Rhizome: Black Hole of Vision: On Rune Peitersen's Saccadic Sightings
Black Hole of Vision: On Rune Peitersen's Saccadic Sightings |
By Vesna Madzoski on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 12:00 pm. |
Installation View of Rune Peitersen's "Saccadic Sightings: Einstein and Bohr" at Ellen de Bruijne Projects
If our eyes were to be turned into a camera, it would be a rather poor device. More precisely, it would not resemble a single-frame snapshot camera, but a video stream of a mostly blurred visual field with only spots of clarity. Our eyes move rapidly and continuously update the image in the brain, and it has been concluded that the brain, resembling a high-tech processor, cleans up the received input. Paradoxically, one of the functions of photography is to remind us of the impossibility of our eyes to perceive reality as a still image – as the saccadic scanning of our eyes show, there is nothing fixed or stable in nature. Matter is always in flux.
In his artistic practice, Rune Peitersen explores precisely this aspect of the visual apparatus through a research project he started two years ago. This summer, he presented the most recent series of his results in Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam, in a show entitled “Saccadic Sightings: Einstein and Bohr.” In a secluded room, one was able to indulge in the three main elements of the show: a short text on Einstein and Bohr, Observing Uncertainty – an enigmatic large photograph of a hallucinatory scene covered with a map of small printed squares, accompanied by Observer Effect - a series of smaller black photographs with dots of visual clarity representing each of the square from the large photograph. |
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CAA: Eadweard Muybridge: Feet Off the Ground
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He transformed photography and laid the foundations for motion pictures, but Eadweard Muybridge has always been dogged by controversy. His biographer, Rebecca Solnit, defends the great innovator against a new campaign of innuendos. This summer, 128 years after he was driven out of London in humiliation, Kingston upon Thames's most prodigal son and San Francisco's most extraordinary photographer gets his due with a big show of his photographs at Tate Britain. More
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The monthly online selection at VISAVISPHOTO:
VISAVIS PHOTO 
SEPTEMBER 2010 #72 The Roms, refugees and expelled
On the 6th of the month, 6 photographers, and 6 of their photos are presented online like 36 exposures on 1 roll of film with different ways to see.
The monthly online selection at VISAVISPHOTO has been featured since November 2004. As soon as the work of six photograhers working in the same theme are received, that theme will be exhibited in an upcoming VISAVISPHOTO. That is why the theme can not be announced in advance. If six of your photos have been selected, sometimes you will have to wait until the other five photographers are found. The index page of VISAVISPHOTO, shows the monthly selection of the 6 photographers. In the archives, you can review all the photographers who have been presented since 2004.
> http:/www.visavisphoto.com/archive_2007.html
Chris Verene: Family »
Documenting the lives of friends and family in a rural Midwest town, Chris Verene's photo book Family reveals the struggles faced by declining American communities.
A Brooklyn-based artist and musician, Verene has intimately photographed the folks in his Galesburg, Illinois hometown for the past 26 years. Inspired by Diane Arbus, he makes heartfelt pictures of people and places in good times and bad — conveying the details in a few written words on the final print.
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– Paul Laster
Pool hopping in Iceland »
A visual tour of year-round swimming holes
Though the weather may not feel so autumn-crisp just yet, swimming pools and amusement parks are getting ready to close — a sure sign the seasons are changing. While we all sit around and mourn the closure of our local swimming holes, here's a look at a place where they stay open year round: Iceland.
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How To Make Macro Photos Without Buying An Expensive Macro Lens!
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Photography: it can bring people together and show us stuff that’s out of this world.
…We’ve also heard it can be a hard habit to keep up on a budget. Bummer.
Don’t get too bummed though, ’cause whether your kit contains one lens or ten, we’ve got some great news for you!
We’re going to show you how to take professional looking macro photos with the camera and lens you already have!
Read on and you’ll be making photos of all the miniature stuff in your life as fast as you can flip a lens!
How To Make Macro Photos With The Lens You Already Have |
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Full Bleed »
New York City Skateboard Photography
Due out early next month, Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography spans over 30 years of skate culture in NYC, with contributions from more than 40 photographers. Part retrospective, part homage, the book features such noted skateboarders as Steve Olson, Eric Koston, Harold Hunter, Jerry Hsu, Mike Vallely, and Mark Gonzales.
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Brighton Photo Biennial 2010 |
© Stephen Gill, Untitled. Extract from 'Outside In', 2010
In association with the Archive of Modern Conflict
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Brighton Photo Biennial 2010:
New Documents
2 October – 14 November 2010
Brighton & Hove, England, UK
www.bpb.org.uk
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Brighton Photo Biennial announces the full programme entitled New Documents curated by Martin Parr for BPB 2010, the fourth edition of the Biennial, 2 October – 14 November.
Brighton Photo Biennial is the largest and one of the most exciting curated photography festivals in the UK, and, with 58,000 visitors in 2008, one of the best attended in the world.
New Documents will reflect the immediacy and vibrancy of contemporary photographic practice, the eclectic passions found in collections of historic and vernacular photography and new commissions informed and inspired by the diverse communities and contexts of Brighton & Hove.
Martin Parr, the internationally renowned photographer, editor and curator, will curate five exhibitions presenting an exciting programme of commissioned works from internationally celebrated photographers, vernacular images from historic collections and archives produced by commercial and non-professional photographers, and recent work by a new generation of practitioners including a Johannesburg club bouncer, a Senegalese village portraitist, and a Mexican taxi driver.
Artists and photographers include: Wout Berger (NLD), Mohamed Bourouissa (DZA), Alejandro Chaskielberg (ARG), Josef Heinrich Darchinger (DEU), Esteban Pastorino Diaz (ARG), Ju Duoqi (CHN), Stephen Gill (UK), Oscar Fernando Gomez (MEX), Rinko Kawauchi (JPN), Molly Landreth (USA), Oumar Ly (SEN), Dhruv Malhotra (IND), Billy Monk (ZAF), Suzanne Opton (USA), Viviane Sassen (NLD), Alec Soth (USA) and Zoe Strauss (USA).
All the photographs exhibited as part of BPB 2010 will be produced through the Biennial Print Studio established through the support of HP.
The BPB 2010 education programme responds to Parr's curatorial vision. Multi-platform, artist led projects will present projected, texted, installed, moving, mobile and online photographic images during the Biennial period created by young people from Brighton & Hove and across the South East.
Martin Parr, Guest Curator, commented: "I want to make this festival fresh, distinctive and focused on Brighton & Hove. This city is the ideal venue for a Photo Biennial. It has a natural cultural constituency of its own, and its proximity to London promises a potentially huge audience. By presenting the very best new work in an exciting and imaginative way, Brighton Photo Biennial 2010 will continue to put photography in Brighton & Hove on the national and international map."
"As well as presenting the keynote exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, we shall use existing partner venues: Fabrica, Lighthouse, University of Brighton Gallery, and partners, Photoworks, plus premiere new and recent work by international photographer's in an unusual, alternative exhibition space in a central city location. This will be a Biennial that can be viewed by people on foot. BPB 2010 will be the first frame-free photography festival in the world. The images will be pinned onto walls. We are working with a range of commercial partners, including HP, manufacturers of state-of-the-art digital printers, who will make all the prints, Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform and in association with The Sunday Times Magazine."
"The Biennial Opening Weekend is a must-attend event for anyone seriously interested in photography. There will be an information and publishers hub at the University of Brighton, with talks by invited photographer's including Alec Soth and Esteban Pastorino Diaz, and panel discussions exploring the impact of the digital on the photographic book, practice and the print. "
BPB 2010 opens 2 October until 14 November 2010. Over 85,000 visitors are expected to attend the curated programme and events across Brighton & Hove and the related programme.
Further information about the Biennial Opening Weekend and Biennial Events will be announced shortly at: www.bpb.org.uk/events
and also www.bpb.org.uk/calendar for booking tickets.
For further press information, Roz Arratoon and Emma Petit of Margaret London: roz@margaretlondon.com and emma@margaretlondon.com
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How to Make a Tilt-Shift Lens for $10 (Plus Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tilt-Shift!)
And now for a non-dictionary of photo terms:
Tilt-shift: not the spazzy-legged move we bust on the dance floor.
Selective focus: not the clever strategy used against parents.
Maybe we’re better off referencing our pal Bhautik’s incredible guide to tilt-shift and DIY lenses! It’ll teach you all sorts about tilt-shift, like -
What the heck is a tilt-shift lens anyway? (A lens that can tilt and shift its planes to focus selectively and make the subjects in your photos look miniature, too!)
Isn’t tilt-shift only for 19th Century men with pointy mustaches, cloaks, and large, fancy cameras? (No! Anyone with an SLR can do it!)
Can’t I just fuzzy out parts of my photos using Photoshop? (Yes, but the real thing is so much more fun. PLUS, you can make videos, like this miniaturized San Francisco vid!)
Where do I get one? (Make your own, it’s easy! 3 tutorials teach you how to make your own plunger- and bendy-cams for about $10!)
Now, select your focus and tilt n’ shift til the cows (photos) come home!
Selective Focus: An Illustrated Guide to DIY Tilt-Shift
[Bhautik's Selective Focus Gallery]
p.s. Bhautik is a Research Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic (Lucasfilm!!) and the guy who wrote those amazingly popular plunger-cam tutorials!
p.p.s. The Selective-Focus guide is also available in print via Magcloud.
Photo credits: Bhautik Joshi
WEB
SepiaTown »
Incorporating antique photos and images, mapping site SepiaTown is like an online time capsule of cities around the world.
Users are able to upload historical images of buildings and other locations with precise addresses, so you can see just what the spot you’re standing on looked like 100 years ago. SepiaTown’s Then/Now feature allows you to compare a historical image to the current Google Street View, or you can map historical events, such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 or the 1928 UK Suffrage movement.
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– Leah Taylor
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Peter Ainsworth »
Winner of the UK's Converse/Dazed 2010 Emerging Artist Award, Peter Ainsworth photographs both unintentional and deliberate actions within his environment.
From evolving graffiti on a highway wall to the winter covering of garden palm trees, and from staged scenarios with discarded objects in a desolate suburban tract to the precious handling of a found stuffed bird along the Thames, Ainsworth documents man's relationship to nature and the constructed environment with a poetic eye and a droll sense of humor.
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– Paul Laster
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sea Change »
Photographers respond to the BP oil spill
What was running though Alison Zavos' head when she was asked to curate a photography show for a summer festival? "I was feeling really frustrated and a little helpless with the clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico," she says. "I came up with the idea for Sea Change as a way to figure out what good, if any, could come out of this disaster."
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Marco van Duyvendijk »
Eastward Bound with a slow photographer
A slow photographer — one who takes time getting to know his subjects — Marco van Duyvendijk studied psychology before picking up a camera. Exhibiting a passion for thoughtful documentary and portrait photography, he has developed an adventurous eye for youthful faces, bright colors, and formal compositions.
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Event: Thursday, September 9, 5 - 8 pm
Opening Reception for the Fall Exhibition
Join us for an evening reception!
Suggestions of a Life Being Lived is a bold presentation of contemporary work that looks at queerness as a set of political alliances and possibilities. The exhibition features 16 artists working in photography, film, video, activism and education, and was organized for SF Camerawork by guest curators Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye Roberts.
Stop by after work on September 9, enjoy some wine and music, and check out this exciting exhibition!
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Canon Rolls Out Studio Version of EOS 7D Digital SLR
Revamped 7D offers way to lock camera controls; Canon also intros new bar code scanner solution.
