Tag Archives: photography

Gertrude Käsebier

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

The internet is good for some things. Whilst idly browsing YouTube links of 19th century photography – don’t tell me you don’t do the same – I came across Gertrude Käsebier. Our Gertrude married Edward Käsebier and he financed her … Continue reading →

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Phoneography: a new wonder of the world

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

This time it’s the Washington Post getting all excited about the marvel that is the fact that cell (mobile) phones have cameras in them and, shock shock horror horror, they can take some pretty decent pictures. Obviously being media types … Continue reading →

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The ‘new’ V&A photography gallery

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

The Victoria & Albert Museum, the V&A, has been doing a spot of trumpeting about its new photography gallery. Gone, they say, is the old derisory display and instead we have a gleaming new room that enables them to show … Continue reading →

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Places, strange and quiet: Wim Wenders at Haunch of Venison, London

Posted on May 7, 2011 by

It’s not too much of a stretch to say that without Wim Wenders ‘indie cinema’, particularly that of the late 80s and 90s, would lack a defining visual style. Growing up in provincial England, but in the days when BBC … Continue reading →

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Love on the Left Bank by Ed van der Elsken

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

It’s a brave book – especially one straight out of the style manual for reportage – that straight out tells you that narrative you are about to read is “entirely fictional and not related to any living person”. Welcome to … Continue reading →

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Light and colour

Posted on December 27, 2010 by

I’ve just dug out the flash for my camera as you may be able to tell by this sudden and unexpected lurch into high contrast, abstract colour photography. Don’t worry, it’s just a blip. I’ve also got a roll of … Continue reading →

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Deepest winter

Posted on December 24, 2010 by

Evgenia Arbugaeva is probably not that impressed that BAA can’t open the Heathrow runways some 72 hours after a dumping of snow but then she’s a native Siberian who has been following and photographing reindeer herders and apparently they have … Continue reading →

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These things that I have done

Posted on October 10, 2010 by

The paparazzi that pursued Princess Diana on her final trip – the one that ended with the crash in a Paris road tunnel and had the curious afterlife of a decade’s worth of Daily Express Monday morning headlines – didn’t … Continue reading →

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Almost familiar: Where Three Dreams Cross, Whitechapel Gallery

Posted on March 26, 2010 by

Where Three Dreams Cross is a major exhibition of photography from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan at the Whitechapel Gallery and if it doesn’t achieve its aim of revealing the history of that vast population’s photography over the last 150 years … Continue reading →

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Bright lights, big city

Posted on March 18, 2010 by

I admit it, I don’t get colour photography. This puts me out of step with pretty much everyone has ever picked up a camera and possibly explains why I don’t quite understand why so many of the shots on Flickr … Continue reading →

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