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Snap Judgment: Blake Fitch at Exposure Compensation
I have three quick responses to Miguel Garcia-Guzman’s post on Blake Fitch and a quick trip to her site: 1. Fitch’s site is one of the worst examples of bloated flash interface I’ve ever encountered....
View ArticleSnap Judgment: Rediscovering Film: Get Over it
I like film. In fact, I love film. And lately, I shoot more film than digital. But it seems like a lot of folks are investing film with an absurd mystical machismo, as though by shooting film you can...
View ArticleSnap Judgment: All White People look Alike
Oh, snap. Read the damn thing. But at the end of the day, after we've gone to bed and have nothing better to do than think about the pictures we have taken, we will realise that the significant glances...
View ArticleSnap Judgment: Harvey Pekar’s version of Studs Terkel’s Working
Note: This isn’t photographic, but I think it’s sufficiently relevant since some of the problems are problems familiar to photography. I came across this today while browsing at Moe’s. I was...
View ArticleSnap Judgment: The Photobook on Eugene Richards’s The Blue Room.
The photographs included in this review remind me in principle on the old Buddhist practice of meditating on dead bodies…This passage describes the effect well: Richard’s photographs contain empty...
View ArticleConscientious on Supanit Riansrivilai in Poland
I’m aware of the Black Snapper site, but so far haven’t noticed too much there that’s really grabbed my attention — may be my fault for not looking closely enough. However, Joerg Colberg points to a an...
View ArticleI don’t like pictures with new cars in them
“I don’t like pictures with new cars in them” Or something similar was said by a student showing his work in a class critique in my first semester of photography at the University of Nebraska. This...
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This is why people hate photographers
I stumbled across this on flickr today. It’s a pretty excellent example of the very worst possible way to approach street photography. Homeless people do not exist for the amusement of people who...
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