Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
Irina Rozovsky: This is Russia
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I think these photos of museum guards from Irina Rozovsky’s This is Russia exhibit are splendid.
Go see more of her work.
Simone de Beauvoir, Art Shay and The Truth in Gestures
Monday, September 1st, 2008
About a week ago I heard, in the background of my day, a NPR interview with the photographer, Art Shay, who took these famous naked pictures of Simone de Beauvoir.
I cannot find the interview now. There may be better articles than this out there, but I could not find one readily. I also could not find one that did not dilute the debate about whether the magazine fails to honor an influential theorist for her works or succeeds in honoring, as a part of her work, her courageous and unselfconscious sexual freedom, by commenting on “how nice her ass does look.”
Does this mean that if her ass was wrinkled and frumpy the truth about the gesture would be easier to come by?
KW
That’s a Negative
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Well, I’ve made it pretty clear that I loved Your Daily Awesome, Chas Bowie’s blog of daily awesomeness that he posted on daily for one year. When he stopped posting on YDA to pursue his more specific photography interests, I was sad.
Now, he has a new blog about “photographic history, criticism, and theory,” and I am happy.
What can I say? Human emotions can be simple.










