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Sunday, 23 June 2002 |
Architect Zaha Hadid is one of the most remarkable in her field. Zaha Hadid: Works and Projects is showing at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome, through to August 11th this year.
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Many of the limited edition artworks offered for sale online by the Eyestorm dealership are printed digitally.
11:54:23 AM
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You sit down in front of your Windows PC, and immediately feel as if your IQ has dropped 20 points.
11:25:25 AM
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Milton Greene’s son Joshua thinks that digital photography and inkjet printing is good enough for him and his late famous photographer dad as well.
Milton Greene shot fashion. In fact, along with Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Cecil Beaton, he turned fashion photography into an art form. But it was his shots of Hollywood’s best-loved personalities—Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, Sammy Davis Jr. and others—that earned Greene a place as one of the 20th century’s most important portrait photographers.
Digital technology has proven to be more than adequate to restore Milton’s vast archive and make it available to a new generation of admirers.
11:10:25 AM
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I have been coming across a few photographers and photo lab people who are saying that digital photography and inkjet printing are not good enough for them yet. Well, the new digital media are apparently good enough for LA-based movie poster and portrait photographer Greg Gorman.
Along with Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman is ranked among the most famous of modern portrait and celebrity photographers. But Gorman arrived late to the digital photography revolution. “Several years ago,” he says, “I felt that the digital revolution was a good excuse for poor photography.” Today Gorman still shoots primarily in film, but he finishes digitally on a Mac.
I have an interview with Greg Gorman on this website, and a downloadable PDF of the introduction.
11:00:55 AM
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A great article in the Creative section of the Apple website about a freelance “conceptual” artist. In the fine art world a conceptual artist is a different thing from what this guy does, which is more properly called concept art, or in advertising a visualizer.
During pre-production and production for Minority Report, Manser installed his PowerBook laptop and his 17-inch Sony monitor on-site at Sony Pictures, so that he could quickly respond to the project’s demands.
That is what is so great about Apple’s new G4 PowerBook, the fact that you can tote it around with you and then connect it up to a big LCD monitor in an office, to work better and faster.
10:47:45 AM
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Moby has been touring the world for the past 5 months, promoting his new album 18. He writes a daily journal entry in his website. He lives large and travels light by carrying an Apple iBook wherever he goes, by the way.
I visited his journal pages today to see what he is up to next. I came across these thoughts on self-esteem and negative criticism. (The lack of capitalization is his.)
you know what drives me crazy?
when people needlessly criticize each other. i have so many friends and acquaintances who suffer from low self-esteem because at some point someone needlessly criticized them.
how many people do you know who are smart and talented and capable of accomplishing great things but who suffer from low self-esteem because they’d been criticized in their past?
what compels a parent or friend or boyfriend or girlfriend to criticize and hurt someone? it seems like a profoundly cruel thing to do.
I have been getting some abuse and negative criticism for my work in the exhibition at the Artrage gallery in Perth, closing at the end of the month. It is to do with the fact that these images were made between 1985 and 1991, and are being shown only now.
The reason I am only now able to show this work in any gallery anywhere in this country is that the same people making this criticism were in control of the art galleries and art magazines, until a younger generation began to infiltrate and take them over them recently.
When I began trying to find galleries and magazines interested in showing this work—A Poverty of Desire— during the period I was making it, it was roundly abused and rejected by these so-called experts on the grounds that it was neither art nor photography. I was told that I was a charlatan and should be ashamed of myself.
That kind of ugly and entirely negative criticism shattered my self-esteem as an artist. I set my personal creative work aside for a time, and did what I could to expose the people in this country to the kind of art that had inspired and sustained me for so long. I did it with a magazine, and I became a writer and critic. In the process I helped publish many artists’ work and gave a number of people their first breaks.
Now that open-minded younger people are accepting my work, the old guard who so reacted against it and prevented it from being seen are abusing me for not having shown it before. They are the ones who are responsible for this work only being shown after all this time. They should be ashamed of themselves. I refuse to be, now.
10:04:15 AM
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A furniture craftsman discussing a particular Western Australian timber: “I resemble it to a cow’s heart in colour.”
9:14:36 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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