A hearty thanks and farewell to our guest bloggers, Andrew Hetherington (www.whatsthe jackanory.com ) and Michael David Murphy (2point8.whileseated.org ) for their insightful and enthralling posts from the New York Festival over the past four days.
Written by Andrew Hetherington
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19 May 2008
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I was pretty much wiped out by the time the weekend rolled around. I feel like I have overdosed on everything photography and am ready for a stint in rehab.
"Chisel", one of the four main exhibitions at the New York Photo Festival, presents contemporary photography that “converses with painters and sculptors”. "The Ubiquitous Image" shows work that is conceptual and sits squarely in the art world, and there is no suggestion of a desire to document in any traditional authored sense.
Written by Michael David Murphy
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18 May 2008
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In looking over my notes for the past four days, there's no right way to push them toward coherence. Powerpoint was invented for a reason, right? Here goes; a bulleted re-cap of NYPH08
Written by Andrew Hetherington
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17 May 2008
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Yeah Friday was a wet one. It was pretty nasty out so to be honest we hunkered down a bit and tried to stay off the sodden streets as much as possible. Its still only day 2 but feels like I am trapped in a photo bubble. Haven’t even seen a newspaper or anything. What’s going on in the world ? Has Angelina had the twins yet ? Man I am so out of the loop.
Various Photographs, the exhibition curated by Tim Barber, occupies the smallest space at the New York Photo Festival, but contains the most images. The show is, as Barber offers in his statement, "an absurdist rant, a free-form poem, a run-on sentence, a splintered report on recent histories." New Typologies, curated by Martin Parr, uses groups of pictures to make an argument about how photographs can act as a conduit between information and knowledge.
Written by Michael David Murphy
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16 May 2008
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About 72 minutes into the inaugural New York Photo Festival, something happened that I can't completely explain, but it was the kind of thing that makes you look around the room to see if anyone else has fallen out of their chair.
Written by Andrew Hetherington
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16 May 2008
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So we stayed the duration and did a full program on day 1 of NYPH 08 taking in some of the pavilions, satellite shows and photographer seminars. First impressions are positive. I kept getting people coming up and asking me what I was most looking forward to or what they should see. To be honest the biggest thrill has been meeting friends, making new friends, running into a personal hero or two and just hanging out. My was it a gorgeous spring day yesterday and one couldn’t help but feel how lucky one was to be out and about enjoying it and taking in a bit of photography while we were at it.
This evening at the NYPH, Daniel Power hosted "Book Soup", profiling the work of six photographers who have been published by powerHouse, many of them more than once. A short sample of each photographer's work was projected, after which the photographers took the stage to talk about their work.
Written by Andrew Hetherington
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15 May 2008
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So we gave it a whirl last night at the opening festivities for NYPH 08 . First up was Vernissage aka the special VIP opening party at the powerHouse arena. With a 6.00pm call time things started out mellow enough but the space soon got plenty packed plenty quick.
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