Category Archive: inspiration

When is a photobook not a photobook?

Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers’ Essays   Edited by Will Steacy Introduction by Lyle Rexer Paperback, 232 pages Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about moments that… Read More

Is Photography Over?

Given the nature of contemporary art practice, the condition of visual culture, the advent of new technologies, and many other factors, what is at stake today in seeing something as a photograph? What… Read More

”Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.” Andre Kertesz

       

Metachaos: Alessandro Bavari

Photographer Alessandro Bavari was born in Latina, a coastal town south of Rome, Italy, on april 1963. Grown up in an italo-french family, he was early attracted by artistic matters and decided to… Read More

Photographer Jeff Wall: ‘I begin by not photographing.’

   

Quantum Blink: Isabel M. Martinez

Photographer Isabel M. Martínez spent her formative years in Santiago de Chile and holds a BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile. In pursue of a graduate degree she ventured into Canada and earned an… Read More

Soliloquy: Jenny Lynn

Jenny Lynn is an accomplished photographic artist and designer, whose diverse range of work encompasses photographs, photograms, collage, and large-scale and dimensional installations. Her artwork is featured in many private, corporate, and museum… Read More

Time Transformations: Elliott Kaufman

Elliott Kaufman has worked as a professional photographer in New York since 1983; mostly within the architectural and design fields since the publication of his book American Diner in 1980 (Harper Collins, NY.).… Read More

VIDEO: An Image of Industrial Economy: Bernd and Hilla Becher

Photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher talk about their work, from Contacts Vol. 3, Portraits of Contemporary Photographers. Initiated by William Klein, 2000. Part 1 Part 2 Bernd and Hilla Becher were German artists… Read More

John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography

One of the most influential early advocators of the fine art photograph, no curatorial career (apart, perhaps, from that of Alfred Stieglitz) did more to elevate the status of photography in the early… Read More