentary photography Blueeyes Magazine write:
Happy new years! I’m very happy to finally announce the publication of Blueeyes Magazine’s 14th issue, with incredible new photography from Matt Black and Mikhael Subotzky. Issue 14’s essays document two separate hidden communities linked by each photographer’s passion for connecting our lives to those we may easily lose sight of within the larger global picture.
Check it out at blueeyesmagazine.com
Think you’re cutting edge and cool because you lead an up-to-the-minute digital lifestyle and shoot digital because film is old? Fuck you! Think you’re more virtuous than the unwashed infidel masses because you shoot film and only listen to music on vinyl? Fuck you, too! Of course if you’re in either of these groups, you’re probably unperturbed by facts anyway, but you both can suck on this:
Film is a binary medium. Either enough photons hit a particular grain of silver halide to alter its charge—after which it will turn into a grain in the developed image—or not. There or not, on or off, 1 or 0, with nothing in between. Film is binary.
Sensors in digital cameras are inherently analog devices. Each sensor site responds to light by producing a continuously variable ("analog") voltage which is then converted to a numeric value by an analog to digital converter.
So use the right tool for the job—whatever that is for you at a given time and task—and shut the fuck up already.
Here’s how to solve one of those "oh, shit" moments, when your Hasselblad body gets stuck:
Ordinarily the lens and body are both cocked. You cannot install a lens unless both the lens and the body are cocked. However, you cannot remove a lens unless both units are cocked. When the condition is otherwise, the lens cannot be removed. This condition is called "jammed". It is really not that way. It is just that the cocked-cocked combination is no longer present. I have found that the lens is the normal culprit for getting the pair out of sync. Sometimes the lens can fire without being told to do so. This causes the lens and body to be out of sync.
Continue reading the how-to (with pictures) at PhotoWeb Tech
Photography enthusiast Nick Pagazani was hindered by the range and fixed location of his camera’s flash. Since his camera has no connector for an external flash, he needed a light-activated slave trigger to fire a remote strobe. It had to ignore the pre-flashes used for red-eye correction and fire only on the main flash. His solution: Use a microcontroller to count pulses from a phototransistor and trigger the strobe at a switch-selectable count. Brighten up your shadowy background with this flashy accessory.
Get parts list and assembly instructions at Design News
Via MAKE Blog
Johnny McMillan is curating a group show of Holga work by Ireland-based photographers. It will open 22 February, 2007, at Monster Truck Studio and Gallery in Dublin.
Email submissions (max. 5 JPGs) to info@johnnymcmillan.com no later than Tuesday, 30 January, 2007. (Direct all enquiries to the same address.) Photos made with modified Holgas, including PinHolgas, are acceptable. Show Dublin what the Holga’s about!
No entry fee.