“When I first started exhibiting these photographs, the reaction was not very … welcoming. Very few people liked them. But it’s funny if I think about it now. People would say, “What do you mean it’s a photograph of a photograph? What are you talking about?” What gave them a problem, I think, was that they couldn’t understand what the actual object was. It wasn’t like a collage. The literalness of the actual, physical object was disorienting. And the thing was, it looked like a photograph because it was a photograph.”
What a smart guy.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
August Stringberg's Celestographs
From Cabinet Magazine. The phrase "chamical naturalism" really struck a chord with me.
The experiments involved quite simply placing his photographic plates on a window sill or perhaps directly on the ground (sometimes, he tells us, already lying in the developing bath) and letting them be exposed to the starry sky.
This sounds like very traditional idealistic symbolism. But what is remarkable, and what makes these images so "modern," is that they also concrete examples of a kind of chemical naturalism (as in the work of Polke, Kiefer, and many other recent artists). Strindberg insisted that art should try to "imitate […] nature's way of creating," and in these celestographs the image and the world have approached each other to the extent that they more or less merge. Whatever the coincidences were that created these pictures, the subject matter appears less as a photographic image than as a "work" by nature itself.
The experiments involved quite simply placing his photographic plates on a window sill or perhaps directly on the ground (sometimes, he tells us, already lying in the developing bath) and letting them be exposed to the starry sky.
This sounds like very traditional idealistic symbolism. But what is remarkable, and what makes these images so "modern," is that they also concrete examples of a kind of chemical naturalism (as in the work of Polke, Kiefer, and many other recent artists). Strindberg insisted that art should try to "imitate […] nature's way of creating," and in these celestographs the image and the world have approached each other to the extent that they more or less merge. Whatever the coincidences were that created these pictures, the subject matter appears less as a photographic image than as a "work" by nature itself.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Henry Holmes Smith
I believe this last image is a dye transfer print. I need to obtain more of these images but am having trouble finding many. Some of the work is cameraless images made during the bauhaus era that include corn syrup. Which is a really good idea.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Jason Lazarus
I realize that it's so not cool to upload things that were literally JUST posted on I Heart Photograph. But these are amazing. They are photographs of the late Robert Heineken's ashes. What a great idea! I need to make sure that my remains are utilized in a photographic process. Someone needs to promise me this much. here.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Book Videos!
We are in a wonderful world where you can find video tutorials for just about anything online!
Basic Zine
Here is Kyle Van Horn's website from his zine class at mica, which includes downloadable templates for making the same basic zines that we made for the first week of class. The readings are all great too, if you're interested.
Pamphlet Stitch
Japanese Stab Binding
This video shows a more advanced structure than you were taught in class. it enables you to tie the knot on the inside of the book so that it is not showing on the outside.
This one is same as the one above but only showing the binding part of the process itself.
Sewing Signatures Together/Kettle Stitch
Fastforward to about three minutes into this one, she is just rambling forever in the beginning.
Coptic Binding
Perfect Binding
How to make your own book cloth
Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.
Basic Zine
Here is Kyle Van Horn's website from his zine class at mica, which includes downloadable templates for making the same basic zines that we made for the first week of class. The readings are all great too, if you're interested.
Pamphlet Stitch
how to make a book. from jtgualtieri on Vimeo.
Japanese Stab Binding
DIY Japanese Stab Stitch Binding from CuriousDoodles on Vimeo.
This video shows a more advanced structure than you were taught in class. it enables you to tie the knot on the inside of the book so that it is not showing on the outside.
Japanese Stab Binding 4-hole from Rose Newton on Vimeo.
This one is same as the one above but only showing the binding part of the process itself.
Sewing Signatures Together/Kettle Stitch
Fastforward to about three minutes into this one, she is just rambling forever in the beginning.
Coptic Binding
Perfect Binding
Book Binding: How To Perfect Bind from Andy Hirsch on Vimeo.
How to make your own book cloth
Make your own book cloth from Anna Hawthorne on Vimeo.
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