2019/12/31

MOMA, and a Daguerreotype



Lee Ann Daffner (the photography conservator at MoMA) taking care of the Girault de Prangey daguerreotype;that is now on view on the 5th Floor at the Museum. Due to its light sensitivity, this needs to be swapped out within the next few weeks.
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2019/12/22

Focus is overrated!


I was out having lunch with friends, recently. The weather was not conducive to one’s health. The smoke from the bushfires raging in NSW had drifted south. A blanket of smoke covered Melbourne. We had hoped to have a drink in a little rooftop bar in Carlton. It was closed due to weather! But I did mange to fire off a couple of pictures. Sadly I was too quick for the camera’s focussing function to activate, so, the pictures are all out of focus. Still perhaps it amplifies the mood!

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2019/12/21

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2019/12/16

Australian Photo History

This weekend was prolific in terms of my online reading. I’m still enjoying my RSS newsfeed  feed. Dr. James McCardle has written an interesting piece on the history of Australian art photography on his blog. I had a brief exchange with Dr. McCardle which  led me to a Wikipedia entry he has written on the history of the photographers gallery and workshop. A space I was involved in heavily in the 1990s. Dr. McCardle's article also  lead to an MA thesis on the history of the ACP, another important photographic institution in the history of Australian photography.

All in all a busy Sunday of reading.

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2019/12/15

An accidental thesis on waste and pollution – British Journal of Photography

Another interesting photobook?

David Brandon Geeting’s latest book, Neighbourhood Stroll,  is an object of contradictions. The photographs are alluring, but they depict junk and debris; the design is colourful and bright, but the book itself is weighty; and although the project began as a casual afternoon activity, it developed into an “accidental thesis” on the critical issue of pollution and the climate crisis. 


An accidental thesis on waste and pollution – British Journal of Photography

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2019/12/14

Before and After Photographs of Industrial Towns | PDN Photo of the Day

Creatively life has hit a bit of a quiet place right now.
For a brand range of reasons I have moved away from mainstream social media and am using an RSS new reader to engage with the wider world of photography and blogs.
This link turned up in my feed this morning and is the kind of work that really resonates with me. It is by John Davies and is a book of work about the changing urban  landscape spanning over a decade of work by him.

Before and After Photographs of Industrial Towns | PDN Photo of the Day

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