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Reports and articles by Leo Hsu.
David Burnett on Orphan Works Legislation
Written by Leo   
02 Jul 2008

© family, David Burnett 1963
"We need to think about the longevity of our work and how it is treated in the marketplace over time. 

They are trying to take our rights and it will happen if we don’t act. 

In a time which has seen enormous concentrations of power in the media and communications world, the ability of individual artists and photographers to determine what happens to their work is paramount."

- David Burnett, Co-founder Contact Press Images

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Alternative processes as media critique (f295 cont'd)
Written by Leo   
01 Jun 2008
from Situations Seen from a Considerable Distance © Jerry Spagnoli While the focus of the f295 symposium was on the relationship between techniques and execution, there was also a powerful thread of critique in much of the work that was presented.  Speakers Robert Hirsch, Jill Enfield, and Jerry Spagnoli all have produced work that speak to the limitations of media conventions, and suggest that there are risks and consequences to accepting conventional media language at face value.
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Toy cameras and tintypes: the f295 symposium
Written by Leo   
29 May 2008
Reverie © 2000 France Scully Osterman The f295 symposium and workshops taking place in Pittsburgh this week have brought together quite a few very different kinds of photography.  There is lensless photography (photograms), pinhole photography, and traditional or historical chemical processes that are now thought of as nontraditional or "alternative" including various wet plate processes and printing techniques; there is also some attention to the reconstructed aesthetics of toy cameras such as the Diana+ and Holga.
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