Sanrda, aka La Vuelta Al Dia, whose work I’ve admired for years, is having a show. It opens tomorrow, August 28th, 2009 at Bookshop Oiva, Puijonkatu 13, Kuopio, Finland, and runs through 26th September 26th.
This isn’t one to miss!
Month: August 2009
Interview with toy camera photographer Larry Treadway
Tread ain’t bad. He starts:
Analog photography is the disconnect from my digital work life. Bad plastic cameras are my kind of rebellion to the glut of computers, monitors and peripherals required for me to make a living. I’ve tried to be an artist of some sort most of my life, from photography to a stint screaming in a loud punk rock band I’ve had that need to express something…basically I’ve failed at a lot of different things. Trying to be a decent father, Internet instigator and creative-type using photography as a tool to help that along…
Continue reading on Petapixel
Check out Tread’s work at his web site, gotreadgo, and here on Flickr.
Toy camera photography workshop with Kurt Norlin, Oregon, US
Workshop flyer:
Tired of all the technicalities of high-end cameras? Toy Camera photography is photography at its most basic, freeing up the photographic artist to concentrate on the creative side of image making. Often made with a plastic lens and limited controls, these simple devices produce images that have unique visual qualities. The students in this workshop will gain an overview of toy camera photography, and how to properly set up and load the camera for the best results. Cameras will be available or bring your own. This is very much a hands on class. No prior darkroom experience needed, just a sense of play, and a desire to see the world in a new way.
OCT 10-11, 2009 * VISUAL ARTS CENTER * NEWPORT, OREGON
THE WORKSHOP IS LIMITED TO SEVEN STUDENTS
Sat 10am-noon Historical overview, setting up the toy camera,
1pm-5pm: Shoot: Nye Beach, print contact sheets.Sun 9am-noon: Shoot: Newport Waterfront
1pm-4:00pm Print contact sheets.Cost: $100.00 + 40.00 (lab)
A $50.00 non-refundable deposit can be made through PayPal using the email address below as the account name, or by check. Please send checks to:
Kurt Norlin / 422 Railroad St. SE / Albany, OR 97321 / (541) 967-6892
The balance is due at the start of the workshop. Film (five rolls of B+W), processing, and contact sheets are included in the lab fee.
Kurt is a graduate of Central Washington University (BA, MA) and the University of Oregon (MFA). He has been working with toy camera photography since 1993 and taught at Linn-Benton Community college from 1994 to 2009. To contact Kurt: norlink1@hotmail.com. If you would like to see some of his toy camera work go to kurtnorlinphotography.com and check out the Alt Viz gallery.
Visual Arts Center
777 NW Beach Street
Newport, Oregon 97365
(Nye Beach Turnaround)
Preview of Sally Mann’s new series & book, Proud Flesh
Jörg Colberg says:
On September 15th, 2009, “Proud Flesh”, a series of new photographs by Sally Mann, will open at Gagosian gallery. Coinciding with the show, Aperture is going to release a monograph containing the photography. In the following essay, prepared for this blog, Sally Mann reveals her thoughts behind "Proud Flesh". The essay and images (which are part of “Proud Flesh”, and which were photographed by Rob McKeever) are © Sally Mann; the images are courtesy Gagosian gallery and Aperture. Click on the images to see larger versions.
GO SEE THE PHOTOS AND READ THE ESSAY NOW at Conscientious. They’re amazing.
Aperture’s description of the book:
Children, landscape, lovers—these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann’s take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann’s work consistently challenges the viewer: in her hands, experiences drawn from daily life are rendered both disquieting and sublime. Now, having studied relationships between parent and child, artist and subject, life and death, Sally Mann: Proud Flesh (Aperture/Gagosian, October 2009) investigates the bonds between husband and wife.
Exquisitely detailed, intimate, psychologically and emotionally intense, Sally Mann: Proud Flesh engages territory most often inhabited by male artists portraying their wives and female lovers as Mann turns the camera to her husband of 39 years, Larry. Beautiful, textured, and provocative, these unprecedented nude studies neither objectify nor celebrate; rather, they go far under the skin to suggest a relationship between man and woman that is profoundly trusting: sensual, sexual, sometimes painful, often indescribably tender, and always unblinkingly honest…
Continue reading at Aperture.
The clothbound book of 33 tritone images on 64 12″ × 14″ pages will be released by Aperture in October of 2009 and will cost US $64.
Free one-day f295 photography seminar, San Francisco, US
August 29, 2009 brings F295’s first west coast event. F295 has partnered with San Francisco State University to bring you a free seminar on 21st Century Photography. This will follow the same format as other F295 events- a day long event which exclusively features photographers talking about their work and the inspiration, ideas, and rationale behind it…
The seminar is on 29 August 2009, 10:00am – 4:30pm, at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, US, and features talks by Jo Babcock, Martha Casanave, Susannah Hays, Kerik Kouklis, Chris McCaw, Tom Persinger, Brian Taylor, and Claudia Wornum.
Full details here on the f295 site.
Shit-ass Lomographic Society launches overpriced Diana Mini camera I might actually buy
The Lomographic Society launched a new camera today that actually looks cool: Diana Mini. Cool enough that I might actually buy it, even though it’s definitely over-priced, and if it’s like the rest of their products, a complete piece of shit.
What makes it cool is that it shoots square format pictures on 35mm film. This is awesome. I love square format, don’t like the 3:2 aspect ratio of normal 35mm, but like the film’s cheap and convenient processing. Unfortunately, square format 35mm cameras are rare and often expensive. This is too expensive for what it is, but less than most of the other options.
Here’s the rundown:
- Film Type: 35mm film
- Lens: 24mm (Square Format: 30mm equivalent, Half Frame format: 35mm equivalent)
- Diagonal View Angles: 70° 62°
- Focusing: 0.6m-inf.
- Frame Format: 24mm × 24mm & 24mm × 17mm (select on body)
- Shutter Speed: 1/60, Bulb (N, B)
- Aperture: f8, f11 (cloudy, sunny)
- Flash Attachment: via Diana Flash Plug (flash not included)
- View Finder: built in
- Film Counter Type: frame accumulate type
- Multi- exposure: yes
- Film stopping: yes
- Cable Release: yes
- Tripod Mount: yes
- Dimension: 70mm × 101mm × 60mm
Multi-format, square and half frame – "Wide-angle" lens (unspecified focal length) – Two apertures (unspecified) – Bulb setting, other shutter speed(s?) unspecified – Cable release socket – Tripod mount
(I just love how they’re too cool to actually tell you what you’re buying. I guess Real Lomographers don’t need to concern themselves with the mundane details of, you know… exposure. It’s Lomographic, so you should just buy it.) (corrected in a comment below by davers)
The cheapest package (no, you still can’t just buy a fucking camera from these goons, you have to buy a lifestyle-enhancing, off-the-shelf Lomographic Personality Package) is US $60.
Hope for Polaroid 8×10 instant films in 2010?
The Impossible Project—the people behind NOS Polaroid film resellers Polapremium and Polaroid photo sharing site Polanoid—bought the equipment necessary to make Polaroid 8×10 instant film, and hopes to start production in 2010.
New successful prototypes of black and white integral film for SX-70 and 600 Polaroid cameras have also been completed. Awesome.
More details in this article at the British Journal of Photography.
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