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19 Sep 09
Luc Sante on Robert Frank’s The Americans - WSJ.com
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Anyway, it is difficult for us to see "The Americans" through the eyes of 1959, because its influence has been so pervasive, persistent and deep that it is impossible to think of the photography of at least the ensuing 30 or 40 years without reference to it. Our vision, collectively, has been permanently altered by it, and this is true even for people who've never seen it but have been exposed to its style and outlook at second or third remove. The book may only have sold 1,000 copies initially, but word got around nevertheless. By the time of its second edition, in 1968, its influence was already widespread. Frank's work at the very least gave courage and inspiration to like-minded younger colleagues such as Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Danny Lyon, and Bruce Davidson, while it was formative for the following generation. There isn't a documentary photographer who came of age in the 1970s and '80s who didn't absorb the book and reflect its lessons in some way, and that includes such disparate figures as Stephen Shore, Sylvia Plachy, Eugene Ri
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15 Sep 09
Introduction to Software Testing, Testing Tutorials, Testing Tools, Testing Softwares, Testing Jobs, Testing Techniques
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the process of questioning a product in order to evaluate it",
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the process of questioning a product in order to evaluate it",
05 Jul 09
Tech change created new photography style
Until the late 1970s, street photography meant trying to make a composition very quickly of strangers in public spaces. But Wall said at about that time, he was among a new generation of artists that included German artist Andreas Gursky in Dusseldorf who were working with photography but were interested in taking the medium somewhere new.
What Hernandez did technically was change from using a hand-held 35 mm camera to a large format camera on a tripod. This both slowed down the way Hernandez took street photographs and opened up his work, Wall said.
"If you look at these pictures which he made at bus stops in Los Angeles, first of all you notice the massive detail," Wall said in an interview as he walked through the Hernandez exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
"The whole picture tends to open up: Things far away can be seen because of the way the lens delivers information.
"One of the things about large- format photography is to replicate a kind of calm, contemplative vision of the world.
"It is not necessarily an instantaneous grasp of something. You try to deliver the whole space."
08 Jun 09
Finding kitsch's inner beauty
"Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations," said Harold Rosenberg, the great art critic. Milan Kundera argued, "No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition." And they were writing before the appearance of "reality" television, which repackages kitschy old conventions of popular drama as public competition, bringing to "real" people the humiliation and cruelty traditionally endured by imaginary losers in mass-culture fiction
- Apart from the fact that kitsch is a product of mass culture of he modern times there is the need in modern democratic societies to serve up constant kitsch to its ever hungry populace whose immediate cultural needs need to be satisfied before they turn into unhealthy expressions of anger and resentment against the ruling elite .In India calendar art has played an important role in satisfying the need for "beauty" but surprisingly some fine art has emerged out of plain kitsch too .We too often find some really fine specimens of art in rural and traditional painting styles although in their mass production form they turn out to be plain kitsche.The afternoon "soaps" on the glitzy T.V. channels are thinly disguised attempts to pass off as profound social commentaries but basically they are kitsche catering to the bored housewife category. - adukuri on 2009-06-08
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"Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations," said Harold Rosenberg, the great art critic. Milan Kundera argued, "No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition." And they were writing before the appearance of "reality" television, which repackages kitschy old conventions of popular drama as public competition, bringing to "real" people the humiliation and cruelty traditionally endured by imaginary losers in mass-culture fiction
02 Jun 09
A Baby Asleep After Pain by D.H. Lawrence - Read Print
A Baby Asleep After Pain
by D.H. Lawrence
As a drenched, drowned bee
Hangs numb and heavy from a bending flower,
So clings to me
My baby, her brown hair brushed with wet tears
And laid against her cheek;
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