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Monday Essential Photography Reading- New Topographics

Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape © Lewis Baltz / from LACMA Lewis Baltz (United States, b. 1945). “South Corner, Riccar America Company, 3184 Pullman, Costa Mesa,” from the series “New Industrial Parks,” 1974. Gelatin silver print; 6 x 9 inches. LACMA traces photography’s New Topographics movement -News Article from the LA Times If you are [...]

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Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives

Exhibition on at the Wellcome Collection- 26 November 2009-6 April 2010. I am really looking forward to this – scientific photography from the 1900s is fascinating. With hindsight its easy to ask”what were they thinking?”, but a lot of these ideas have stuck around in modern times and contribute to the way we see identity. This [...]

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Black and White Photographs From Old Times

A favorite of mine are boxing photographs and old photographs of strange things. So I was delighted to have been sent this link, because it is both.  Back in the days I wrote my dissertation on boxing photographs, and I will have lots to say on the subject, one day. But not today. There are [...]

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