http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/ looking for something firm in a world of chaotic flux en-us thoughtfactory@internode.on.net Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:35:11 +0930 http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/02/japanese-photog-2.html Via Japan Exposures. Shintaro Sato is a photographer known for his iridescent images of Tokyo’s twilight taken with a Toyo 4 x 5 camera from the various 10th floor fire escapes that serve as his observation deck. He walks around during the daytime scouting locations to find a good location.... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/02/english-photogr-1.html Mark Edwards' recent landscapes around Bath and in East Anglia, which were made on an 8 x 10 inch field camera, were commissioned to accompany the Gainsborough landscape exhibition that was shown concurrently at the Holburne Museum. Mark Edwards, Bath, 2011 This rather drab landscape subverts the classic postcard view... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/02/helen-ennis-on-1.html Helen Ennis in her Australia and Photography says that the viewpoint in landscape photography in Australia has been almost exclusively European, as it has been the practice of settler Australia and the expression of a settler colonial culture. Anson Bros, Battery Rocks, Corra Lynn, Launceston, circa 1885, sepia toned Ennis... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/02/dave-rowe-carto.html This is a superb political cartoon about contemporary political events in Australia. David Rowe is one of Australia's best political cartoonists and Fairfax should be credited with allowing his work to be in the public domain and not hidden behind behind the Australian Financial Review's pay wall. David Rowe One... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/02/mike-key-queens.html I've been looking at my photos from my phototrip to Queenstown, Tasmania in 2011 to see what would work for large format (5x4) when I'm there next month. I've also been and doing a bit of research on the region as well as background to my phototrip, and I came... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/02/obesity-the-sur.html The 2007-08 National Health Survey (NHS) measured the height, weight, hip and waist circumference of respondents aged 5 years or more and found that 61.4% of the Australian population are either overweight or obese. outliers. Victoria had the lowest incidence of obesity, at 17.0% of the population, with South Australia... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/thomas-demand-m.html Thomas Demand is known for his large scale photographs that question the medium as a faithful record of reality in that he makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces. A residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles where he discovered... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/bill-leaks-dece.html The cartoon below is Bil Leak's interpretation of Aboriginal protests on Australia Day in Canberra in News Ltd's The Australian. It is part of an article by Henry Ergas entitled Enforcing one rule of law for all. Ergas argues that if conduct violates the law, we should expect those responsible... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/adelaide-modern-1.html My knowledge of Adelaide modernism is patchy, I regret to say. According to the art historians Kathleen Sauerbier was one of the first artists to respond to the southern coastal area in the Fleurieu Peninsula in a Modernist style. Her landscapes, with their limited use of colour, fluid line-work and... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/dutkiewicz-x-3.html Suzanne and I drove up to Willunga from Victor Harbor late this afternoon to attend the opening of an exhibition of recent paintings by the Dutkiewicz family: Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, Ludwik Dutkiewicz and Adam Dutkiewicz. Recent meaning done in the last 20 years. There was also the launch of the first... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/dighital-snaps.html I've started a Tumblr blog solely for my digital photographs. After dipping my toes into digital photography 3 years ago and using it consistently, I've come to the conclusion that not only are the results of digital photography as good as 35mm film, but that the ever improving digital technology... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/david-hockney-r.html The latest works in David Hockey: A Bigger Picture were made in the last eight years in the East Yorkshire Wolds near Hockney's Bridlington home. It is Hockney reinventing himself as a full-blooded landscape artist who highlights the importance of seeing and of observing and studying change. David Hockney, Woldgate... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/captain-beefhea-2.html A video of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band (Gary Lucas (guitar), Jeff Tepper (guitar), Rick Snyder (bass), Cliff Martinez (drums);) performing 'Ice Cream for Crow' from the album of the same name (1982). The clip was rejected by MTV USA as "too weird" upon release, now it is in... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/a-kodak-culture.html Kodak's decline has culminated in it recently filing for Chapter 11 protection; a decline many say resulted from Eastman Kodak Co's failure to reinvent itself in the digital age. Looking back from our digital world we can see how Kodak was able to define the mass market photography as the... http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2012/01/australian-colo.html I've started to read Philip Jones' Images of the Interior: Seven Central Australian Photographers Jones had previously published The Policeman's Eye, The Frontier Photography of Paul Foelsche (2005) The seven photographers discussed by Philip Jones in his Images of the Interior are Francis J. Gillen, Captain Samuel Albert White, George...