tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post3969978445790036342..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Poncy Titleamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-55835431682039368142017-04-19T12:51:52.527-07:002017-04-19T12:51:52.527-07:00Hi Andrew, thanks for your recent musings. Yours i...Hi Andrew, thanks for your recent musings. Yours is one of the very few photo blogs I still follow. I'm a white South African, with both feet and heart very firmly embedded in the African continent. But my head, well, I have a standard western education and books and the internet, so I'm also well plugged into western consciousness. A lot of it seems so insular, and I can only echo your call for a more wide ranging sensibility of other paradigms. But don't push me on what that means or what it would look like!<br /><br />There are some great photographers rooted in Africa and well established internationally, such as David Goldblatt, Zanele Muholi and Malick Sidibé. Although much of our local scene has a strong western influence, there is also a well established local awareness (for example, see article in a local newspaper: <br />https://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-18-15-significant-sa-photographers-to-know). On a continent wide scale, I recently came across 'A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960 2010’ (Bozar Books, www.bozar.be, and Silvana Editoriale, www.silvanaeditoriale.it).<br /><br />For me personally, as a wannabe photographer in South Africa working within rather tight constraints, I have started publishing photographs of my observations in a small decaying rural town. While the details are local and specific, it is an experience that I suspect is repeated across South Africa and many other parts of the world<br /> (https://www.photoblog.com/browse/tag/greylingstad/).<br />John Barrowhttps://www.photoblog.com/johne/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-5273928993169767962017-04-18T21:09:33.813-07:002017-04-18T21:09:33.813-07:00Another potentially interesting link
http://taprev...Another potentially interesting link<br />http://tapreview.orgStephen Cysewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15525704938991017440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-73764722396442481752017-04-18T21:03:33.455-07:002017-04-18T21:03:33.455-07:00You might find this relevant
http://invisiblephoto...You might find this relevant<br />http://invisiblephotographer.asia/Stephen Cysewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15525704938991017440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-55194217794960310132017-04-18T15:54:06.530-07:002017-04-18T15:54:06.530-07:00I wonder if so much of the images we might encount...I wonder if so much of the images we might encounter from non-european/american, etc. photographers have been selected, or self-selected to make some kind of sense to us. Maybe the really different stuff isn't banal or derivative, but so incomprehensible without a roadmap that it doesn't even make it to websites or publications that we might encounter.hbernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13088030794850141658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-37101235684999995832017-04-18T15:02:10.507-07:002017-04-18T15:02:10.507-07:00I believe the same problem applies to visual art f...I believe the same problem applies to visual art from the past - the meaning of symbols and metaphors is forgotten rather quickly (within a couple of generations). So the interpretation of classical artwork is often reduced to the level of pure form - even if the artwork is rooted in our own (western) culture.<br /><br />Best, Thomas<br />Thomas Rinkhttp://www.picturesfromthezone.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-77414787534253713232017-04-18T10:51:21.812-07:002017-04-18T10:51:21.812-07:00When the Soviet Union collapsed, when the wall wen...When the Soviet Union collapsed, when the wall went down, and when the internet started having photo websites, I was delighted to 'discover' Russian and 'behind the iron curtain' photography. I thought it was distinctly different from what I was used to seeing in the West. Also the dialog with the photographers was encouragingly thoughtful and complex. On the whole, the opening of the curtain and the exchange of ideas was exhilarating to me. <br />Then,somehow, we managed to politically and otherwise screw it up, and instead emerge [on the photo side] with a proliferation of banal and boring work, and a renewed distance from photography in other parts of the world.christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05057172033456543944noreply@blogger.com