John Berger - Ways of Seeing

A television series "Ways of seeing" in 1972 for BBC by John Berger is a must to see, whether you are interested in photography of some other art. Check as well the other parts and episodes.

*Found link on this article at Thinking About Art blog.

Rick Oliver

It is interesting, that sometimes you can "feel" the photographs and Rick Oliver is one of those photographers, where is possible to "hear" the music.

*Found this photograph while browsing through Jörg M Colberg blog.

Edit

Foud this quote at Mrs. Deane blog, where the following note was written:

"I will say there are a couple basic things I have learned from WIP that are important for entries, especially online.
EDIT, EDIT, EDIT!!!!!!!!
Then edit again. Some very basic rules:
If an image is in your edit because just because you personally love it, dump it. If it is an image you always have to explain to people, dump it. If you have it in because you think it is important for content, dump it. If you have to keep trying to find a way to make it “work in the edit,” dump it. "

Colors magazine

I like 66th issue of Color magazine a lot (Best Wishes).

Mental pictures are like images

Interesting test made by Venderbilt University showing that mental imagery dictates what you see later. Well, in my opinion the number of participants is a bit small (what actually mean more than 11 participants?). Article starts with:

"There's a big debate about what happens in our brain when we imagine visual items, like pictures, for example. Some people think our brains perceive visual images pictorially, using a part of the brain known for processing simple visual features.
Other people think our brains perceive visual stimuli symbolically, using the region of the brain known for processing words and language."

Where is a photographer in this story? To project and present him self, wheather brains perceive visual immagery pictorially or prerceive visual stimuly symbolically (or is it both?). And where is viewer in this story? To implement him self, wheather perceiving visual immagery pictorial or perceiving visual stimuly symbolically (or is it both?).

Well, it is just a thought.

*Found link on this article at State of the Art blog.

Wilhelm Heiliger

Clean geometry and pure colors, made by Wilhelm Heiliger makes positive impression on viewer.

1930-40s in Color

It is interesting to see quality photographs from above mentioned era in color. How much does contemporary photography differs from the one produced in that time? Check Alfred T. Palmer's photographs.

pixchannel

Short interviews with great photographers.

Ralph Gibson

Ralph Gibson is one of the last musketeers from 20th century photography. Interested in photography or no, he is simply a man who you want to meet. I am just back from Chicago, where he held a one week workshop on photographing the nude figure. It was great. Is this all I need? I don't think so, but I got the best and the most solid foundation on how to build my life, that is more or less including photography, in the future. Read also interviews, one and two.

Slideshow? No, thank you.

I don’t see a reason for seeing slideshows. If I wish leaf through photographs faster, I will click faster (and of course the opposite for slower). I want to be in charge on browsing speed. It is a photography, not a movie, and if it is a good one, it will take some time for me to absorb it and to enjoy watching it. This is also one of the reasons, why I prefer paper. There is no negative surprises, as you can get it on screen (blink, zoom,..). I don't like pages, where slideshows starts immediately, like Magnum, for example (I am not talking about the quality of photographs).

Promocards

Photographer promo cards and what to think about when sending them. Check out for some different styles, here are the samples.

*Found this at Rob Haggart's weblog.

Maura Biava

She is more an artis performer, according to her own words. Her site is under construction, to find something else on web is also almost impossible. Short clip with interview is here, a very small gallery 1 & 2, short biography is here.

Franco Fontana

Very colorful with graphic touch. You can see some of his work here, here, or here.

Francesco Jodice

Francesco Jodice is a Professor of Theory and practice of the technological image, Faculty of Design and Art, University of Bolzano, Italy. Presented at Photo Paris 2007, as exhibitor from Italy, that was guest of honor coutry this year. Photographs are under "what we want" folder, video instalation is inside "the secret traces" and "100 storie" and film is at "the morocco affair" folder. Check the other folders for sure (hikikomori for example).

Denis Hopper

Večini znan kot igralec, malo manj znano dejstvo pa je, da se je uveljavil tudi kot fotograf in slikar.
Nekaj njegovih del si je mogoče ogledati na acegallery. Več je možno prebrati v 51 izdaji B&W magazine.