writing and translation
My contribution to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Photography Theory has the working title “Out of Language: Photographing as Translating”. The essay emphasizes Flusser’s conviction about communication making worlds–generating meaning–by various means, e.g. drawing, speech,...
I recently reviewed this book (in Source: The Photographic Review 87). The information–both the images and the slight details about the photographers–is more than sufficient to provoke a rethinking of vision itself. I would...
“Prepared” by having been in a slow oven overnight, the loaf that appears in Charlie Sinclair’s fine image Burning Bread is perhaps nearly incredible but not quite. In fact it’s perfectly “straight” photography: the bread has become...
Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth are three very prominent contemporary art photographers. All three were students of Berndt and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, all work in series. They often–not always–work...
Photographs have some effect on “family,” but I seriously doubt whether they actually consolidate or construct it. The idea comes first, I think, and the photographs shore it up. Whatever elusive idea actually ties...
I’ve just written a review of Drone: the Automated Image, to appear in Source Magazine (Belfast). The book is a catalogue of the biennial exhibition Mois de la Photo Montreal, 2013. But this is...