Friday, March 27, 2009

Recording the crisis

Why we’re taking photographs of beautiful people, whilst we are in the midst of a paradigm shift and the economic crisis is spreading?
Brain Ulrich shows himself surprised on his blog that not more artists react to environmental conditions. Inspired by his post Cara Philips wrote an interesting post The nature and purpose of photography, discussing why the contemporary photographic art scene behaves in this passive way. In the course of reading her interesting post, I came across some statements regarding differentiations of photography: art photography, amateur works, etc. Well – to be honest, I’m still confused about what in photography is denoted as art, as amateur work or scrap. But that’s an other story.

Never mind. Independently, I started taking photos of the artifacts of ongoing occurrences.

Selected Exposure: Car storage at a car production site, Graz
© Christian Wagner

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Lay Flat – A new print publication on photography

Lay Flat aims for publishing the best in contemporary fine art photography and writing on the medium. The first issue “remain in light” comprises works of Tim Davis, Darius Himes, Cara Phillips, Shane Lavalette, Eric William Carroll and Jason Fulford.

6400 ASA pick: Tim Davis

Sunday, March 8, 2009

A fist full of upcoming movies 2009

TOKYO - THE MOVIE
dierected by Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax, Michael Gondry



13 TZAMETI
directed by Gela Babluani



MILK
directed by Gus Van Sant



CHE - THE MOVIE
directed by Steven Sonderbergh



HUNGER
directed by Steve Mc Queen


Finally a blockbusters from which i currently don't know what we can expect from it: Inglorious Bastards, the new movie from Quentin Tarantino.