Weblogs: May 2008 Archives

I updated my "blogroll" a little, so if you haven't seen the following blogs you might want to check them out: Boston Photography Focus, Dawoud Bey's blog, digressions, Hee Jin Kang's blog, Nina Corvallo's blog, photographylot, uncommons, and the we can't paint blog.

This article is extremely interesting for a large variety of reasons, one of which is that it is very well and intelligently written and honest. It's maybe the most useful and detailed discussion of comments on blogs I have seen in ages, with the money quote being "The real danger confronting criticism on the web is that, in the name of 'anti-elitism' and 'the voice of the people', real dissent (which looks elitist because it is rare) will be drowned out by posturing mobs."

This found over at bloggy: "Due to our previous coverage of 'photography not allowed' policies, blogger and artist Mark Barry forwarded an email he just received from 303 Gallery regarding 2 images on Flickr from his set from the 2006 Armory Show. [...] 'this is simon at 303 gallery. i noticed you had an image of Maureen Gallace's work up on your flickr page - please be aware that 303 Gallery owns the copyright to the work and all public display of images, including web content. if you could kindly remove this image from your page, it would be most appreciated.'" Seems like some galleries are working very hard on making sure their artists won't get unnecessary publicity.