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March 7, 2011
On Shadow as a hybrid blog/magazine primarily run by Nicholas Calcott and is updated once a week or so with original projects, essays, and interviews. It was originally the blog arm of the publisher 12th Press.
In the post On Web Form and Photography it is argued that the way that websites themselves are designed really defines what we take away from them.This should be clear to anyone who reads a photo blog:
Organized chronologically, photo blogs are set up in a way that once a post disappears off the front page, it is essentially lost forever. There are some advantages to this method of consumption – for example, the reader sees a lot of different photographers’ work. But this work is usually presented only in the form of one or a handful of images. These images are frequently disconnected and have only a fragmentary relationship to a larger body of work: Strong individual images are encouraged, and concepts that are easy to understand in the relatively brief space of the blog form.
The critical failing of "photoblogs in contrast to Flickr is their inherent lack of connectedness. Secondly, the problem is that the form of the weblog encourages strong images as eye candy for the readers consumption.
Hence the different web form of On Shadow that makes great use of the archives.
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