Link Love: 3/12/2010
- Need some DIY camera inspiration? Check out the cardboard cameras and ethereal photographs of Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý at the International Center of Photography exhibition online or on the ground, if you’re in NYC.
- Artist Daniel Ingroff has created mosaicism.org, which takes newspaper, magazine clippings, and other ephemera collected by the Los Angeles Public Library and presents it in a completely mesmerizing and de-contextualized mosaic. [via i heart photograph]
- The girl that inspired it all. In anticipation of the new Alice in Wonderland movie, check out stories and a photo of the original Alice muse at NPR. [via Effie Kapsalis, SPI]
- Colin Pantall turned me on to this Guardian article that discusses recent scientific studies that examine why people often look so glum in photographs. Apparently, Prada print models don’t need to smile, unlike their Walmart counterparts, because consumers perceive that smiling = submission = lower status!
- Haha. A new iPhone app called Is This Art? helps you understand if what you’re looking at is art by responding to your snapshots of questionable objects with snappy one-liners such as, “Sister Wendy would not find God in this, therefore THIS IS NOT ART.” [via C-MONSTER.net]
- Sometimes repetitive subject matter in photojournalism is powerful and necessary. Pete Brook at Prison Photography highlights a powerful group of photographs of victims of acid attacks and their important role in advocacy efforts.
- I love Eudora Welty’s prose, but I had no idea she began her creative career as a photographer. The Smithsonian Magazine sheds a light:
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Thank you for the link Catherine. Unanimously people have said that it is an important issue with important images but they hate looking at them ... which in itself is an important issue! And, I suppose, it is evidence of the photograph acting as an interlocutor in profound emotional transactions, no? Perhaps it is just guilt? Whichever, the feelings are strong.
Pete-and thank you for your always-thoughtful posts! I know a lot of people have been thinking about photography, implication, guilt, and voyeurism with all of the Haiti photos and World Press photos swirling around in the past few months. I found the images you presented extremely sad to see, but not as difficult to look at as other sorts of "victim" photos that victimize their subjects. I didn't feel like a superficial voyeur looking at them. These photos struck me because even without caption or text, the women in the photos (for the most part) look me back in the face with a strong gaze. They are powerful women who seem to be saying, to me, "look at this and bear witness," and they are saying this to audiences who might not otherwise know about their plight.
Thank you for the wonderful resources. I going to have to download the i-phone app. It sounds like interesting.
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