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Shop Window
September 24, 2004 By
Taking pictures of shop windows can be a lazy form of street photography but sometimes they’re hard to resist – apples.
Hard Hat Zone
September 16, 2004 By
Last weekend I spent some time in the Malvern Hills taking terrible landscape pictures. Fortunately we also managed to squeeze in a day trip to Birmingham for some proper pictures of rubbish, building sites, etc., including this one.
Independent
September 13, 2004 By
I had a photo in The Independent on Friday (they don’t seem to cover art reviews on their web site, so no link). It was a picture of one of Paul Spooner’s Butcher’s Shops. There was also an article on this in last Sunday’s Observer (more info).
Lartigue
August 7, 2004 By
The Lartigue show at the Hayward is great. I really admire his playfulness and experimental spirit. The upstairs show, ‘About Face: Photography and the Death of the Portrait’, not only has a naff sub-title but also seems to get itself in a knot about the use of technology in photography, which they say is “challenging our perceptions of beauty and truth”.
At one point, the curators say we can no longer accept the idea of portraits being windows on the soul (who ever did?) and then alongside a series of red-eyed (from flash) teenagers, they claim the red eyes made them look like predators (or words to that effect). As if non-predatory people won’t have red eyes. They go on to say that the red-eye effect is a “technical glitch normally removed in printing”. Hilarious.
There are some interesting things in it but I recommend ignoring the interpretation boards. This is another of my “diCorcia without flashlight” pictures.
Crisps
July 5, 2004 By
Watching the New Shock of the New on Saturday, I was surprised and disappointed that Mr Hughes highlighted a spelling mistake in a Tracey Emin piece. Finishing on an extra ‘L’ in beautiful seemed more stupid than the spelling mistake to me and undercut his argument somewhat. Still, I’m looking forward to the re-run of the original series, which I haven’t seen since it was first shown.
In trying to work out the date of the first transmission, I came across this tragic tale. I’d assumed the stick was just old age.
This woman is eating Walker’s Crisps. Which reminds me to recommend this unusual book on London Walking.
Another Day
June 27, 2004 By
My one day per week teaching term has finished at Wimbledon School of Art so next week is the start of my summer and that extra day should make a difference to something. However, I am down to do a week long Photoshop course and five days in a row might cancel out the gain.
Pictures Taken on the Way to Somewhere Else
June 17, 2004 By
I used the Veriwide for some real work for the first time yesterday (shooting interiors). This was taken with the digital on the way home.
Ticket, Got a Ticket
May 20, 2004 By
Sorry this file is a bit big. The jpeg compression was really visible in the red.
I’ve also put a new stitched panorama here.
Water Carrier
May 3, 2004 By
For regular viewers, here is my current favourite pinhole pic from the recent batch. For non-regular viewers, sorry – you missed it – the pinhole page is here.