Foto8 in the Big Apple

Written by admin 29 Apr 2008 Blogs

We're looking forward to the New York Photo Festival (14-18 May), as we'll be unveilling our new Festival Report section of this site, with expanded coverage of the festival, including exclusive interviews with the founders and curators plus all the news and exhibition reviews from our dedicated bloggers.


Are you going to the NYPH too?
We'd like to see your comments, pictures or video clips too. The best ones will be published online, and everyday we'll pick our favourite comment to win a year's subscription to 8 magazine.

Email words or pictures (low-res) to foto8festivals [at] gmail.com, login to foto8.com and comment on our articles, or look out for Lally, Leo or Grace in the Media Lounge. See you there!

 

All Hail the Holga?

Written by admin 21 Apr 2008 Blogs



Some of us in the Foto8 office are infatuated with our Holgas -  cheap, medium format, toy cameras, or 'plastic fantastic wonders' according to the lomography website. 

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Read on to see our personal favourite Holga shots and find out how to show us yours…

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Interview with Carl Chiarenza

Written by David Brittain 21 Apr 2008 Blogs

Carl Chiarenza
Continuing our series of interviews with influential photography magazine editors, David Brittain interviews Carl Chiarenza, editor of Contemporary Photographer from 1968–69. 

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agnes b. launch

Written by admin 19 Apr 2008 Blogs

agnes4.jpg
They said invite a lot of people, and we did. The agnes b. store in Floral Street, central London was packed on Thursday night for the opening of The Cover Stories – a FOTO8 exhibition and launch of the new 8 magazine. The FOTO8 faithful, their friends, families and the foto-graphically inclined lapped up the cava-guava and took in the show.

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New Horizons

Written by Guy Lane 17 Apr 2008 Blogs

Two markedly different New York exhibitions, of new work by Sze Tsung Leong  (left) and Lee Friedlander, test the potential of landscape photography as a vehicle for the exploration of diverse – global, local, political and pictorial - concerns.

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DIY Pinholes from Corbis

Written by Lauren Heinz 16 Apr 2008 Blogs


New to the Corbis website, you can now download, print and assemble these funky pinhole cameras.

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Those are some nice books!

Written by Leo Hsu 13 Apr 2008 Blogs

painting, photography, film

This is not the cover of the next issue of 8, but rather the cover of Moholy-Nagy's classic Painting, Photography, Film...
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Lesley Martin - The Ubiquitous Image

Written by Max Houghton 11 Apr 2008 Blogs

At 76 Front Street

 

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umbrico.jpg Curating a high-profile show for the New York Photo Festival has been a “nailbiting” experience for Lesley Martin, not least because of the huge scale of some of the work she has chosen to exhibit.

“I’m used to working to make things small and flat,” says Martin, book publisher at the Aperture Foundation, “so I was very excited by the space.”


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Kathy Ryan - Chisel

Written by Max Houghton 11 Apr 2008 Blogs

At St. Ann’s Warehouse

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© Roger Ballen
Kathy Ryan
, the award-winning New York Times picture editor, has curated an exhibition of ten artists called Chisel for the New York Photo Festival, bringing together artists whose work evokes the painterly or the sculptural. The idea evolved from thinking about Roger Ballen’s ‘psychologically provocative’ latest studio-based work.

 

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Martin Parr - New Typographies

Written by Max Houghton 11 Apr 2008 Blogs

At Smack Mellon and Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)

 

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© Donovan Wylie
From the unlikely sounding Tarantino-meets-Disney venues Smack Mellon and Dumbo Arts Center, Magnum photographer and curator of New Typologies Martin Parr lays out his stall for the Future of Photography.

In employing the word ‘typology’, Parr is evoking a tradition in which the best-known exponents are Bernd and Hilda Becher. “Yes, it’s been around for a long time, but people are using it to great effect at the moment,” says Parr. “Photographing something over and over again can bring an extra level of rigour to certain subject matters. It’s not new, but no-one has isolated it as a specific trend.”

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