February 2012
19 posts
January 2012
51 posts
Nobody Smiles in Tintypes
“Exposure times are long by today’s standards, and many of her sitters have made use of a hidden metal posing stand, its cold extensions holding the head steady as the seconds tick interminably by, counted off by the photographer. These technical details matter. They help explain how these photographs come to look the way they do (why, for example, nobody smiles).”
Geoffrey Batchen on...
Money in Photography
These sentiments are common, but I’ve never seen them stated with so much bite and humour.
“As the mass money dries up, there is a trend to aspire to be closer to the Versailles salon of the Sun King. From riding on the back of a Pentagon war machine subsidy, picking up grants from uber-hedge fund mega-predators or corporate lobby foundation fronts, becoming the in-house photographer...
