February 2008
15 posts
“Design and the Elastic Mind” at the MOMA →
benjamin donalson on Not taking a photograph
Reflecting on pictures not made is when photography has its closest relation to film in my imagination. I can play these un-photographed moments back with stunning clarity if, at that moment I was thinking to myself “this is something that should be worthy of making a picture of”. At these very particular moments, my attention seems greater than any paid at the time of studying something as I...
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“Photographs are great hyperbolists, capable of convincing us that, with the...”
– Sarah Karnasiewicz
THE STYLE PRESS →
Consuming And Producing Culture by Dzifa Benson →
Can the consumption of pop culture corrupt ‘high’ art, and therefore spoil whatever ‘true’ culture I may aspire to in my writing?
Vik Muniz: Art with wire, thread, sugar,... →
Vik Muniz delights in subverting the expected. He creates images from wire, thread, sugar, chocolate, even dust and clouds that simultaneously comment on art and are art. In a charming talk, he describes how growing up in Brazil turned him into a trickster, and shows lots of his work — gorgeous photographs and constructions filled with mischievous spirit.
