Blog Profile / Philosophical Conversations
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| Archived Since: | March 17, 2008 | |
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Ian Macdonald NZ photographer
Ian Macdonald graduated from Elam, Auckland in 1975 majoring in photography. He has exhibited and been published consistently since and is known for his photography on New Zealand environmental issues. He ran Real Pictures Gallery during the 1980s and more recently the Matakana Pictures Gallery. Ian Macdonald Whale Stranding at...
Gerhard Richter: Cathedral Square, Milan
Cathedral Square, Milan is one of Gerhard Richter's largest figurative paintings. The work features the northern side of the cathedral square, onto which the shopping centre Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II faces. The façade of the 19th century Galleria covers a large area of the paintingâ??s left side. This is a...
Judith Crispin: familiarity and un-familiarity
Judith Crispin or Hsien-Ku...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Riding with Death
One of my favorites of Jean-Michelâ??s Baquiat's work. The background is more metallic, lighter, more spectral. Jean Michel Basquiat, Riding with death, 1988 This painting has been grounded with a dull, gray paint, a departure from the colorful backgrounds the artist typically employed. In the workâ??s center, a faceless figure...
Photography and the American Civil War
The US Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has an exhibition on Photography and the American Civil War. The warâ??its documentation, its soldiers, its battlefieldsâ??was the arena of the camera's debut in America. George N. Barnard, Destruction of Hood's Ordinance Train, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 1964 This...
Neil Pardington: The Vault
Neil Pardington's photograph Mammal Attic #1, Canterbury Museum, shows a room (barely) containing a taxidermied elephant with an ominous tear in its shoulder, and in front of it a shark â?? its fin visible behind a set of steel shelves. Neil Pardington, Mammal Attic #1, Canterbury Museum, 2007, Lambda/C-print, from...
wet-plate collodion process in photography
Sally Mannâ??s series â??Battlefieldsâ?? uses a wet-plate collodion process, as can be seen in the edges and streaks and cracked glass of the images. These pictures are of empty landscapes that refer back to the American civil war. This is a study of the grounds of Antietam, the site of...
life on the urban fringe
The Ministerial Advisory Committee for the Melbourne Metropolitan Strategy has published Melbourne - Lets talk about the future" and it raises the issues of two Melbournes: an inner core of opportunity and vibrancy, and a massive outer ring of relative disadvantage and exclusion. Roz Hansen, the chairperson of the Ministerial...
an emergent â??artisticâ? approach to architectural imaging
Alan Rapp in Is architectural photography art photography? at Critical Terrain refers to the contemporary photographer, Tim Griffith, to make his point that today both architecture and photography are in their own states of disarray and redefinition, making their current fusion especially fluxy. Tim Griffith, Ausstellung Babel Town in der...
Edward Weston: coastal studies
Remembering Edward Weston...
Leunig: autumn
I welcome autumn. We can say goodbye to the summer heat. It's been a hot summer across southern Australia. Leunig Autumn mean cooler temperatures and the start of the rain....
Paul Kenny: Lonbain Wall
Paul Kenny has photographed a stone wall near the ruined village of Lonbain, on the Applecross peninsula in Wester Ross in the Scottish highlands. The ruined village is a remnant of the clearances of the 1780's. Kenny says: Above the beach, on a plateau above the shoreline, is a sheepfold...
Joyce Evans: landscape
Joyce Evan's interpretation of the Australian landscape involves aâ??seeking out the beauty, synergy and the spiritual in the everydayâ??. Joyce Evans, Rain Dreaming, from Imaging the Spiritual, 1980-2010, Evans took up photography professionally after closing her Church Street gallery space in Melbourne in 1982....
the creative class
Geoff Mulgan in Is There a Creative Class? assesses the work of Richard Florida on the creative class and the creative economy. The assumption her eis the insight that the creative economy is continuing to grow in importance, and every city should have a serious strategy for growing its creative...
Alessandro Imbriaco: temporary autonomous zones
The Italian photographer Alessandro Imbriaco explored the idea of "temporary autonomous zones" in Italy in a five year project. Temporary autonomous zones in the 1980s referred to the often illegal makeshift communities that were being created in cities and remote rural areas by squatters, travellers and the various alternative communities...
The Denison Debates
Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society has been holding the Denison Debates and public lectures about Tasmania. Where does Tasmaniaâ??s future lie? Has Tasmania reached a â??tipping pointâ??, politically, economically and culturally? Is is an island of broken dreams for those on welfare, poor health and low educational qualifications....
Chris Cherry's photos of China's migrant workers
Chris Cherry, a photographer loosely based in Beijing, has undertaken a photographic project on China's migrant workers. Chris Cherry, Wang Jia Yi and Gao Tian Ci, Dalian to San Li Village, Anhui Province, 2011 Cherry's says that: Each year, millions upon millions [of migrant workers] untie themselves from the rhythms...
Fiona Pardington: still life
It's a lovely still life: Fiona Pardington, Piwakawaka Pied Fantail's nest with an egg. Rhipidura fulginosa AV10478 Stewart Island, November 1948 Otago Museum, 2006, Toned silver bromide fibre based paper It is such wonderful light....
the erosion of the culture of critical thinking
In Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide Henry A. Giroux says that under neo-liberalism the the culture of critical thinking has been slowly disappearing on U.S. campuses. The corporatization of schooling and the commodification of knowledge over the last few decades has...
D. Darian Smith: architecture
A photo by D. Darian Smith of a corner in my local neighbourhood when newspapers were a central part of everyday life. D. Darian Smith, south -west cnr King William and Gouger Streets, Adelaide, 1941 D. Darian Smith was an Adelaide photographer who worked from the 1930's to the 1970s....