All Things Art & Photography
I had never heard of the young and gifted Sarah Jorosz until today but if the company she keeps is any indication she may be the new anointed one of folk/country royalty. The last woman to make this kind of exquisite music so young was Emmy Lou Harris. Take in her song Run Away, 1000 Things and
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Music Break: Sarah Jarosz
Self trained photographer Alex Prager makes stills (and films) based on the film stills of the Golden Years of Hollywood. This will be here third solo museum exhibition.
Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
For ten years, Los Angeles artist Alex Prager has staged imaginary scenes for her camera—dream worlds in Technicolor, rife with tension and melodramatic fictions. Deftly blending archetypes from post-war America, her images have re-enacted and burlesqued media portrayals of women, drawing from classic Hollywood movies, fashion advertising, and icons of documentary photography. Face in the Crowd, Prager’s first solo museum show in the United States, presents her latest body of work by the same title.
Richard Serra walks us through his largest permanent installation Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Bilbao
He was not real impressed with the interior design of one of the most famous art museums on the planet…
“The architecture is a conceit, meaning that it’s tectonically untrue. I thought I would just take all that junk and dump it right in here as a some sort of institutional critique”
via http://youtu.be/iRMvqOwtFno
I love this site. It just might be one of the best photo history web sites on line that is not a museum. It’s a work in progress of blood, sweat and tears but progressing beautifully.
“Luminous-Lint is an online scholarly non-commercial resource that has been constructed collaboratively over the last eight years to share information on the history of photography worldwide. Over 2,300 people, estates and institutions have provided information: the website is robust, highly interconnected, and has over 10 million page views a year.”
via
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/home/
Yes world wide web you have to pay to play…
Photographer Awarded $1.6 Million Dollars for Copyright Infringement
Andrew Paul Leonard is a professional photographer who specializes in creating images of microscopic subject matter using a scanning electron microscope (“SEM”). In 1995, Leonard created photographs of human bone marrow stem cells.
Stemtech Health Services is a direct sales company that markets and sells nutrition supplements on its own and through independent distributors. Leonard filed suit against Stemtech in 2008 for direct copyright infringement for ”using, copying, and displaying” his photos on websites, in publications, and in video presentations and for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement for display of his photos on websites of various distributors of Stemtech’s products.
Because Leonard did not register the copyrights to his photos until after the infringements at issue started, he wasn’t eligible for statutory damages. However, after 5 long years of litigation, a jury awarded Leonard $1.6 million dollars in actual damages on October 11, 2013. Congrats to Leonard for protecting his copyrights!