Archive for June, 2008
The Lost Continent
Jeffrey Gettleman has written a very disturbing article for the New York Times ( June 8, 2008) about the plight of albinos in Tanzania, Africa. Two paragraphs from Gettleman’s story sum up the incredible situation: “…at least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year, victims of what Tanzanian officials [...]
The Artist and the Artisan, part II
In my post on Pascal Dangin, image-enhancer ( The Artist and the Artisan) I said: But with the advent of so-called ‘photo-based art’ it has become increasingly evident that the photographer steps aside after taking the picture; the making of the fine-art object involves the handiwork of a shadowy coterie of retouchers, printers, exhibition designers [...]
Virginia’s Art Work
The Reclusive Gardener click on images to enlarge These are some samples of my wife Virginia’s art: a backyard shade garden in a suburb of Washington DC. How different Virginia’s art is from my own which is photography; they’re almost opposites in fact. Her art work is ephemeral and changes [...]
The Artist and the Artisan
The New Yorker recently ( May 12) had a fascinating article about Pascal Dangin, pixel-manipulater extraordinaire. “Pixel perfect” by Lauren Collins relates how Dangin has become the “premier retoucher of fashion photographs.” Ensconced in his windowless lair , known as “Las Vegas” because it’s always three a.m in the dark night of image manipulation, Pascal [...]