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Tim Carpenter
Christmas is hard to photograph
I've been doing an Instagram takeover for Photobook Melbourne (@photobookmelbourne for those on the app) this week from my folks' home in central Illinois, and I've learned a couple things: 1. Instagram takeovers are stressful. At least for a guy who's never done any sort of assignment work, never had to produce images with any
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Tim Carpenter
Recommended reading: Sally Eauclaire
About ten years ago, I came across a book at Powell’s in Portland, Oregon, and know I was going to buy it based on the cover. It was called American Independents: Eighteen Color Photographers and there was a photograph by Larry Babis (whom I didn’t know of then, and am still not very familiar) on
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Tim Carpenter
No ideas but in things
A couple weeks ago, after reading a short Mark Steinmetz essay on Time’s Lightbox blog, I immediately posted it to the Facebook, with the comment “totally with steinmetz on this one (as shall surprise exactly no one).” The piece is titled “Photography at MoMA: Has Photo-Based Art Become Too Dominant?” – and somewhat inaccurately subtitled
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Tim Carpenter
In praise of short photobooks
When I first became aware of the recent release of Bruce Davidson’s Los Angeles 1964 through an online article, I was intrigued by a few sample pictures, and I sort of imagined a bricklike physical object housing a vast trove of a master’s unpublished archive. So when I saw it at the Strand one day,
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Tim Carpenter
The darkness that art combats
I sat down to write my first blog post for the Camera Club intending to pursue an entirely nontopical subject, as is my custom. But first I had to check the New York Times website, as is also my custom when I open my laptop. I get nervous whenever the Times uses that very largest
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Patricia Silva
Day in Ellis Island, 1951: Erika Stone Portfolio
Erika Stone doesn’t remember the exact day but in 1951 the adventurous photographer spent a day at Ellis Island. A German immigrant whose father was held at Ellis Island briefly, before he moved the family to New York in 1936, Stone didn’t photograph Ellis Island with the gaze of a passerby, but with the awareness
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Patricia Silva
Summer Seeing: 10 Must-See Photos in September
As mentioned in my first post, this summer I joined Baxter St at CCNY to present a monthly selection of ten not-to-be missed photographs in New York City. Observing how social movements shape themselves around photography is often rewarding study. This list presents several works linked to modern movements supported by visual shape shifting: Soviet
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Patricia Silva
Lower East Sides: Elsewheres Around the Corner
Lorenzo Masnah and Alex Seel, Entre La Guardia y El Dorado, 2015. Installation at XY Atelier Gallery. Every summer, many expect the art world to hibernate, in cool temperature-controlled repose, remerging with a roar of high sales in the fall season. And every year, I stumble upon some fantastic independent shows in New York's
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Patricia Silva
IM Heung-soon: “Reincarnation”
The dual-channel projection begins with a female figure looking out to sea. From the first moments of the video, the viewer is aware that the artist has placed the audience between two points of dialogue, and our body is not passive in the space. Viewers shift attention from one wall to the other, keeping up