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Albrecht Tübke and “Different vs. The Same”
(from “Dalliendorf”) © Albrecht Tübke (from “Dalliendorf”) © Albrecht Tübke (from “Dalliendorf”) © Albrecht Tübke On the list of New Photographers 2006, besides William Lamson, Matthew Monteith, and...
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The Problem With Photographers Who Conceive a Picture First, Then Construct...
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....
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The Content of the Imagination and That of the Real World, Continued
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...
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Straight/Synthetic, Thirty Years From Now
(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...
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New Objectivity and the Optical Properties of Photographs
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...
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The Photography Tree (Peeling Away the Bark)
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...
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On Finding Good Photographs
(photograph found on Flickr) © Grady O’Connor Sometime back in January, I wrote about Stephen Shore and linked to the audio interview where he was quoted as saying (note the bold portion): There has...
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Is Photography Dead?
Untitled, anonymous photograph from the 1950′s © Photographer Unknown / National Gallery of Art While Peter Plagens’ article Is Photography Dead? (written for the December 10th issue of Newsweek)...
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Online Photographic Thinking
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...
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What Makes a Great Portrait?
Dad, Hampton Ponds III, 2002 © Mitch Epstein Miguel Garcia-Guzman of Exposure Compensation and Joerg Colberg of Conscientious ask, “what makes a great portrait?” They received responses from Timothy...
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