September 2011
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“Anybody with a cameraphone can produce them. While no one with any comprehension of the artistic and technical process would argue that it must be easy to create a good photograph, the ubiquity of photographs, and their accessibility, lead us to think that we are all experts at interpreting them. Images are so much a part of our lives that we take it for granted that we speak their...
August 2011
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“I need to work on the ideas, on the philosophy. Photographers need to get away from hyper-connectivity, and all this internet shit. It’s making the work all look the same . All these anxiety ridden photographers hustling for attention. Tweeting frivolously, talking about their shows, or what stupid blog they’ve appeared in. Oh, you have a Blurb book! You’re an amazing visionary! Destined for...
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“I have a pretty good idea of what the psycho opera is about but I wouldn’t dare try and put it into my clumsy words. I’m hoping to create an original live experience, it should feel like a psychedelic ride laced with catharsis. There is emotional cost to our narrative so we’re aiming to engage the audience, this piece isn’t aiming to be all about spectacle or...
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“Instagram isn’t fundamentally about filters. Sure, they make your crappy phonecam pics look better. But they’re the sideshow. The real joy of Instagram is in sharing. Instantly, everywhere, exactly how you want to. And Facebook, being Facebook, will screw that up—remember Places? Facebook won’t kill Instagram, but it could still spoil the fun. Who wants to see your...
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“I’m looking for something slightly different: scenes that are simultaneously more complex and minimalist, harder to read and mysterious. What I aspire to (but usually fail to achieve, I might add) is to make a photograph that could be considered transformative. An image whose content, though rooted in reality, appears at first glance to be completely out of context with the “normal”...
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WatchCamera Evolution (by timrice/photo)
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“Push-button, auto-post-production now makes it difficult, if not impossible to...”
– Instagram, Hipstamatic and the mobile photography movement - Telegraph
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Janine Gordon's copyright infringement suit...
“Plaintiff’s apparent theory of infringement would assert copyright interests in virtually any figure with outstretched arms, any interracial kiss, or any nude female torso. Such a conception of copyright law has no basis in statute, case law, or common sense, and its application would serve to undermine rather than promote the most basic forms of artistic expression. One might have...
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