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Mar 17, 2010 – I just got an email from someone complaining how the images on this blog got so small. In fact, the images on the individual pages are now actually larger - but to see/read them you need to click on the individual posts on the front page. The images are only smaller on the front page, which serves as the portal to all the contents.

General Photography

A Conversation with Michael Schäfer

Mar 17, 2010 – Images are in the news - not just literally, but also as a topic themselves. In a day and age where image manipulation has become very simple to do, hardly a day goes by without yet another “scandal” about some manipulated image somewhere. As I indicated on this site before, I think without a proper understanding how images work this situation will not change. Introducing very unspecific - if not unrealistic - rules about the amount of manipulation that is acceptable totally misses the source of the problem. When Michael Schäfer sent me the link to his new work, I thought talking with him about his images and what they mean might be a good idea. Of course, here we have an artist, not a news photographer; but I see a lot of his work as a good way to start investigating how images work and how they are being used. Find the conversation over at Conscientious Extended.

General Photography

The road to publishing pt. 2

Mar 17, 2010 – Shawn Records talks to Richard Renaldi about book publishing.

Contemporary German Photography

Hanna Witte

Mar 17, 2010 – When linking to Hanna Witte’s Nacht.Leben [“Night Life”], Peter Feldhaus noted that the work looked “very clean.” And he’s right, things are a bit too slick, a bit too commercial looking for my taste, but the series is nice nevertheless.

Various

Meet the Re-Design Mastermind: Tim Gasperak

Mar 16, 2010 – I mentioned earlier that the re-design of this website would have been impossible without Tim Gasperak, so I want to use this opportunity to introduce you to Tim and his work. (more)

General Culture

“Driveby culture and the endless search for wow”

Mar 16, 2010 – My friend Mark sent me the link to an article called Driveby culture and the endless search for wow. I think I want to say a few things about this, because, in part, it is related to what I often hear about photography online. (more)

General Culture, General Photography

Nieman Reports Spring 2010: Visual Journalism

Mar 16, 2010 – The Spring 2010 edition of Nieman Reports focuses on “Visual Journalism: Fresh Approaches and New Business Strategies for the Multimedia Age” - photojournalism in the age of the internet. As a contributor I’m in very illustrious company. The articles are all online, have a peek!

Contemporary Photographers

Gayle Chong Kwan

Mar 16, 2010 – Gayle Chong Kwan is another artist to have re-done Caspar David Friedrich’ The Sea of Ice (also see Hiroyuki Masuyama). Yes, this is cheese. (thanks, Sara!)

General Photography

A Conversation with Bill Hunt

Mar 15, 2010 – The Houston Center for Photography (HCP) is currently showing RE: groups - American Photographs Before 1950, selected from W.M. Hunt´s Collection Blind Pirate. HCP approached me about doing an interview with Bill for the current edition of SPOT Magazine, and of course I was thrilled about the idea. The outline was to produce “a 1,000 word dialogue on the subject,” and at the end of the day, we only overshot the target by 500%. The current edition of SPOT Magazine contains an abridged version of the conversation, you can find the full piece on Conscientious Extended.

Contemporary German Photography

Andrea Engelke

Mar 15, 2010 – Andrea Engelke’s Ohrenbetäubende Stille [deafening silence] portrays people suffering from chronic pain.

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Conscientious Extended

Longer articles and interviews about fine-art photography and extended interviews with its leading practitioners.

A Conversation with Michael Schäfer

Images are in the news - not just literally, but also as a topic themselves. In a day and age where image manipulation has become very simple to do, hardly a day goes by without yet another “scandal” about some manipulated image somewhere. As I indicated on this site before, I think without a proper understanding how images work, this situation will not change. Introducing very unspecific - if not unrealistic - rules about the amount of manipulation that is acceptable totally misses the source of the problem. When Michael Schäfer sent me the link to his new work, I thought talking with him about his images and what they mean might be a good idea. Of course, here we have an artist, not a news photographer; but I see a lot of his work as a good way to start investigating how images work and how they are being used. (more)

By Joerg Colberg  |  Mar 17, 2010

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