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Alan Taylor recently investigated where Google Maps’ Street View coverage ends — “whether blocked by geographic features, international borders, or simply the lack of any further road” — and compiled a photographic look at the ends of the road. (via kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products)
Nelli Palomäki, Becky at 23 - see my new article about Palomäki’s portraiture
It all comes down to that urge to fascism — maybe a big word to use for art, but I think the right word — it comes down to that urge to fascism to know what’s best for people, to know that some people are of the best and some people are of the worst; the urge to separate the good from the bad and to praise oneself; to decide what covers on what books people ought to read, what songs people ought to be moved by, what art they ought to make, an urge that makes art into a set of laws that take away your freedom rather than a kind of activity that creates freedom or reveals it. It all comes down to the notion that, in the end, there is a social explanation for art, which is to say an explanation of what kind of art you should be ashamed of and what kind of art you should be proud of. It’s the reduction of the mystery of art, where it comes from, where it goes…Greil Marcus
I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography,” he said. “Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.Richard Misrach
Spencer Finch
CLOUD STUDY, CUMULUS HUMILIS I, II & III, 2010
Scotch tape on paper, Study of the opacity and translucency of a cloud, 21” x 29” (Each)
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Chinese photographer Ziang Xiao photographs strange moments on the Chinese coast.
See more images of the infamous face-kini that took the Chinese coast by storm last summer on NPR’s The Two Way.
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