Mystifier and demystifier. Historian, critic, visual studier. New book: "Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography" https://teapawt.net/t.co/f9k3Qi5AMn
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“My running diary is a stack of 8 ½ x 11” papers printed with a calendar grid.”
Kim Beil’s running diary for our series, Gym Week.
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Correspondence Course: Letters on Photography is a new essay series co-authored with @kalophile. During lockdown, Kim and I (who had never met) became photographic pen pals. Our eight letters are now part of @Photomonitor’s Experiments series. Part 1 here: photomonitor.co.uk/experimen…
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With Kim Beil (@kalophile) in the bookshop @TPGallery. Double whammy of our two little books on the front desk! Anonymous Objects (published by @MACK_books) and More than a Snapshot (published by @4CornersBooks). Called for a silly s(h)elfie…
Today in photo forensics: Babe Ruth Baseball Bat Breaks Auction Sale Record Thanks to Photo Evidence petapixel.com/2023/04/06/bab…
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We are delighted to announce 📣 More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets by @AnnebellaPollen — the tenth title in our beloved Irregulars series.
Out this May, pre-order your copy here ⬇️
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The photograph was by Ansel Adams. Its title: “High Country Crags and Moon, Sunrise, Kings Canyon National Park.” Its date: “circa 1935.” Could an art historian find out exactly when and where it was taken? nyti.ms/3ZZ1Xz8
I have so many questions: “The core dataset was trained on LAION-Aesthetics…created with a new CLIP-based model that filtered LAION-5B based on how ‘beautiful’ an image was, building on ratings from the alpha testers of Stable Diffusion.” stability.ai/blog/stable-dif…
This book makes you see the whole world differently. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to talk about it with two fantastic artists, Josh Smith and Vanessa Woods: Talking in the Library - Ken Graves and Eva Lipman's "Restraint and Desire" youtu.be/xw0Ij8oHu_U
"Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, unlike sight, which is the most magical.”
--Roland Barthes, Mythologies
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On #ChattingThePictures, we describe how #BrandonBell’s photo for @GettyImages rises so far above the standard heat wave pic. With thanks, also, to @SaffronJONeill. Watch now: readingthepictures.org/2022/… #visualsociology #visualstudies #ivsa #visualculture #envcomm #climatecomm
