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A.E. Benenson
What is That Camera Doing There?
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] NY Times rendering, 2011, original caption "FUTURE IS HERE Through a 3-D avatar, you could always appear awake."[/caption] Two weeks ago, Kodak, the company that drove film photography for 131-years, filed for chapter 11 in order to restructure as a digital printing specialist. This week the Columbia Journalism school received
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A.E. Benenson
Augmented Reality
Even though I'm not an artist, I conceive of my projects like artworks: the content needs to reflect intelligently on its form, not pretend it doesn't exist. From the beginning of my work here, I decided that the point was not just to write about topics relevant to a Camera Club on a blog but
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A.E. Benenson
Post Media Res: What the history of photography can teach us about digital piracy
[caption id="attachment_1342" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Google Image search for Sherrie Levine's "After Walker Evans""][/caption] Today the Internet has joined together to give us all a crash course in participatory politics. With two belligerent "anti-piracy" bills, SOPA and PIPA, waiting in the wings of Congress, a number of websites have turned their home pages into soapboxes
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A.E. Benenson
What Comes First
Silver nitrates, the Brownie, Kodachrome film, the Polaroid, digital CCDs– the history of photography finds itself everywhere reduced to technological determinism: here comes some new technology, what can we make of it? If we include social, political, and philosophical developments in the history of the medium, they are mentioned as effects rather than causes. The
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harlan erskine
The Camera Club’s Annual Dinners
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] Alfred Stieglitz, The Glow of Night — New York, Photogravure: Multiple Color, 1897. Photographed in 1897 Manhattan, this nighttime view shows the Savoy Hotel with a queue of carriages along a rain-slicked Fifth Ave. The nighttime “glow” effect in this plate is achieved in the printing process.[/caption] This time of year, there are many holiday events. Every era
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harlan erskine
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Recap
[caption id="attachment_714" align="alignnone" width="600"] Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, Art Positions park-like-lounge area[/caption] Over the past ten years, I have attended Art Basel in Miami. Each year is a little different with an evolving program of events. The city of Miami has grown up along with this fair. There are so many events to attend
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harlan erskine
The Economics of Art Photography
[caption id="attachment_1243" align="alignnone" width="553" caption="Andreas Gursky, Rhine II, 1999, C-print mounted to plexiglass, 73 × 143 inches."][/caption] A few weeks ago the Andreas Gursky print, Rhine II, was auctioned for $4.3 million, breaking the record previously held by Cindy Sherman. Guardian Article: The world's most expensive photographs - in pictures. I always admired Rhine II. I
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harlan erskine
Cycles of the new and the old, part 2
NYPL: Image ID: G89F391_216F The Upper Yosemite Falls, 1600 feet, from Eagle Point Trail. [Watkins' New Series, no.3145.] (1879-1890) The Carleton Watkins stereograph was taken around the time of the founding of the Camera Club in 1884. Watkins' journey to the falls was arduous. He and his assistants were literally carrying hundreds of pounds of
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harlan erskine
Openings and Events this week – November 1 – 6
Simen Johan, Untitled #159, From the series Until the Kingdom Comes, C-Print, 2010. Opening at Yossi Milo Gallery on Thursday, Nov. 3. Tuesday, November 1 Performance: Jen DeNike "The Hostess Never Lies" curated by Anne Apparu Vogt Gallery 526 W 26 street, suite 911, 11am-6pm Lecture: "Surfland: Joni Sternbach" Center for Alternative Photography 36