“This, that, and the other” from around the web for the week of September 29th through October 3rd, 2008.

• Photographs by William Eggleston | Fine Art Auction | Christie’s
  Just about every important photograph that William Eggleston has ever made will be on the auction block at Christie’s on October 13th, with the marquee item being a complete, 75 dye-transfer print “Los Alamos, 1965-74″ portfolio (estimate: $350,000-$550,000). The good news for us poor shlubs? In November, the Whitney (admission: a measly $15) will open a huge retrospective of Eggleston’s work. (via The Year in Pictures.)
• Five In Focus: What Photographers See
  Cinematography and still photographs have a complicated relationship, but their reciprocal influence in undeniable. Film In Focus asked Gregory Crewdson, Larry Sultan, Lauren Greenfield, and Amy Stein to list five films that have influenced their work, and there are some interesting picks (in addition to the wealth of Todd Haynes and David Lynch).
• artforum.com / in print
  This month’s Artforum cover looks great – a grid of chairs! (Thanks for the heads up, Jason!)

Citing “paranoia about the Republican National Convention”, the CBS Outdoor advertising company has removed five Minneapolis/St. Paul billboards featuring Suzanne Opton’s “Soldiers” project.

I’ve never been fond of Opton’s project, but to see it [ READ MORE ... ]

Jason Polan (who I’ve noted a few times previously) continues his string of witty, touching, and well-crafted pieces with his new $13 bill, featuring our little-remembered thirteenth president Millard Fillmore.

The bill is a [ READ MORE ... ]

Those chairs still have legs … my photo project “Every Chair at the Visual Studies Workshop” was featured on the Kodak blog “A Thousand Words“.

Check out the post to read a short interview [ READ MORE ... ]

Stephen Shore took this photograph thirty-eight years ago today at the Lookout Hotel in Ogunquit, Maine.

An inevitable “where are they now” at the intersection of art photography vs. photojournalism, propaganda vs. document: Ty Ziegel and Renee Kline, the couple featured in Nina Berman’s powerful portrait “Marine Wedding”, were divorced in January, [ READ MORE ... ]

Jason Polan (of The Every Piece of Art in the Museum of Modern Art Book fame) is looking for submissions for a project he’s doing for the always-amazing ESOPUS magazine.

He wants to [ READ MORE ... ]