Blog Review: Aperture Magazine Blog

Aperture Magazine Blog

 

• 1/1 Preview: Annette Booth on Rinko Kawauchi  by:Annette Booth October 15, 2013

• Aperture was created in 1952 in New York as a “common ground for the advancement of photography,”. Aperture posts on the blog as a daily blog. Besides posting a blog Aperture publishes four magazines a year and twelve to fifteen photo books. Aperture photography blog is just a small section of the company, many focuses of the company include the magazine, photo books, and photography exhibits. Since Aperture has so many focuses in the company the site can be confusing and scattered on the home page, but once you located the section you are looking for the site is fairly easy.

 

• The blog is a promotion for Rinko Kawauchi’s photograph Untitled(2013) that was featured in a silent auction that occurred on October 28. The blog is written by Annette Booth, Booth discusses how she first discovered Kawauchi in 2006 while doing a project for her mentor. Booth stated that “the mystical beauty of her photographs struck me like nothing else I saw at the fair”. I can relate to how Booth felt because in the large variety of blog posts when I saw Kawauchi’s photograph I was immediately intrigued. The pastel colors popped on the neutral background of the Aperture blog, and stood out among the rest of the blog posts.
• http://www.aperture.org/blog/auction-preview-kawauchi/ 

Blog Review: Glasstire

• Glasstire
• Moving Pictures at Brand 10 & andX September 27, 2013 Matt Szal

• Glasstire is a nonprofit online blog created in January of 2001 that focuses on art in Texas and Southern California.  Glasstire is created by multiple editors and bloggers with Michael Bise as the Featured Cloumnist. The blog is visually appealing and focuses on many types of arts besides photography.  The posts are typically five to six times a week.
• Brand 10 is a nonprofit art gallery in Fort Worth that is closing in December. Moving Pictures is an exhibit that will feature many artists and works that have been featured in previous years There will be video works, installations, and filmed performances. This article was interesting for me since I live in the Fort Worth area. I have never been to this gallery, but I attempt to attend before the closing in December. 
• http://glasstire.com/2013/09/27/moving-pictures/

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Blog Review- Lenscratch

Lenscratch

Dirk Fletcher: Shooting Skyward October 6,2013

Lenscratch is a contemporary daily photography blog. It was created by Aline Smithson in 2007. Since 2007 Lenscratch has featured the work of over 2,000 photographers. Lenscratch is organized by a side bar that features recent posts. The blog is visually appealing and extremely informative due to high number of posts.

 The article is about photographer and Harrington College of Design professor, Dirk Fletcher. Dirk directed the students in his class through and experiment that would send four plastic Holga lenses into space. There were many factors that Dirk and his students took into consideration before sending the camera into space, including how to protected the camera, how to attach a GPS, and how to protect the cooler which the camera would be traveling in. Eventually the weather balloon was attached to the cooler and the image was taken over twenty miles into the air. I thought the article was extremely interesting. I had actually already heard about this from the YouTube video that Dirk published, but it was interesting to read what all was taken into consideration for this experiment to happen.

 

http://lenscratch.com/2013/10/dirk-fletcher-shooting-skyward/

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