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Branches and Fog, Austin, TX, 12.19.2007

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Raiders, Highway 71, Austin, TX, 12.01.2007

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Nola and Terra, City Park, New Orleans, 11.21.2007

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Low Bow, Austin, Texas, 11.13.2007

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Couple Under Highway 71, Austin, TX, 11.01.2007

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Ghost, Austin, TX, 10.12.2007

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Checking for Loose Limbs, Austin, TX, 10.14.2007

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Archery Targets, Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo, Austin, TX, 10.7.2007

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Thade and Spit, Highway 71 and Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, 9.13.2007

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Blazer Tag Adventure Center, Highway 71, Austin, Texas

Ebay Taxidermy Slideshow

slide show

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Turkey, Dyer Automotive Lobby, Highway 71, Austin, Texas

Man and His Dog, Highway 71, Austin, TX, 9.13.2007

Mae in the Bucket, 9.7.2007

Reed Brantley Parr

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Playground Gazebo, Austin, TX 9.8.2007

Digital Versus Film.

A pretty technical take. link via kottke

Victory Family Practice

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Piñata, Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, 9.1.2007

The Pleasure of Your Company

Installation at Texas State University Gallery in ...And Introducing
(L to R) Stealth Bomber, July 4, 2002, Brooklyn New York, Ann and Red Ball Maine 2006, Heart, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 2006
Galaxy 2048, 7 Train, Long Island City, New York, 3.1.2007, Untitled, Humboldt Street, Brooklyn 10.19.2006

(L to R) Citgo, Roanoke, VA, 7.25.2007, See Yourself in Alabama, Alabama Border, 7.26.2007, Elephants, Tuscaluoosa, AL, 7.26.2007, Haase's Shoe Store, New Orleans, LA, 7.30.2007, White Balloon (Vertical), San Marcos, TX, 8.10.2007

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Bingo, 290 at Manchaca, Austin, TX, 8.18.2007

Nina Berman's Purple Hearts

Nina Berman's photographs of wounded returning American soldiers are on display at Jen Bekman Gallery.
She also has a new book. Link

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White Balloon, San Marcos, TX, 8.10.2007

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Citgo, Roanoke, VA, 7.25.2007

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Gael and Mae in Steven's Backyard Pool, Going Away Party for Mae, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 7.19.2007

John Szarkowski Dies at 81

John Szarkowski, a curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography’s status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died in on Saturday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 81. NYT times link

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Lifeguards, Gull, and Ann, Jacob Riis Beach, July 4th 2007, New York

Ann, Mae and I spent the day freezing on the beach today with our usual Independence Day accomplices: Terra, Derek, and Nola. The lifeguards were doing stretches to keep from frostbite. Good times, really.

Lightroom 1.1 is here

Adobe released its new full version of Lightroom 1.1 on June 26th. Databases now called "Catalogs" are in a more robust form, and folders can be synced more easily between computers. New Develop features like Clarity and expanded Unsharp Mask type controls complete with a masking feature make it pretty interesting. And there is a lot more to recommend it.

The upgrade is free.

I had a bit of difficulty installing it at first. The installation kept failing. And then my 1.0 wouldn't even open. Yikes. I eventually threw out my installed version of LR and removed the icon from my dock, and then it worked perfectly. Upon starting 1.1 you will need to convert your old database (1.1 walks you through this) into the catalog format so you will need to navigate to it or else LR will make a new one by default with no info in it. Just read the dialog boxes carefully upon opening 1.1. It is a good idea before you begin the upgrade to open your 1.0 and back up your database before hand just in case 1.1 cant convert it.

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Two Chairs, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 6.12.2007

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Woman with Water Bottle, 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, Manhattan, 6.7.2007
©Barry Stone 2007

They Came. They Conquered. They Posed.

A special photography issue of the Travel section in today's New York Times. link.

Google Street Views

Privacy advocates assert that Street View provides offensively candid photos of unwitting victims. An image taken on a San Francisco street shows a woman sitting in a truck with her underwear peeking out above her jeans.

Thanks, Marcy.

link.

Ink Jet Archival?

The preservation center at Canada’s national archive here might have the last word when it comes to keeping the color in color photography. link

More articles that appeared in the Times yesterday as a part of a special digital photography section here.

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Weekly Picture 83: Unicorn, Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 5.17.2007

A Splash of Photo History Comes to Light

At first glance the two pictures seem to be gorgeous anachronisms, full-color blasts from the black-and-white world of 1908, the year Ford introduced the Model T and Theodore Roosevelt was nearing the end of his second term.

NY Times

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Log, Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 5.7.2007

Brandon Lattu at Leo Koenig Inc.

Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks...

- Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

Leo Koenig Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition of new photo-based works by Brandon Lattu. An extremely considered artist, for this exhibition, Lattu will be exhibiting works that have occupied his attention over the last several years. A conceptualist who uses photography, sculpture, and digitally based imagery, Lattu has carefully labored over the most intricate details of his images to produce works that seduce with a deceptively simple and elegant beauty. At the same time these images resonate on an equally powerful sentient level.
Link. Thanks, Julian.

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Carwash 3759, Chelsea, NYC, 4.11.2007

LAZHAR MANSOURI

Among the benefits of multiculturalism was an expanded field for photography. Until recently the only photographic view the Western art market acknowledged, or even knew about, was the Euro-American view. The assumption was that photographic depiction was a Western prerogative. The role of the rest of the world was to be exotic, “ethnic” subject. link

Liz Deschenes

For several years, Deschenes has teased apart the photographic process in compelling ways, mixing and matching its steps in an attempt to explain the camera’s magic without diminishing it and to remind viewers of the viral proliferation of screens in contemporary life. link

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Skater with Hat, San Marcos, TX, 4.20.2007

Alec Soth on the Importance of Titles

Men might think about sex every seven seconds, but I think about project titles. There is no greater pleasure than lying on the couch, closing my eyes, and daydreaming about the perfect title.

Link

Stephen Shore on Leonard Lopate

Stephen Shore was promoting the Nature of Photographs on wnyc
Here is a slideshow from the book.

He will be signing copies of the book tonight at the
The Chelsea Barnes & Noble
675 Sixth Avenue, at 21st Street

Report from Texas no.1

Luby's is Hiring, Skater, Roadside Tree,
Barry Stone, April 2007

Wagstaff

Tall, handsome and rich would be one way to describe Sam Wagstaff, a legendary figure in the international art world of the 1970s and ’80s. Urbane is another. Iconoclastic, certainly. And glamorous, without a doubt. But the word that keeps cropping up in “Black White + Gray,” a new documentary about Mr. Wagstaff by a first-time director, James Crump, that will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, is “visionary.” Link Thanks, Deron.

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Ghost, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 4.18.2007