Recommended Dosage
Posted on January 11, 2005
It's been a while since I last visited Ryan Flynn's site lighttight and after a few clicks I immediately had to add him to my links page. I'm not sure about Ryan's photography background, or even the equipment he's using, as his info page is pretty slim, but I expect to see his name in a magazine pretty soon if it hasn't yet already. Just check out some of his portraits and see for yourself.
Mooncruise Magazine is another favourite as of late. The mixture of photography and music coexist perfectly side by side. Webites with music usually bug me to no end, but you'll want to pause the iTunes when browsing the ten mooncruise issues. Nudes, architecture, abstract, it's all there.
A visit to Shibuya's Tower Records before the holiday helped me decide on Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places: The Complete Works as my next photobook purchase. From Amazon's product description,
Shore approaches his subjects with cool objectivity, the photographs seemingly devoid of drama or commentary. Yet each image has been distilled, retaining precise internal systems of gestures in composition and light through which a parking lot emptied of people, a hotel bedroom, or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance.
Tower records seems to be a great place to check out photography, design and other graphic books, though I'd have to be slightly mad to pay their prices.
And as always featured.nu provides a steady diet of fresh photography links from around the world well worth your time.
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Stephen Shore is amazing- You ought to try and find his text on photography called "The Nature of Photographs". If you can't find it anywhere then I will let you borrow mine or at least I can make a photo copy of the whole thing..
::posted by: john sypal at January 12, 2005 08:09 AM
John, I think I recall you mentioning this text on the mailing list a while ago. Yeah, if we can ever get another field trip together I'd like to borrow that from you. I see Amazon lists it, but just a tincy wincy bit expensive.
::posted by: mark at January 13, 2005 07:59 AM
