Photographer Stefan Draschan‘s photographs of people examining artworks has been featured on numerous sites, but no matter how many times I encounter the hundreds of art-and-viewer connections, the work still continues to delight. He states,”I’m a voyeur and a hunter. I prefer to look for matches with old masters or old art in general, matches […]
Documentary
Norm Diamond: Doug’s Gym
“Doug’s Gym is a love story. It is an arrow to the heart.” – Cig Harvey, Photographer It’s always fascinating how photographers find their projects and where the internal motivation for their focus is culled from. Photographer Norm Diamond comes to photography after four decades considering mortality as a interventional radiologist. This remarkable perspective of […]
Michael Galinsky: The Decline of Mall Civilization
Today, we sandwich this post between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, one day that sends us to our local shopping centers for deep discounts, the other day that reflects the glued-to-screens behavior that has created the decline of in-store shopping. Michael Galinsky’s amazing chronicle of 1980’s experiential retail, The Decline of Mall Culture is now […]
Diane Meyer: Berlin
[The Wall’s] ghost, carefully stitched into place, haunts the modern scenes as a kind of floating metaphor for the existence of sharp cultural barriers that were once culturally delineated. – Curators Mia Diaglish and Lisa Woodward Artist Diane Meyer has a legacy of considering place, from examining the American West to how we navigate a […]
Robert Conrad: Memories of the Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall took place 30 years ago this month and when we step back to November 9th, 1989, the world witnessed “a pivotal event in history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterwards. An end to the Cold War […]
Greece Week: Giannis Manolis: The Hunter, The Woman and The Hut
In July I headed to the Athens Photo Festival (APhF) for the second year in a row. I was already thinking then about how to approach this “Greek week”. “Dutch week” last year had been a great ride (and the work and coordination required even grew my appreciation for Aline who does this every single […]