UTS is on the search for the next generation of photographers and situated media designers.
Three prizes (totalling $2000) will be awarded to the best photographers and situated media designers currently studying Year 11 or 12. Submit your entries by 5pm, Friday 23 July 2010.
Finalists will have their work exhibited at UTS and the winners will be announced in mid-August.
Full details here: http://dab.uts.edu.au/psm/comp/
Good luck!
Please join the first year students of UTS’s Photography and Situated Media and Interior Design programs for the opening of Hydra.
The Archigram Archive Project is now online and includes the entire catalogue of output from seminal design group Archigram. Their work is an inspiration for any designer who studies space, image, experimentation and activism. This online archive appears to be an unparalleled free resource for study and exploration.
A debt of gratitude is owed to the EXP (the Research Centre for Experimental Practice at the University of Westminster).
New York Times art review of the current Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art here.
Extensive MoMA website for the exhibition (a must see)
Paws up! Who feels like an under-achiever after reading this article from Dazed Digital??
Famed rock photographer Jim Marshall died last week at 74 in New York.
Johnny Cash at San Quentin prison, 1969
Polaroid is on a comeback. National Public Radio (from America) has the story.
Something’s in the air, major new photography exhibitions are opening everywhere. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is opening Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography on 7 May.
For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photographypresents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms,a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.
Ilse Bing. Self-Portrait in Mirrors. 1931.
Enigmatica is Melbourne-based (?) designer Kit Webster‘s amazing installation combining image, sound, space and light.
(from Today and Tomorrow)
Dennis Hopper, the Photographer
Edward Ruscha, 1964
NPR discusses Dennis Hopper’s diverse career, including his extensive photography obsession.
Dennis Hopper, the Photographer