Dirty Dancing. Copyright 2010: Knut Skjærven. I needed to re-read Roland Barthes‘ Camera Lucida from 1980. I use an English translation in a print from 2000. The numbers you find in brackets re… more →
barebones communicationwrote 1 day ago: © Dave Wise © Fox Talbot, drawing made with Wollaston’s Camera Lucida, Italy, 1833 “One … more →
wrote 1 day ago: To follow-up with my earlier post on David Hockney and his studies of the camera lucida, here he is … more →
wrote 1 day ago: “I have always wanted to remonstrate with my moods; not to justify them; still less to fill th … more →
wrote 4 days ago: Well this has become a pretty unevenful blog hasn’t it? After all the promises I made myself I … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Making Pictures David Hockney has been a favorite artist of mine for over a decade now. I love how h … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: 1936 Marx’s analysis of capitalist production was prognostic: that it would exploit the prolet … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Let’s Kickstart this…well, more like, let’s jump on board on this juggernaut of a … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: from http://www.forgottenartsupplies.com © Lou Brooks When I was a grad student I asked my teacher M … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: The NeoLucida’s eyepiece is pointed toward the subject and extended over the paper on a goose- … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Prologs. Uz Daugavas iepēdotais „Liene, es Tevi mīlu- Daniels”, tiek aizputināts jau nākamajā pēcpus … more →
wrote 1 month ago: [S]cientific circumstance (the discovery that silver halogens were sensitive to light) made it possi … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Gunning For Tamar – Camera Lucida Out now, via Alcopop! Shooting from the hip, and slingin’ wi … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Roland Barthes writes that photographers are ‘agents of death’. Photographs are inherently violent b … more →
wrote 1 month ago: A new body of work that has been created with the use of found letters and inkjet transfers. The tec … more →
wrote 2 months ago: http://www.hulltruck.co.uk/whats-on?action=view&id=639 Punctum at Hull Truck My one man show sho … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I am currently doing my documentary photography. I am shooting black and white portraits on topic … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Oxford boys Gunning For Tamar make a welcome return with their latest EP ‘Camera Lucida’. After the … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I’ll admit that I spent the first several pages of the extract from Barthes’ 1980 book o … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I’m going to give a disclaimer right here, right now: This post might very well go to the dar … more →