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Snapm - Find and book an amateur or professional photographer today
via snapm.com
I saw that snapm guys give a brief demo of their site last night at Hackers and Founders #8 and I'm impressed with what they've managed to accomplish in the 2 months since they've started.
So, maybe check it out and give it a try. In the spirit of things, give them some feedback, I'm sure they'll appreciate it.
Snapsort
Snapsort allows you to quickly compare cameras. The random button is a neat addition, but I don't think I'd use it to choose a camera. Example: D60 vs. Joe's Point and Shoot.
Joe's Point and Shoot was recommended, but based only on spec comparison. The comparison gave no recommendations based on use case.
Cool site, but certainly could be a bit more objective.
Holga My Love
via holgamylove.com
It's not that this blog is more special than other photoblogs, it's that this particular photoblog's look at life has a vignette.
Photo Writings
1. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, in “Illuminations” ed., Hannah Arendt
2. Walter Benjamin, “The Author as Producer”, in “Reflections” ed., Hannah Arendt
3. Roland Barthes, “The Rhetoric of the Image”, in “Image Music Text”
4. Roland Barthes, “The Photographic Message”, in “Image Music Text”
5. Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” in “Image Music Text”
6. Roland Barthes, “Camera Lucida”
7. Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation”
7. Susan Sontag, “On Photography”
8. Susan Sontag “Regarding the Pain of Others”
9. Vilem Flusser, “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”
10. Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood”
11. Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias”
12. Martha Rosler, “In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)” in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton
13. Deborah Bright, “Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry Into the Culture Meanings of Landscape Photography”, in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton
14. Allan Sekula, “The Body and the Archive” in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton (also in October, Winter 1986)
15. Allan Sekula, “Reading an Archive” from “Blasted Allegories”, ed., Brian Wallis
16. Christopher Phillips, “ The Judgment Seat of Photography” in “The Contest of Meaning”, ed., Richard Bolton
17. Walter Benjamin, “A Short History of Photography”, in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg
18. Andre Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image”, in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg
19. Siegfried Kracauer, “Photography” in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg
20. Hubert Damisch, “Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image” in “Classic Essays on Photography”, ed., Alan Trachtenberg
21. Craig Owens, “Photography En Abyme”, in “Beyond Recognition”
22. Craig Owens, “The Discourse of Others: Feminism and Postmodernism”, in “Beyond Recognition”
23. Douglas Crimp, “Pictures” October, Volume 8, 1979, also in “Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation”, ed., Brian Wallis
24. John Szarkowski, “Mirrors and Windows”
25. Rosalind Krauss, “Notes on the Index: Part 1 and Part 2” in “The Originality of the Avant – Garde and other Modernist Myths”
26. Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” in “Visual and Other Pleasures”
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Photub has Moved
Photub has sort of been down for a long while, and still remains sort of broken. The reason is because my hosting provider has moved the site to a new server 2 times in 2 months. I then had to do some setup each time to get the antiquated software running again—the second time I just didn't do it.
Instead, I've decided to migrate to Posterous, which is a great piece of software that allows you to post from a really nice bookmarklet, via email, or via the web.
This should allow me to make more frequent posts—it's super simple, so I expect that to happen. I am in transition mode, but it hasn't been a huge priority, among the many other things going on in my life right now, but I did migrate nearly all of the posts over to here.
One other thing to note—www.photub.com will not get you here right now. You'll have to use photub.com for now.
Abandoned Places From Around the World
Abandoned Places In the World is a look at abandoned places in 6 of the 7 continents, from Namibia, to California, making stops in Japan, France, Italy, Hong Kong and Russia (among many others). Historic commentary accompanies the photos which come mostly from photos posted on Flickr.
This would have made a fantastic interactive piece.
