Over the couple of weeks it took me to shoot through the last of the Porta, I took few random shots around the house, and a few more out the front or side window of the car…
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Kodak Porta: abstractions
Ok. Enough photobooks, lets look at some pictures.
unboxing ‘An American Century of Photography’
If you hurry, you might be able to still get your hands on this encyclopedic text for cheap… The Online Photographer scored some kind of a deal with the Nelson-Atkins Museum for his readers, and I picked up An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital: the Hallmark Photographic Collection for a song + …
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unboxing NEOPRIME Contemporary Fine Art Photography, #2
As a bit of a point/counterpoint to Photography Is Magic, let’s take a look at Martin Dietrich & Marius Vieth‘s NEOPRIME: Fine Art Photography, issue 2.
Charlotte Cotton (ed.) ‘Photography is Magic’
The recent glut of photobook purchases continues… Charlotte Cotton’s Photography is Magic is something of a departure for me… I have a variety of photobooks: personal projects; documentary stuff; straight photography; art photography; experimental stuff; etc. But Photography is Magic is different… It’s nominally photography, but most of the photographs look like documentary evidence of performance art, …
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Alekey Titarenko – ‘The City Is A Novel’
Thanks again to Ted Forbes for pointing me to another decent photography book: Alexey Titarenko’s The City is a Novel. Ted knows a good bit more about Titarenko and his style than I do, so if you want a favorable and fairly thorough look at the book, go and have a look. And apologies… I know …
The C.L.A.M. And The Rose
I’ve felt a bit uninspired by my actual photography practice of late. I was ill for a week or so, but it went back farther than that, really, back to early January even. I think it had something to do with diet, maybe, or rest, or exercise, but none of that has changed much. Allahu Alim. …
