Archive for the ‘Aperture’ Category
Deep in the Archive
Ulrich Baer ‘Deep in the Archive’, Aperture, 193 (Winter 2008), 54–59 p.54 ‘In the silence of the archive, researchers try and grasp the texture of lives from the remains left here, on this sheet, in this box, on this clean table, and now for their eyes only.’ ‘By definition, archives always collect a bit too [...]
Filed under: Aperture, Archive & Photography, Christian Boltanski, Essays, Ilán Lieberman, Melancholy/Death & Photography, Ulrich Baer, Zoe Leonard | Leave a Comment
The Art of the American Snapshot
Andy Grundberg ‘The Art of the American Snapshot’, Aperture, 190 (Spring 2008), 10–11 [On snapshots:] ‘Once ripped from their family-album contexts they are on the whole anonymous, banal, repetitive, trite.’ ‘So much for progressivism: the snapshot was born beautiful [...] only to grow into a hyperactive but physically unremarkable adulthood. Perhaps it was the mass-media’s [...]
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Click here to disappear
David Levi Strauss ‘Click here to disappear: Some thoughts on Images and Democracy’, Aperture, 190 (Spring 2008), 20 ‘To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.’ ‘Images online are both more ephemeral (in form) and substantial (in number) than ever. We spend more time collecting and sorting images, but less [...]
Filed under: Analogue - Digital, Aperture, David Levi Strauss, Digital Impermanence, Essays | Leave a Comment
{rowan lear} findings- “Lots of barbed wire entanglements” : tiny portrait of young woman
- Children playing cricket
- Squinting boy holding dog with lead
- Woman standing in kitchen, hiding behind wooden boardImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Two girls and two boys, standing beside field of cowsImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Woman in dress standing by building at end of driveway
- Two prints of portrait of boy with shirt and jacket
- Young girl with hat and doll sitting on chair in garden
- Landscape with tree nursery/orchard
- Man playing on ship deck under lifeboat with woman reading
- Two (twin?) boys in matching clothes standing in field
- Young man with hat and pipe standing against corrugated metal wall
- Island from sea
- Man with hat on donkey
- People standing in archway
- Man, woman and two boys paddling in water
- Two men on side street with steps
- Two women standing with twin boys and carrying girl
- Man and three women sitting on grass under trees
- Village, trees and valley
- {writings}
- Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else 22 April 2012
- TANT 4 March 2012
- Let us tell the stories of the dead 21 January 2012
- This is a photograph 10 October 2011
- My brother’s photograph 22 April 2010
- Not my mother’s album 2 February 2010
