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Alex Prager Exhibition at the Corcoran

November 23, 2013 — Leave a comment

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

November 23, 2013–March 9, 2014
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.
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One of the Best Photo History Web Sites

November 19, 2013 — Leave a comment

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.”

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http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/home/

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Vik Muniz Talks About Making His Wonderful Art

November 10, 2013 — Leave a comment

Vik Muniz Talks About Making His Wonderful Art in this both poignant and hysterical TedTalk. His art making brings a very rare thing to experiencing art: Pure Joy….

 

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Photography Business: Kings Without Kingdoms

November 7, 2013 — Leave a comment

Photography Business: Kings Without Kingdoms

Paul Melcher works for Stipple as a VP of Business Development.  He writes a blog called, Thoughts of a Bohemian. A Bohemian he is far from but he has been in the photo industry for years and knows of what he speaks.  In your Photography Business are you now one of the Kings without  Kingdoms?

Today, after the arrivals of the corporates who dumped images at fixed pricing and the rise of non professional photography, the walls have fallen. For good. Forever. However, most continue to believe that this is a passing storm and that all will return to normal ( at least what they think is normal). Some continue to believe that without their content, businesses cannot function. Some even take a very condescending attitude about it. As if they were sitting on a throne, ignoring the fact that their kingdom is no more.

http://blog.melchersystem.com/2013/10/24/kings-without-kingdoms/

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Robert Adams Interview

November 4, 2013 — Leave a comment

The great photographer Robert Adams has become famous for documenting the American West. He reflects on the art world and what it means to make pictures today.

 

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