http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/ looking for something firm in a world of chaotic flux en-us cam.riley@gmail.com Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:34:29 +0930 http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/07/sugimotos-seasc.html Via designboom: Hiroshi Sugimoto is having a retrospective that includes his seascapes. Like Kenna's work there is a simplicity to these photographs but without the stark and strong contrasts that dominate Kenna's compositions. When working in a public space Sugimoto chose to use the technology of the camera to shroud... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/07/michael-kennas.html Micheal Kenna explores a meditative and silent world in black and white. His pictures are absent humanity but contain the urban, suburban and industrial components of human society. The landscapes are very contemplative in what are often very crowded areas. Kenna's work is in contrast to Alexey Titarenko's which are... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/07/photography-as.html In his Towards a Philosophy of Photography Vilém Flusser describes a world fundamentally changed by the invention of the "technical image" and the mechanisms that support and define industrialized modern culture. For him, two major events divide history: the first was the invention of writing (supplanting images); the second was... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/07/dead-tree-1.html It's a case of walking backwards isn't it, when it comes to saving the River Murray. They--irrigators, river communities and state governments, are still looking back to the golden times, and hoping that they will return. History turns in circles apparently. What goes round comes round as it were. dead... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/07/rock-island-ben.html I have posted this image of the Franklin River in South West Tasmania before in relation to wilderness photography in Tasmania. This time it is the poster used by the Wilderness Society in its successful political campaign to save the Franklin River from being damed by the Hydro Electric Commission.... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/07/trifid-nebula.html The centre of Trifid Nebula Daniel Lopez (Observatorio del Teide)... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/mars-robot.html The task of the Mars Exploration Rovers, which were launched to Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, are to search for answers about the history of water on Mars. The indications are that Mars had a wet past. The twin rovers landed on Mars in January 2004, 45... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/photographing-t.html Alexey Titarenko uses the technology of the camera to trace the passage of time in a public space; visually capturing the dynamics of mass human movement through an area. The resulting imagery is quite stunning. The ghostly aspect of the images is impossible to avoid and gives the photos a... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/joni-mitchell.html I watched a DVD of Joni Mitchell earlier this evening. It was Mitchell Joni-A Woman Of Heart And Mind: A Life Story. Like most commentary it concentrated on the early singer songwriter period rather than the experimental artist. This track is from Shine, her latest album: Mitchell would have to... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/australian-phot-1.html Ingeborg Tyssen (1945 - 2002), the Sydney based photographer, is often acknowledged as one of Australia's leading art photographers. Along with Carol Jerrems and others she became part of the canon of Australian art photography. We seemed to lost contact with the canon for some reason. Does digital represent a... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/photo-angst.html Photographer harassment has become a hot topic as photographers are increasingly being treated as perverts and terrorists. It is not clear that you would be able to take this kind of work today. It is much safer to do this. Or this. Basically though, if you are on public property,... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/can-anyone-make.html Are we going to see the Internet remain a uniquely open space in which people can create and borrow and learn? Will it break down the elitism in the arts? Or will it become just like television and be all carved up with advertising, where everybody’s directed here or there... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/arts-critical-e.html Our desperation to break the spell of instrumental economic reason-- eg., by turning to beauty as the unexchangebale or non-commodifiable ---can lead us to fetishise art. We want to believe that art has power that points toward a better world by modelling a non-instrumental relationship with a thing. This desire... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/movement-in-the.html I spent part of Sunday afternoon walking around my old photography ground in the industrial areas of Bowden and Mile End. Bowden was where I had a photographic studio and where I taught myself photography with a 5 X 7 view camera. My old photographic stomping ground was Bowden, Mile... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/bowden-was-wher.html Romanticism in the nineteenth century was a protest against the dark satanic mills of industrial modernity, utilitarian calculation and market capitalism conducted in the name of beauty, or wilderness. This understanding of Romanticism is what shaped my photography when I was teaching myself to shoot black and white photos with...