I’ve been making pictures with my telephone.

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Dayton Castleman’s “Bread Bird” is “an inquiry as to whether birds would eat bread in the shape of their own. In this case, Chicago pigeons would not.”

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Hot nuts, beef puffs, and boots full of Glühwein, all available under the stoic, watchful eye (eyes?) of a 50 ft. tall abstract bird / aardvark / baboon head. Christmastime is here.

Photo by me, December [ READ MORE ... ]

I wrote a bit about Penelope Umbrico way-back-when (Penelope Umbrico at Boston’s PRC, Jan. 2008) and, well, her work just as interesting and unconventional today. She’ll be in Chicago this Thursday for a lecture; I’ll see [ READ MORE ... ]

The latest issue of Chicago-based art n’ culture magazine Proximity is making the rounds. Their fifth installment is their “Photography Issue“, and features plenty of excellent intellectual tug-of-war regarding the still image.

Selections from the series Maricopa County Fair, Phoenix, Arizona, 1980, by Barbara Crane

It’s an interesting time for the history of photography. The “greats” are entrenched in the textbooks, but It feels like we’re searching for new [ READ MORE ... ]