Plume is a photographic exploration of Southeast Ohio and its unusually dense concentration of coal-fired power plants. The project serves as a follow-up to the work I made in 2007 in Appalachia, Removing Mountains, which focused on mountaintop removal, a particularly pervasive form of coal mining. Plume follows this coal up river to Ohio, where [...]
By Joe Scanlan (an additional post to follow soon…)
I’m reading Anthony Elms’ take on the Chicago art scene, which is definitely worth reading. I’m also simultaneously watching/swooning over this studio take of The Low Anthem’s “Charlie Darwin.” Low Anthem “Charle Darwin” from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.
Apparently the curators for the 2010 New York Photo Festival have been announced. I know I should be used to this, but the lack of diversity actually shocked me when I saw the line up. This is what helps drive photography’s reputation of being a parody of itself. Old White Guy Curator Vince Aletti Old [...]
1. Alec Soth Do you want me to pretend that I don’t feel like a little child on the way to an amusement park when I hear Alec Soth has a new body of work? Someone pick me up from Chicago and take me to Atlanta to view Black Line of Woods, his new body [...]
West Saint Paul, Minnesota, © TJ Proechel © Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan Here’s potentially the most eloquent sentence I’ve ever written on this blog: I like Ahorn Magazine a lot. Combining both an interest in defining how past greats influenced the art form with a look at contemporary practices, Ahorn has a little bit [...]
New image from Untitled (Baltimore), Daniel Shea. Daniel Shea wrote to let me know that he just updated his life with work from a new project titled Back From His Road Trip. He also expressed interest in letting the blogosphere know that many new pictures will be posted regularly to the photo collective Dreamboats’ website, [...]
As you may know, April’s Modern Painters is the photography issue. Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of the magazine. The writing is generally vague, uninspired, and “backstory” heavy (“This artist works in painting. His father was a painter. Let me tell you about a well-known historical fact regarding painting”). They also redesigned the magazine [...]
A book in the series Other People’s Photographs © Joachim Schmid Joachim Schmid, the sometimes interesting artist, is working on a not-so-interesting or ground-breaking project called Other People’s Photographs. Schmid is taking amateur photographers’ images off of their Flickr pages and recontextualizing them loosely by category. Essentially, he is creating another typology of the everyday. [...]
Late night print making. This a simple post dedicated to physical prints. Sometimes, after not having made a print for a couple of weeks, and subsequently getting sick of looking at images on a screen, a print, even a small one, can be the most amazing thing. Another great thing is sending prints to people, [...]
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