Amusement

The George Eastman House and ICP have teamed up to create an online museum called Photo Muse that puts the archives of both online. The site is geared toward students and researchers and leans more toward the historical than the contemporary, but what could be better than to “finger” your way through the George Eastman [...]

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Photo Follies

On the plane back from Paris, I needed something to help me make it through the 11 hour flight so I picked up a Paul Auster book, Brooklyn Follies, and sped through it, reasonably entertained. Only when I finished did I look more closely at the paperback cover and realize it was an Evelyn Hofer [...]

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URL Pic(k)

Discovered this website a while back and added it to my list of interesting collections: Covering Photography. The site’s creator, Karl Baden, teaches photography at Boston College and along the way started cataloging book jacket designs that use fine art photography. He decided to document all this on the Web so he scanned [...]

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Cold Spell

The Koch Gallery in San Francisco had a show featuring Belgian photographer Carl de Keyser earlier this year.
De Keyzer became a full member of the Magnum agency in 1994 and is known for his documentary work. Part of the show was dedicated to his “Zona” series which records his journey through Siberia. Visiting several [...]

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JPG

The folks at JPG magazine organized a show at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery called “Breakthrough: An Amateur Photography Revolution.”
Six Bay Area curators put together “themes” of ten or so photos. Chuck Mobley curated a set of “stolen” photos snapped on the sly by stealthy museum goers. I like Marshall Astor’s shot of [...]

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Dying Breed

While at RoseGallery, I wander into the back room and spot a print leaning against the wall, perched atop a file. “That’s Evelyn Hofer,” the gallery owner offers. The photo is a lustrous shot of a leather banquette in a diner, “Little Italy, Mulberry Street, New York, 1965.” The surface seems to absorb [...]

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Facades

RoseGallery at Bergamot Station in LA is now showing German photographer, Gotz Diergarten. A student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Diergarten has created his own “typologies,” only they’re not water towers, factories or silos, but facades.

 
Over and over again the front doors and windows of middle class shops and homes repeat in a [...]

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