http://blog.writtenbylight.com Andrew Jackson / Portfolio @ www.writtenbylight.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:50:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Credit: Lee Friedlander/Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Extract from Whitney Museum: "Driving across most of the country’s fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the side view mirror, rear view mirror, the wind shield, and the side windows as picture ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=338 Following extract from and copyright: After Photography Somehow I don’t think that anyone really knows what journalism is anymore. We do know what the journalistic industry used to be - various institutions telling us what is happening in the world. We have, increasingly, rejected that approach, finding the system manipulative, commercial, ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=341 http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=326 Copyright Lucia Colella: Designer, Educator. Qoute by Aaron Siskind. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=298 I was recently asked to produce some 'street photography' of the area that I live in by the artist Scott Farlow who is undertaking a residency in the area. He's giving residents in key locations a small compact digital camera and asking them to document aspects of life in ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=303 I was fascinated by Lixin Fan's film Up The Yangtze (if you're British this is a belated double entendre alert) and I'm looking forward to seeing his next, 'Last train home'. They are both sad, moving and evocative indictments of how humanity (principally in the guise of the poor) ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=331 I was made aware of this documentary recently on Carlagirl Photo. More information here, here and here. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=335 Word of the day: 'Photo-onanism' - a narcissistic-like mental state where an individual needs to take a thousand photographs of themselves - either pulling the same expression or a range of other contorted ones - to convince themselves and perhaps others that they exist. Images are often self-portraits taken ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=333 I met Zwelethu Mthethwaonce in a shopping mall - I said hello and he nodded - his life was not changed by this meeting. Nonetheless, the short clips are an interesting series of films that explores the notions of representation, spatial politics and as Enwezor says an exploration of ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=334 I'm standing at a bus stop waiting for the 120; just waiting and watching a figure in black walking along Sandon Road on her way towards the red light area on the corner of Gillott and Hagley Road. Her pale white legs stretching up from the tops of her knee ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=332 Tenderly http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=324 A Change Is Gonna Come Night Beat: Remastered http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=329 The photo, above, by Alex Brandon for the Times-Picayune, was taken on September 4, 2005. The NYT caption reads: Lance Madison being arrested on Sept. 4, 2005, after a police shooting in New ORleans that killed two people, including Mr. Madison’s brother, Ronald. It's five years since Katrina blew. ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=328 "Elderly man - Montgomery, Alabama (1960 - 69) copyright Jim Peppler - found on These Americans. These Americans contains found & vernacular photographs from the American Suburb X Collection. Also, select archives from the Library of Congress and the 1970's EPA project entitled "Documerica". http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=322 Photo copyright Jérémie Egry found @ ithoughtiwasalone http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=320 Maggie Harrsen All photographs copyright Maggie Harrsen http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=318 Is this you? "Click here." http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=311 I recently posted a link to Jodi Bieber's images in Afghanistan the following text examines the prevailing moral ambiguities of Bieber's Time Magazine front cover - and content - that seem to in a Capra-esque fashion appear to tell the viewer 'why we [should] fight'. Extract taken from and ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=309 Follow up to the Restrepo post: "…the question as to what future societies will go to war for is almost irrelevant. It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to attain this objective or that. In fact, the ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=301 Click on the photo below. This is not an order. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=300 Extract taken from NPR: "Photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington thought he knew what to expect when he arrived in Afghanistan to make a documentary film. He figured his team "would be walking around the mountains, we would be drinking cups of tea with elders, we'd occasionally get shot at, and it'd ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=296 "Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home was broadcast on BBC1 in 1966 as part of their Play for today dramas. At the time it would cause a public outcry and would highlight the issues of homelessness and the ways in which the welfare system was failing. Forty-four years after Cathy come ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=295 Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf’s Artist Talk at the Aperture Foundation in October 2008 (found via Guessing the light). Erwin Olaf Artist's Talk, Edited Excerpt from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=293 Armed with only a Wacom tablet, less-than-mediocre drawing skills and an acute sense of smell, professional photographer Ted Sabarese guesses how individual images were lit by other photographers and then sketches corresponding lighting diagrams. It's what you always wanted to know but didn't know who to ask. Here. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=292 Uncle Bob Vs. a professional here. I'm not a wedding photographer but perhaps the argument is a generic one in commercial photography as a whole. Whilst I've argued many of the same points - it just seems a little bit desperate when other people say it. You pays your money (or ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=291 Jazz (We've Got) (Re-Recording) The Jam http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=290 Breaks http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=289 Saturday Come Slow by Massive Attack taken from the album Heligoland http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=287 TFP In the on-line photography community the acronym TFP is used to stand in for time for prints. It is an arrangement between, usually amateur models and photographers, wishing to develop their portfolios, wherein the model’s time is bartered in return for photographs from the shoot by the photographer. ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=280 Babylon by Don McLean http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=276 Images from Afghanistan by Jodi Bieber. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=275 The Herald newspaper used a cartoon recently as part of their sports coverage to describe the recent Plymouth Argyle victory over Southampton Football Club. Southampton recently banned photographers from covering its games - outside of their in-house photographer - in the hope of generating income for the club. Good ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=274 Standing at Euston Station today, whilst looking up at the giant television screen that overhangs the concourse, a familiar face appeared on a Sky News broadcast. It was the face of my first photography lecturer Tim Joplin. When I was slacking off and thinking about dropping out ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=266 I’m holding the hand of my father and looking at the oxygen tube in his nose. On the beds around him figures with strange swollen heads and half shaved off hair lay whilst they make incoherent sounds to relatives, who in turn, make small child-like sounds back to them. ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=264 The familiar and repetitive narrative of war, from the jingoistic excitement to the flag draped coffins coming home and the ensuing resentments and questions of futility. The almost cloned narrative arc of the young idealistic photojournalist - going off to find fame and fortune and prizes through war ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=260 Perhaps I'm not saying it's ethically wrong to embed yourself with troops firing live bullets into unarmed live bodies; but it didn't quite sit right watching the feeds of journalists today. Especially as one journalist I watched on TV didn't seem to voice much disquiet about what the soldiers ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=258 I watched Tarsem Singh's 'The Fall ' recently and found it visually stunning. Its imagery is perfectly combined, below, with the haunting soundtrack of Massive Attack's 'Paradise Circus'. Enjoy. Paradise Circus http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=257 Over 100 billion photographs are taken each year; many of them on one of the one billion mobile phones that engulf our world. Nearly everyone in the developed world has access, and increasingly in the developing, to the apparatus to create and capture their own photographs. In that ... http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=256 Perhaps we all need a change in the political climate for us all to see our own homelands in a new light. Below, Nina Berman discusses her Homeland of America in a post 9-11 climate. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=255 I've recently uploaded two works (The Golden Road and Nature/Nurture) onto my website. Both works are a continuation of my 'experiments' with the use of image and text. http://blog.writtenbylight.com/?p=254