Monthly Archives: December 2014

Finding Vivian

Here’s a documentary to add to your list of best movies of 2014.  This is the Finding Vivian Maier trailer:

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A Holiday Card From Bill (2014)

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Tumblr’s Picks

Hit this link to see Tumblr’s 2014 Photographers to Watch from its 2014 Tumblr Year in Review.  I’m still trying to work out my favorites.  Some good stuff to be seen.  

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Instagram Pilots

Quartz (qz.com)  puts together a piece on Instagram photos shot from the cockpit, violating all sorts of rules but giving us some extraordinary views.

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Is It Art: Followup

Friend John tracks down Jones’ previous rather contradictory assertion to which I had alluded in the previous post: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/jan/10/photography-art-of-our-time

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Is It Art?

Art critic Jonathan Jones, writing this week  in The Guardian, cites the $6.5 million sale of Peter Lik’s photograph of an Arizona canyon as proof that photography is not art. Perhaps we should recall that the controversial Mr. Jones once … Continue reading

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Ivi, Backlit

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