Archive for April, 2008
Please be patient… one more bird photography posting
Audrey Corregan was the winner of this year’s Hyères photography festival.
Trunk-cams
Via Boing boing and the Daily Mail, cameras affixed to elephant trunks:
John Downer
Reminds me of Sam Easterson’s work, which thoroughly mesmerized me a few years ago at Mass MOCA’s Becoming Animal show:
For his series, Animal Vegetable Video, Sam Easterson attached micro-video cameras to the top of various animals’ heads and some plants. The viewer is presented with an awe-inspiring journey from the vantage point of an aardvark, chicken, wolf, water buffalo, tarantula or even a tumble weed. Through these videos the viewer is literally able to access the physical perspectives of these various animals/objects creating an awareness of the daily existence of these plants and animals. Easterson claims that these videos possess the ability to protect and preserve these species: “If you’re able to see from the perspective of these animals, you’re far less likely to harm them or their habitats.
Sam Easterson Chick Outfitted with Video Camera, video still, 2005
trapped in an elevator
Up and then Down: The Lives of Elevators… and corresponding mind-boggling surveillance camera observation of 41 hours spent trapped in an elevator:
Okay, Margot, time to start your own dead bird blog
Margot Miller
tintypes galore
Robb Kendrick Chase and Clay Sligar, Nevada
Today’s NYTimes has a piece on Robb Kendrick’s cowboy tintypes. I saw Joni Sternbach’s surfers briefly at FotoFest, and it is hard to understate how appealing the physical images are.
Joni Sternbach Surfers: 07.07.02 #7 Lily
And my own - technology incongruities and terrifying self-portrait:
sorry, Niepce?
Above leaf image has been the subject of photo-history buzz in the past few weeks… could it be a pre-Niepce, fixed photogram? An Image is a Mystery for Photo Detectives.
