What we see when we look at a photograph is filtered through our personal experience. When photographs are ambiguous, it is our unique perspective that shifts how we view them. Work like Angela Kleis’ There’s Been a Terrible Accident series relies on the viewer to determine what’s real.
In Frame: September 23, 2013
Yes, this is an adorable dog in a swimming pool. Alone, this would be very cute, but when you add the person in the background it becomes a funny large dog sniffing a little person’s butt. Thanks gerdaindc, you can’t ask for more than that.
Friday Links
Our links this week include images from the world under a microscope, the raising of the Costa Concordia, and two examples of old becoming new again.
- One incredibly sad image from the Navy Yard tragedy this week spread quickly on social media. First it was deemed related to the shooting, then it was discredited, and finally it has been shown to be one of the victims of the horrible tragedy.
- The world is really creepy at the microscopic level and these photos can show you just how much. Steel and shark skin look very tough, and marijuana appears exactly like you would imagine.
- National Geographic launched a new photo blog this week called PROOF. If this collaborative video interview with 44 photographers is any indication, there will be a lot to look forward to on the new blog.
- If you’ve ever wondered about the history of your neighborhood, the reality is that sometimes you may not want to know. Photographer and historian Marc Hermann has taken crime scene images from the NY Daily news archive and merged them with photographs of the locations as they are now. Warning, there are very graphic images on this link.
- What is old is still new. Photographer Martin Parr has a new book out, but it is loaded with images from his early career in rural England.
- The Costa Concordia was finally raised this week, and the images of the 19-hour ordeal are fascinating.
- “The tiger shares 96% of its genes with the house cat.” Cuddling with your kitten may never be the same.
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Friday Links
A frog aiming for the moon, famous photographs and the way their prints started out before manipulation, photos of the massive flooding in Colorado, and wonderful events happening around town and more, are all ready for your Friday Link digestion.
- We have to start off the links this week with a tribute to the frog that has gone where no frog has gone before. Perhaps Kermit didn’t want Miss Piggy and the rest of the Pigs in Space to be there alone. RIP little Rocket Frog.
- “No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.” Can you trust anything you see in a photograph?
- While not a photography exhibit, this installation from James Turrell can teach photographers a thing or two about the way color and light react with one another.
- If you ever thought that images were not manipulated in the days of film, think again. These notes on the prints from Magnum’s master printer Pablo Inirio show the lengths he went to to make images shine. Handy tip: you can add notes like that to an image with a Photoshop layer, ensuring you make all the adjustments you need.
- The Denver Post shared a large collection of photographs showing the damage from flooding in areas Colorado.
- Some great events coming up this month. The Washington School of photography is hosting a used equipment sale on the 21st. Photographer Sandesh Kadur is sharing his work from the Himalayas with the International League of Conservation Photographers on the 25th. Former Washington Post photographer Andrea Bruce will be speaking at the Corcoran on the 26th. These events, and many other photography-related happenings can be found on our Calendar page.
- Film or digital? You don’t have to pick just one. One photographer is forced to rethink the way she shoots after damaging her digital camera, and the results surprised her.
- Don Bartletti made beautiful shots of an experimental airship called the Aeroscraft. We hope this ends better than the Hindenburg.
- The Banham Zoo recently named their two tiger cubs, and the pictures are just as adorable as you would imagine.
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