Photography News: Pinhole, Bacon, Urbex, Restraint, Pinball, Rock!
Downtown SF (pinhole) — by Richard Sintchak
- Tim Connor’s article on Flickr & Style (via Musings) is more interesting and on point than the New York Times Magazine article it responds to.
- Heather Morton, Ask an Art Buyer, on self promotion (via The Business of Photography)
- 50 ways to use bacon (including the stunning new condiment, Bacon Salt)
- 16 abandoned and decaying hotels (via Andy Frazer)
- Tony Fouhse on the barriers of shooting 4×5. I happened to read Tony’s post after watching a documentary film about Matthew Barney called No Restraint
. Barney’s drawing restraint work is about creating art within the context of self-imposed conditions. An interesting parallel to shooting large format. Regarding Mr. Barney, I’ve never seen an artist push any medium into a realm with such a singular, abstract language that’s beyond definition, influence and perhaps comprehension. An excerpt from the Cremaster Cycle called The Order
- Speaking of modern geniuses, here’s a short interview with author Steve Erickson, one of the most important, underrated fiction writers of our age.
- Pinball rules! (via painter Dan Fontes)
- Rant of the week goes to Nicolai at Photon Detector for Lomographic Society continues to suck
- Krautrock meets free jazz/improv/skronk in the music of Oakland’s Oaxacan
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Noel:
Hey Joe,
Basim pointed me to this posting because he mentioned that I had shot one of the hotels that is evidently in the “16 abandoned hotels” link above, the only problem being that the link doesn’t seem to work.
2 May 2008, 8:46 amjoe:
Thanks, Noel. I’ve updated the link.
2 May 2008, 9:00 amNoel:
Looks like the server may have just been down for a bit; it’s back now.
2 May 2008, 9:01 amThe Hard Way « Musings on Photography:
[...] via Joe Reifer’s Ramblings about Photography, I found this very thought provoking post on Tony Fouhse’s tonyfoto/drool. And here I must [...]
2 May 2008, 3:11 pmBrad:
Very cool shot, Richard!
2 May 2008, 8:29 pm