Pedro Meyer’s touching and elegiac remembrance of his parents has been reissued in various digital versions, twenty years after its initial publication as a CD-ROM. “I Photograph To Remember” reminds me of John Berger’s precious collection of essays in ‘Hold Everything Dear’, where, in talking about his friend Juan Muñoz and poet Nazim Hikmet, he [...]
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Shane Darwent
Shane Darwent, ‘Rush In Truck Bed’ Photographer Shane Darwent, traveling, as far as I can gather, and making some rich work. Check out his blog. As he puts it in one recent entry, “3 bicycles, 2 fellas, one sweet lady, 3,750 miles, bunch o flats, 12 states, 11 weeks, 10 bucks to my name for [...]
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i want to read all the news
Martin John Callahan: I Want To See All Of The News From Today Currently a teaching fellow at the Slade School of Art in London, Callahan’s sparse electronic work touches the rawer nerve-tips of our media-immersed selves. This current piece is typical of his approach. “Borges’ map, described in “On Exactitude in Science”, imagines an [...]
allan jones
Allan Jones. 1992. platinum-palladium print. 8 x 10 in My friend, Allan Jones came by to visit today. I made this portrait of him sixteen years ago while he was still a student at Sewanee. He is still thinking. And painting. Thanks for swinging by Allan! And for the gift of this wonderful painting. Allan Jones: [...]
josef albers
Cover of book entitled, “Poems and Drawings,” by Josef Albers. 1958 Albers, Josef, Pps Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University More results from my browsing of online image archives, this one from Yale. Exquisite.
image libraries
Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka: A fireman, looking left, holding the standard for district six From Series: Firemen’s Standards of All Great Districts (Kaku daiku matoi kagami: Dai ichi daiku, rokuban gumi) I am becoming fascinated by the amount of work that is being made available via online image archives! Here is another rich source, in this case of Japanese [...]
robin and edwin muir
Robin Gillanders, Sewanee, TN 1994 8×10 in contact print Robin, author of one of the finest ‘how-to’ books on photographic portraiture, opens an exhibition of his latest work, “Highland Journey: In the Spirit of Edwin Muir” at the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery tomorrow, July 19. Hope you can make it over there if in the [...]
are we serious artists or are we about to have a baby?
Shakerag workshops are almost over, and Pradip and Luca express serious concerns about the fabrication of the paradigm of the mind and the creation of the artist class.
jennifer knowles-mcquistion
jennifer knowles-mcquistion: poem in prose, 2 Jennifer is an artist based in Nashville, TN and is finishing up her studies at Watkins College of Art. Thanks for the work, of which there is much more on her web site. I met her while taking a workshop with Chris Bucklow at Shakerag.
christine remy – like boiling water
christine remy, “stanley”, 12” X 88” Acrylic paint, plastic resin on wood panel My friend and artist Christine Remy has just posted a lot of her recent work on a new web site. An accomplished calligrapher, she has combined her interests in movement, space, and highly nuanced palettes with electronic technologies to render a series [...]
