http://search39.midley.co.uk/ Notable websites, sources of information and events concerning photography and related arts and sciences. Attention is focussed on the history of photography. en-gb Copyright: (C) Midley History of early Photography (R. Derek Wood) http://search39.midley.co.uk/Midley_logo_56.gif http://search39.midley.co.uk/ Sun, 11 May 2008 19:32:03 GMT Original Articles: Editorial by Thy Phu and Matthew Brower ; Surreal Encounters:Science, Surrealism and the Re-Circulation of a Crime-Scene Photograph [depicting the body of Mary Kelly, Jack the Ripper's final victim] by Linda Steer ; Public/Private Tensions in the Photography of Sally Mann by Sarah Parsons ; Welfare Capitalism and Documentary Photography:[Use of photography in promoting welfare capitalist initiatives at National Cash Register Company (N.C.R.) of Dayton Ohio in early 20th century] by Elspeth H. Brown ; From Public Relations to Art: Exhibiting Frances Benjamin Johnston's Hampton Institute Photographs by Sarah Bassnett ; George Shiras and the Circulation of Wildlife Photography by Matthew Brower ; Atomic Afterimages [Recirculation of R. Del Tredici's photographs of Cold War nuclear weapons complex] by Blake Fitzpatrick ; Still Supplementation:Stan Douglas's Cuba Photographs, by Kelly Wood. History of Photography, published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group) URL www.informaworld.com http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g792283249 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:08:20 GMT http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g792283249 The more an artist moves in the direction of abstraction, the more diverse, contradictory, and often abstruse, the commentaries on the work will become. Each major new exhibition of Joan Miró over the past 30 years or so has produced new interpretations of his oeuvre. Tomás Llorens, chief curator of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, argues that the key to understanding Miró lies in his attachment to the land of his native Catalonia. Llorens is author of the catalogue "Miró: La Terra", a show of more than 80 paintings, sculptures and ceramics, at Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy, until May 25. Article by Roderick Conway Morris, International Herald Tribune, April 18, 2008 http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/18/travel/conway.php Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:30:10 GMT http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/18/travel/conway.php Powell had several long stays in Afghanistan under different regimes and circumstances. His photographs are online (images of high quality from the photographer's own dye-transfer prints) as "No American publisher will consider anything so controversial as a book so accepting of Afghan culture. But, different ethnic and political factors drive American art museums. When the Russians were the occupation army trying to drag the Afghans reluctantly into our industry-dependent world, my exhibit The Afghan Folio had over a dozen shows a year in museums across North America. There were over a million visitors in 1989 alone at twenty-two different museums. Now these exhibitions have stopped. Amazing how quickly American taste in art changes..." http://www.lukepowell.com/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:11:14 GMT http://www.lukepowell.com/ La polémique autour de l'exposition du photographe André Zucca (1897-1973), présentée à la Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP) jusqu'au 1er juillet sous le titre "Les Parisiens sous l'Occupation", ne cesse de rebondir. Plusieurs voix dénoncent un accrochage qui ne révèle que de jolies bluettes en couleurs et masque à la fois la réalité dramatique de l'époque et le fait qu'il s'agit de photos de propagande réalisées par un auteur au service du bimensuel allemand et nazi Signal. Le Monde peut aujourd'hui révéler qu'une exposition André Zucca d'une tout autre ambition, conçue au début des années 2000 au sein même de la BHVP, et qui visait à montrer toutes les facettes du personnage, a été préparée avant d'être abandonnée. Par Michel Guerrin, Le Monde, 24 Avr 2008 http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/04/24/comment-a-echoue-une-exposition-critique-des-photos-de-paris-occupe_1038025_3246.html Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:06:04 GMT http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/04/24/comment-a-echoue-une-exposition-critique-des-photos-de-paris-occupe_1038025_3246.html Liz Jobey at the Guardian blog on Art and Architecture begins a new series on the state of online photography collections, She surveyed what is on offer and discovers that Britain has a lot to learn. That 'Among the archives: America does it bigger and better'. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/04/among_the_archives_american_im.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:45:31 GMT http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/04/among_the_archives_american_im.html Around 1887, a photographer who used the pseudonym Dornac started doing the rounds of Paris society, explaining to his sitters that he planned to build up a photographic survey of the great and the good. Forty years later, Dornac published his portraits 'Our Contemporaries at Home'. Some sitters like Rodin or Verlaine are famous. Dornac soon faded from memory and so did any desire to find out who Dornac really was. Early this year, things started moving afresh. By Souren Melikian, International Herald Tribune, May 2, 2008 http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/02/arts/melik3.php Fri, 02 May 2008 15:21:16 GMT http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/02/arts/melik3.php Exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, until 10 August 2008. All aboard for the modern age. The coming of the railways transformed Victorian Britain and inspired powerful new art, as this fine show in Liverpool reveals. Reviewed by Laura Cumming, The Observer (London), Sunday May 4, 2008 http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2277780,00.html Sun, 04 May 2008 00:16:00 GMT http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2277780,00.html Exhibition at MMA New York until October 19, 2008. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection, four decades of photographs by artists who have turned the camera on photography itself. From the early 1960s to recent years that have seen much hand-wringing about the future of the medium, as 150 years of analog photography rapidly give way to its digital successor. 9 images online. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/photography/reflections_more.asp Sun, 04 May 2008 21:25:05 GMT http://www.metmuseum.org/special/photography/reflections_more.asp An international group show entitled Between Memory and History: From the Epic to the Everyday. at Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, part of Contact, the month-long photography festival. Curators Bonnie Rubenstein and David Liss address this year's theme, provocatively asking where exactly photography is leading us, cellphones and Coolpix in hand. Globe and Mail (Toronto), May 2, 2008 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080502.contact03/BNStory/Entertainment/home Mon, 05 May 2008 20:26:12 GMT http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080502.contact03/BNStory/Entertainment/home It wasn't supposed to be this way, but 'Polaroids: Mapplethorpe', opening this week at the Whitney, has become a memorial to the medium. Several weeks ago, the diminished Polaroid Corporation announced it will, in 2009, quit the instant-film business. Of course, it's hard to argue with the ease of digital for the lion's share of see-it-now picture-taking. Nevertheless, a lot of photographers are vehement about what they're losing...It was always something artists liked. New York Magazine, May 4, 2008 http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/46655/ Mon, 05 May 2008 20:39:20 GMT http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/46655/ Editorial, by A. Auer and A. Crawford ; The Autochrome Process, by T. G. Sewell ; Integrating Photography into History of Art: remarks on the life and scientific estate of Heinrich Schwarz, by A. Wagner ; Blossfeldt and Surrealism, by Ian Walker ; Christian Schad: 'My Pictures are in no way meant as illustration', by Nikolaus Schad ; In the laboratory of light: the photogram in contemporary art and its interrelationship with 1920s avant-garde practice , by I. Nevole, C. Natlacen, M. Schindelegger. ; The artist as photographer, picturing the countryside, by K. Arcadius. Pp.62, 37 ill. European Society for the History of Photography (Vienna). http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/partnerlinks/eshph/09767/index.php Thu, 08 May 2008 00:10:05 GMT http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/partnerlinks/eshph/09767/index.php On the occasion of a major retrospective of the work of the Russian Photographer Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997) in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin from 9 May to 28 July 2008, Der Speigel has a gallery of 7 photos showing manipuluation of Khaldei's iconic photographs of the hoisting of the red flag of the Soviet Union on the top of the Reichstag building in Berlin on 2 May 1945. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,551972,00.html Fri, 09 May 2008 11:46:50 GMT http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,551972,00.html La Hoover Institution, en Californie, a rendu publiques dix photographies exceptionnelles, lundi 5 mai. Elles lui ont été remises, en 1998, par Robert L. Capp, un soldat qui avait participé aux forces américaines d'occupation du Japon à l'issue de la seconde guerre mondiale. "En fouillant une cave près d'Hiroshima, explique Sean Malloy, historien et chercheur à l'Université de Californie, à Merced, Capp est tombé sur des pellicules non développées : parmi elles, il y avait ces photos." Leur auteur, japonais, est inconnu. http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2008/05/09/hiroshima-ce-que-le-monde-n-avait-jamais-vu_1042939_3222.html#ens_id=1043027 Sat, 10 May 2008 01:26:14 GMT http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2008/05/09/hiroshima-ce-que-le-monde-n-avait-jamais-vu_1042939_3222.html#ens_id=1043027 Migrant Mother is Dorothea Lange's most famous image and one of the most famous in the history of photography. The mother was Florence Owens: ... Interviews with her children. (By Lennie Bennett, Art in focus, St Petersburg Times [Florida]. In print: Sunday, May 11, 2008 ) http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article493338.ece Sat, 10 May 2008 13:40:06 GMT http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/article493338.ece Based at Cardiff University's Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, an elegant new e-journal devoted to the study of literary illustration as a discipline in its own right. The well illustrated first issue of Dec 2007 has three articles of quality on 19th century illustration and a report on the Hartley Collection of Victorian Illustration. http://www.jois.cf.ac.uk Sun, 11 May 2008 19:30:15 GMT http://www.jois.cf.ac.uk