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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 28th, 2008
This Saturday, Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR) hosted a talk by Chas Bowie entitled “Before there was Ballen”. This was the closing event for the show “Roger Ballen: Photographs” at Quality Pictures.
Chas talked about the Ballen’s and how his work builds on a myriad of photographic traditions. Chas approached [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 11th, 2008
Photographs have been tampered throughout photographic history. I created the phrase “Taking out the Trotsky” to describe removal of people through manipulation. Stalin had teams of people removing all evidence of Trotsky and others he disagreed with from photographs and writings.
Scientific American has a slide show called “Digital Forensics: Photo Tampering Throughout History“, [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 11th, 2008
Finally! cross-platform Web browser(Firefox) to support color management and use your custom display profile to display images. Safari has been doing this on the Mac, but now Windows users and of course all FireFox users can also have color-management. I’ve been a big supporter of Firefox and Thunderbird for years and promoting [...]
Posted in Misc on May 16th, 2008
PDN Photo Annual 2008 contest results are now out. I noticed that at least one Portland photographer won an award in the “student work” category, Congrats to Aaron D. Busch!
You can see all of the PDN winners online at:
http://gallery.pdnevents.com/annual2008/
Photographer: Aaron D. Busch
School: Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR
Title: Inescapable
Concept: This [...]
Posted in Other Openings on May 12th, 2008
Lie back in the video lounge that TJ Norris has crafted for us to experience an endless city. Let the soundtrack by Christen Renou allow your thoughts to flow. The endless/seemless looping of two image channels on the ceiling provide impulses of the images of a moving city. Feel the fact that [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on May 11th, 2008
This month 23 Sandy Gallery hosts the national juried show “Resurrection”, which is called a New Look at Old Photographic Processes. This is a well-curated show (Laura Moya, director of PhotoLucida) especially given the wide range of subjects and the many types of antiquarian processes used.
This lead image in this blog is by Jan [...]
Posted in Misc on May 7th, 2008
I am opposed to the Orphan Works Act. There is a simple way to let your voice be heard, see: http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/
How the Orphan Works Bills Affects Visual Artists:
H.R. 5889, The Orphan Works Act of 2008, was introduced on April 24, 2008 by House Judiciary Committee Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Berman of California, full Judiciary [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on May 2nd, 2008
There were many shows to look at this First Thursday and it was a wonderful warm evening to walk around Portland. Amanda Wojick had several sculptures and other works on display at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR).
I particularly like the sculpture “Among” which was a connected stack of polystyrene. “Among” [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Apr 30th, 2008
Another friend of ours, Thomas Kellner was at this years New York AIPAD. Thomas lives in Germany and shows his work internationally. In the past he has also had solo shows in Portland including the now-closed “Photographic Image Gallery”.
Thomas’s images are composed of strips of 35mm negatives and printed as a contact sheet. [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Apr 27th, 2008
Our friends Vanessa & Jeff turned about to be stars of AIPAD. They were widely successful in selling at the show and to some important collectors as well. Was this due to the “Carlile bump” due to mentioning them on this website Our dinner with Jeff & Vanessa (yeah I think [...]