Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

If, like me, you follow the world of music and rely on websites such as NPR’s All Songs Considered (among many others) to find new artists, albums and sounds, you may know of Bob Boilen, the show/site’s host.  Now we … Continue reading →

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

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.  

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

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 →

Some of the most engaging paintings that have stuck with me from childhood have been those by Edward Hopper.  His “Nighthawks” was the first that I saw at about ten years of age, and is surely his most widely known. Photographer … Continue reading →

Woodkid (aka Yoann Lemoine) just released this video homage to the work of William Gedney, with a remix of a Max Richter track (as Max Richter is one of my very favorite composers, I will be talking more about this on … Continue reading →

My old photog sidekick Bill turns me on to this collection of photographs presented by The Atlantic.

More on this story and some pics  — also see recent (March 14) posting on Yeager