Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers

Take a look at what Alec Soth has put together over at the Magnum Blog. "Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers" is a recent post he put together with his and his Magnum colleagues words of advice to new photographers. My favorites include Alec's "Try Everything", Hoepker's "Avoid all photo schools and courses.", and a lot of what Donovan Wylie had to say. Head over and give it a read.

Richard Renaldi

I really enjoy the work of Richard Renaldi. Jorg Colberg recently had a conversation with him about his newest project "Touching Strangers"

SeeSaw Magazine

I thought I had already mentioned SeeSaw Magazine when I posted about purpose magazine (they both just happen to have the same work on the cover of their newest issue). Check it out! The artist, writer, critic Aaron Schuman started it several years ago, and it always includes a lot of wonderful work and some great writing and interviews.

Memory Is Your Image of Perfection

I had a two hour lunch break while serving jury duty yesterday so I wandered over to MOCA downtown. They have an exhibition up that includes a lot of photography, including the work of Eleanor Antin and Barbara Kruger (who used to teach at UCSD), and the wonderful work of fellow M.F.A. candidate Yvonne Venegas.

Eloquent Nude: The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston & Charis Wilson

The film "Eloquent Nude: The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston & Charis Wilson" will be screened this Friday at MOPA in Balboa Park. The documentary takes an intimate look at the relationship between the great Modern photographer, Edward Weston, and his wife, muse, and creative partner, Charis Wilson.

Purpose Webzine

Not sure how many people know of the online magazine Purpose, but they put together some nice work. "Created in January 2006, purpose is a free and independent webzine, dedicated to the presentation of photographic work. The subjects explored are broad and relevant: "chronicles of the ordinary", "Africa seen by its photographers", "environment", "social body", "memory", "margins and frontiers", "childhood"…"

Andy Goldsworthy

Today's New York Times has an interesting article on new work by Andy Goldsworthy (we watched his film "Rivers and Tides" in lecture last week).

New Links

I have added additional links to the work of some of the artists we discussed today. See the links to the artists on the right. Also, here is a link for the talk tomorrow at the Getty: Stillness and Restlessness: Watkins, Muybridge, and Landscape Photography in 19th-Century California

In Focus: The Landscape at The Getty

The Getty Center has two great shows up dealing with landscape photography. One exhibition, drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's collection, brings together the work of more than 25 innovative photographers who have left their mark on the history of the genre. California's first great artist was a photographer -- Carleton Watkins, who worked throughout the West in the mid-19th century. His work blossomed into maturity in the 1860s, with big images that evoked not just paintings but also the immensity of the Western landscape. This image of Three Brothers peak is included in an exhibit at the Getty Museum, "Dialogue Among Giants: Carelton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California."

John Parot talk this Thursday

"the photographer whose extraordinary ability to find beauty in the banal has transformed the way we look at the world"

Here is a recent article from W Magazine on the work of William Eggleston. You will recognize some of his images from recent lectures. The Observer put out this fantastic article a few years back that is worth checking out.

My Barbarian TONIGHT

Just wanted to remind you about the MY BARBARIAN show this Friday 10/17 at
Mandeville Recital Hall, 7.30pm ($5 for students)

Panel Discussion on the Art of Eleanor Antin

October 17, Friday
2:00 p.m., Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater, Museum of Photographic Arts
Free

Learn more about the art of conceptual artist Eleanor Antin, featured in SDMA’s exhibition Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes. Panelists will examine and discuss Antin’s work, her impact on the art world, her use of photography in relationship to movie representations of the ancient world and its myths, and her use of fiction in providing a better understanding of contemporary social realities.

This should be very interesting and its FREE! Eleanor played a major role in setting up the Visual Arts department at UCSD.

Portraiture

"A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C." 1966
Be sure to check out Diane Arbus and her amazing body of work. Some of the best portrait work to come out of the 20th century.

"Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Builder of the Steamship "Great Eastern" . 1857
Robert Howlett -- One of my favorite portraits. I believe this was the largest ship built in the 19th century.

Zauberformel at the Marcuse

Come by and check out the opening of an installation by Richard Earl Bott. Opening reception tonight 6-9.