some beautiful book design work with a slant towards the typographical, from rietveld graduate ingeborg scheffers, her work may not look clear here (because of the messy way i’ve stuck it all together i guess) but it all looks much more logical and clear on her own site…
What really scares me with digital photography is the speed of it. I’m scared that in many places there might be a tendency to arrive somewhere and just shoot, because you are aware how fast the images are. you suddenly find them in a newspaper or a magazine before you have actually had a chance to think about what you’ve just seen. I think that there is a great danger that everything gets ridiculously fast. In most cases you don’t need that speed. I would prefer to wait a little while and to really understand.
In the aftermath of Abu Ghraib and the Tsunami, a cross-section of 32 photographers was invited in situ by the two artists into a Spartan, black painted studio, in order to capture their still portraits and video interviews. By isolating the photojournalists and placing them in front of their camera, Galic and Gredig reverse the asymmetrical power relationship between photographer and subject, and explore the self-perception of the photographers.
see the whole project here
i just noticed that the poster & publicity stuff for the annual dutch national book week has been made by mister parra this year… (starts 10th of may)
An artistic climate in which technological progression has forced photography to enter a (relatively) new phase of its development, namely the digital, the medium itself is faced with the possibility to re-evaluate its means and modes of production. Through self-critique and self-reflection it is possible for photography to do this. What is the medium-specific character of photography? Why do artists choose this medium and what forms of meaning can photography produce in a contemporary art context?
interesting sounding photo festival sugary photographs named after a quote by ‘august sander’ from late march in antwerp, belgium… oddly enough the website is very text based for a photo event, but the artists links provided a lot of new names for me… (many thanks to ‘anouk kruithof’ who sent me the link & is also taking part in the show)
my friend ‘andré thijssen’ is finally publishing his long-awaited book, in fact the idea is to make two: one edited by ‘erik kessels’ and one by himself, if you’re interested in pre-ordering a copy (or two) he’d love to hear from you…
