07w47:1 The Edwardians in Colour Posted November 20th, 2007 by timothy. 0 Comments Goodreads | 2007 week 47 number 1 (The Edwardians in Colour ) I found this series on the weekend was astounded by it. Albert Khan’s archive of very early colour photographs from the first two decades of the 20th Century. Related links below were previously on Goodreads (04w20:2; 04w22:1) and are of Charles Cushman’s archive and the images of Russia from the second decade of the 20th C. Part 01 A Vision of the World Part 02 Men of the World Part 03 Europe on the Brink Part 04 The Soldiers’ Story – The War Part 05 The Civilians’ Story The Empire That Was Russia http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ The Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp
06w28:1 Misc Posted July 12th, 2006 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List |2006 week 28 number 1 (misc) Here are links collected over the past couple of months. Long time subscribers remember a time when Goodreads was more frequent, and more topic oriented, but I have to say I’ve come to like the format of miscellaneous links more, in addition, I like taking my time to send them out. The net is so fickle and has become such a wonderful place for evaporated memory, it seems much more sane to sit on things for a bit and let the hype pass before sending the link ’round one more time again. If you disagree with me and would like more frequent emails, let me know. At the beginning, Goodreads functioned as a extension of my conversations, but over the past year (!) my conversations have dried up and this project has lost that perspective. Which is round-a-bout way of saying any input is welcome since I’m not getting it the old fashioned way any more. For those of you whose submissions are finally being included: apologies. But see above. Call for Wikipedia Content | Ever notice how Canadian art (and contemporary art in general) is underrepresented on Wikipedia? Consider this a call to do something about it. TVO broadcast Artist on Fire: The Work of Joyce Weiland on Masterworks last week and I tried to look her up on Wikipedia and found nothing, which I thought embarrassing and shameful. I know there are lots of people in the know on this list who could be putting their knowledge to good use by contributing to Wikipedia, so lets improve their art entries. Wikipedia used to let anyone create pages but nowadays you have to register. (If you can’t be bothered to register, send me what you’d like to see there and I’ll post it for you, since I’m registered. But I hope you’re not that lazy.) – Timothy Some submissions —————————————————————- Submitted by Joanne Todd in April (related to Easter) Activist Art and the Counter-Publich Sphere | Gregory Sholette http://goodreads.ca/docs/05_darkmattertwo.pdf Sumbitted by Amish Morell PDF 514K Andy Kaufman Lives www.andykaufmanlives.com “He (Andy Kaufman) wanted to collaborate on something really fantastic and enormous, but we could never figure out what it would be. He was especially fascinated with how I had gotten people to believe I was dead. He’d say, ‘How can I do that? I want to do that.'” -Alan Abel the world’s greatest hoaxer “If I do go ahead with my plan, I will do so by pretending to have cancer”–Andy Kaufman (speaking to Mimi Lambert) | (Related:Alan Abel Esquire story) Submitted by Timothy P. Barrus // This is pretty fucked up actually. I hope people have bought t-shirts! Interview with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez with Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/20/1330218 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/19/1336214 Sumbitted by Ben Skinner late last September End Subs; Am I forgeting one? Send me a nasty email and I’ll include it next time. —————————————————————- Aristophanes’ Birds http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/birds.htm Cancer surgery reveals 49-year-old ‘fossil’ fetus | Taiwan News http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/20000106/20000106s5.html Confronting the New Misanthropy | Frank Furedi http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CB021.htm Darren O’Donnell’s Social Acupuncture | RM Vaughan http://rmvaughanink.blogspot.com/2006/05/type-cast-16.html Email | Robert Fulford http://www.robertfulford.com/Email.html “In every generation people mourn the death of letter writing (our literary culture enjoys nothing more than signing the death certificate of an art form). Decades ago, reviewers discussing collections of letters felt they had to say that there would be few such books in the future because the hurry of modern life had killed the habit. But as those reviews were appearing, people were still busy writing letters. In the years that followed, good collections kept appearing — like the correspondence of publisher Jack McClelland last year. Letter writing didn’t die, it just became a minority taste. Now it’s regained much of its popularity. In 20 or 30 years, people will be reading books of e-mails (whether they’ll read them in the form of paper books is another question). Incidentally, anyone seeking that kind of immortality should be warned to keep hard copies of their letters on paper; disc memory is unstable and unreliable, and may even be unreadable on the equipment of the future.”Article date: January 2000 Man surfs the Net to death | China Daily http://tinyurl.com/l9m6s ‘Skeleton woman’ dead in front of TV for years | Telegraph UK http://tinyurl.com/rcvly Study: Using big words needlessly makes you seem stupider | Clive Thompson http://tinyurl.com/ryauz (Related) PM canes ‘rubbish’ postmodern teaching | Steve Lewis and Imre Salusinszky http://tinyurl.com/pmlhy “Associate Professor Morgan said the English literature syllabus in Western Australia was being replaced by a course called “Texts, traditions and cultures”, which had led to a large degree of dissatisfaction and low morale among teachers. “Literary theory covers a broad range of cultural and social theory from Marxism to post-structuralism, feminism and queer theory,” he said. “It’s very obscure. It encourages students to use buzzwords and jargon to cover up that they have no idea what they’re talking about. “Teachers are disappointed they are not teaching literature any more. They feel the subject has been hijacked by those who want to teach about race, gender and Marxism, rather than about literature.” Learning to Savor a Full Life, Love Life Included | Jane Gross http://tinyurl.com/ovy2s Bug Chasers: The men who long to be HIV+ | Gregory A. Freeman http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939950/bug_chasers (Article Date: January 2003 | One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read, and the last paragraph is my new measure of depravity.) Godwin’s Law | Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law “‘Godwin’s Law (also Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies) is, in Internet culture, an adage originated in 1990 by Mike Godwin that states: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.'” (An earlier edit of this article had this: ‘This law does not pertain to any discussion of U.S. President George W. Bush and his Cabinet, when that discussion involves the manipulation of the public through fear mongering.‘ Of course, it was gone after about an hour. – Timothy) Great Photographers on the Internet | Mike Johnston http://tinyurl.com/g5ycf What if some the 20th Century’s best photographers had posted their images on online forums? Guinness: World’s Largest Photo | AP http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71161-0.html?tw=rss.index (Convert a former airplane hangar into a camera obscura. Related self-promotion here) The North Korean Subset The Photos link was found some weeks ago, the other two appeared in response to the July 4 Missle Test. Rockets’ red glare eh? One newsman discussing the ‘type-o-dong’ failure on CNN the next day, ‘It is complex, it is rocket science … ‘A trip to North Korea – Photos | Artemii Lebedev http://www.tema.ru/travel/choson-1/ As much as I hate Toronto’s concrete ugliness, at least I’m not in Pyongyang. The link above is to the orginal Russian, this link has the translated captions. Bob Woodward goes to NK | Nightline http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2158379 The link is to video from ABC’s Nightline broadcast on 5 July 06 (link to audio mp3 podcast) Kim’s Catastrophe | Fred Kaplan http://www.slate.com/id/2145068/fr/rss/ Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power | John Markoff and Saul Hansell http://tinyurl.com/pfvz8 The future home of Wintermute? Lioness in zoo kills man who invoked God | Reuters http://tinyurl.com/gsgbn “A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal’s enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.” Born at 6am on 06/06/06, his mum was induced for 6 days, he weighs 6lbs 6oz and he’s called … Damien | Richard Smith http://tinyurl.com/r5ktd Friendship Puzzle http://tinyurl.com/h8e8d This is totally gay The in-betweeners | Philip Marchand http://tinyurl.com/quhkh “We speak constantly about the baby boomers and the ‘Greatest Generation,’ the veterans of D-Day, but we rarely refer to the generation born in-between.It was precisely this generation, however, that transformed our culture. From this demographic cohort came the men and women who became the icons of the 1960s and who have had no equivalent successors. They cast very long shadows.” Mass Natural | Michael Pollan http://tinyurl.com/m2zeh Wal-Mart’s beginning to sell organic food. A good thing, no? Ink in their veins | Bill Taylor http://tinyurl.com/lmb4f At 81, Bob Gladding still runs the presses at the family-owned Gazette in never-dull Tavistock Losing Their Edge? | Scott Jaschik http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/01/edge “In ‘Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?,’ the scholars examine evidence that the Internet ó by allowing professors to work with ease with scholars across the country and not just across the quad ó is leading to a spreading of academic talent at many more institutions than has been the case in the past. —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyUrl (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 12 July 2006 @ 2:08 PM
05w36:3 9/11 Posted September 11th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 36 number 3 (9/11) ——————————————————————— Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11 | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett http://www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb/case_911/pdfs/kodak.pdf “The attack on the World Trade Center is said to be the most photographed disaster in history. This is a city designed to look at itself from spectacular vantage points, whether from the top of Manhattan’s signature skyscrapers, high rise apartments, and tenements, from the street, along suspension bridges, on boats along the rivers surrounding the island, and from Queens, Brooklyn, New Jersey. The attack produced a spectacle that was photographed incessantly and seen instantaneously across the globe […] It has been said that for the present to become history, fifty years had to pass. But history’s famous actors, not least of which our own American presidents, work in the present to control their historical legacy. September 11 has created the powerful sense that one is a witness to one’s own experience and obligated to record it in some way. This takes historically specific forms tailored to the events themselves, whether Oyneg Shabes, Ringelblum’s project, or the events of September 11. Both involve the responsibility for ensuring that an historical experience will be remembered. Both raise the question of what should be collected and preserved. From a museological perspective, September 11 is everywhere. How do you collect a present that is already historical? Some institutions, like the Museum of the City of New York, have taken a slow approach to creating exhibitions that deal with the disaster, preferring more distance from the events and a more selective approach to the collection of iconic artifacts for telling the story. Not surprising, the designer the Museum of the City of New York has commissioned Ralph Appelbaum, who is famous for his storytelling approach to museums, to design the exhibitions in what were to be its new quarters in the Tweed Courthouse downtown – Mayor Bloomberg has nixed that plan. This and other museums have been collecting such iconic objects as the crushed fire truck, ‘a pair of muddy boots, respirators and masks, dust from the window-sills of Battery Park City, even the clothes worn by Mayor Giuliani,’ and a twisted Venetian blind. The Museum of the City of New York has even added the Wall of Prayer to its collection, a spontaneous assemblage of images and messages on a construction site fence at one of the entrances to Bellevue Hospital. This kind of collecting is more like the time capsule–items from the present in anticipation of the future–than archeology, though archeologists are vital to the forensic effort and that evidence will become part of the historical record. For some time, Ground Zero remained a crime scene. “NOTE: PDF, 37 pages, 1.75 MB —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Sunday 11 September 2005 @ 12:30 PM
04w22:1 Followups Posted May 23rd, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 22 number 1 (followups) ——————————————————————— Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection | Indiana University http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp “Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.” Followup to the posting (04w20:2) on pre-1945 colour photography. Virtual Worlds | Edward Castronova http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828 “In March 1999, a small number of Californians discovered a new world called ‘Norrath’, populated by an exotic but industrious people. About 12,000 people call this place their permanent home, although some 60,000 are present there at any given time. The nominal hourly wage is about USD 3.42 per hour, and the labors of the people produce a GNP per capita somewhere between that of Russia and Bulgaria. A unit of Norrath’s currency is traded on exchange markets at USD 0.0107, higher than the Yen and the Lira. The economy is characterized by extreme inequality, yet life there is quite attractive to many. The population is growing rapidly, swollen each each day by hundreds of emigres from various places around the globe, but especially the United States. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the new world is its location. Norrath is a virtual world that exists entirely on 40 computers in San Diego. Unlike many internet ventures, virtual worlds are making money — with annual revenues expected to top USD 1.5 billion by 2004 — and if network effects are as powerful here as they have been with other internet innovations, virtual worlds may soon become the primary venue for all online activity.” Followup on the Walrus Article by Clive Thompson (04w21:1) on the economics of internet gaming. (The paper that started it all). Sticking up for painting | Franklin Einspruch http://www.artblog.net/?name=2004-05-19-16-38-painting “I could go on, but my point is that even someone as pro-painting as I am recognizes that art is not a zero-sum game between painting and all other media. Maybe this Gopnik article is a reaction to David Hockney’s recent statements about the superiority of painting, but Gopnik’s thesis is flawed for the same reasons that Hockney’s is. Every medium has particular strengths and weaknesses – otherwise artists wouldn’t prefer one over the other – and all media can be used well or used badly. Gopnik’s attitude is as conservative as Hughes’s, just the other way around. To praise art for being unlike painting is as ridiculous as criticizing it for being unlike painting, and the Post article full of ridiculousness […] Gopnik has an additional problem here that makes him sound desperate while Hughes sounds authoritative – Hughes is writing about a committed painter, Gopnik is not.” Followup to the last posting loosely related to painting. —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself from this list, email subscribe@goodreads.ca emailed by Timothy on Sunday 23 May 2004 @ 2:23 PM
04w20:2 The Colourful Past Posted May 10th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 20 number 2 (the colourful past) This selection constitutes a “good see” over a good read. Two examples from the past of colour photography over the usual black and white. The first is from a recently published book of photographs from the late 1930s and early 1940s. The second selection is of Russia in 1910. I’ve sent two links for that one since the first details the process the photographer used at the time and the efforts made to produce the images, and the second offers thumbnails for quick browsing. – Timothy ——————————————————————— Poverty’s Palette | New York Times Magazine http://tinyurl.com/36cuq “In our mind’s eye, much of the past exists in black and white. This is particularly true of Depression-era America, in large part because of the unforgettable monochrome images created by the New Deal-sponsored photographers who traversed the country in the 1930’s and early 1940’s, chronicling the lives of its citizens. About 160,000 of their pictures are collected in the archives of the Library of Congress. Less well known are the roughly 1,600 of these photographs that were shot in color — most notably by the photographers Russell Lee and Jack Delano — using Kodachrome film, which Kodak introduced in 1936. This month, the Library of Congress and Harry N. Abrams are making a substantial collection of these images available for the first time in a book called Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43.” NOTE: The New York Times requires registration; but if you’ve looked at NYT content before and haven’t deleted your cookies, that may not be necessary. However if prompted, use the following username:goodreader100 and password: goodreads (courtesy of goodreads.ca). The Empire That Was Russia | The Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?prok:0:./temp/~pp_urXc: and http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ “In the early 1900s Prokudin-Gorskii formulated an ambitious plan for a photographic survey of the Russian Empire that won the support of Tsar Nicholas II. Between 1909-1912, and again in 1915, he completed surveys of eleven regions, traveling in a specially equipped railroad car provided by the Ministry of Transportation. […] This exhibition features a sampling of Prokudin-Gorskii’s historic images produced through the new process; the digital technology that makes these superior color prints possible; and celebrates the fact that for the first time many of these wonderful images are available to the public. ” —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself from this list, email subscribe@goodreads.ca http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Monday 10 May 2004 @ 1:56 PM
04w11:3 Photo vs. Painting Posted March 12th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 11 number 3 (photo vs. painting) ——————————————————————— The Richter Resolution | Jerry Saltz http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/jsaltz/saltz3-9-04.asp “In defense of the staggeringly radical act of really looking, the wildness of the imagination, and the limitlessness of pictorial invention, I propose a 48-month moratorium on the reproduction of photographs via overhead, opaque, or slide projectors in paintings (this means tracing too). Call this the Richter Resolution […] Like brushes and rulers, projectors are tools. This is about how these tools are used, which lately has become unadventurous.[…] By now, almost everyone would agree that the traditional Warhol-Richter-Walter Benjamin defense of the use of photography in painting, the Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction argument, and the chatter about ‘interrogating representation’ or ‘investigating the problem of the photograph,’ isn’t just dated, it’s shtick. We all know that photography is a remarkable and remarkably complex way of seeing and picturing the world; that the space between the photograph, the photographer and the thing photographed is incredibly rich; that the graphic field of the photograph is often scintillatingly alive, specific and very post-Renaissance; and that reproducing photographs in paintings once represented a significant repudiation of dearly held beliefs.” The camera today? You can’t trust it. | Jonathan Jones and Gerard Seenan http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1161737,00.html “David Hockney, the celebrated pop artist who has worked extensively in photography, has fallen out of love with the medium because of its digital manipulation and now believes it is a dying art form. […] ‘We can’t go back: Kodak got rid of 22,000 people when it ended its chemical developing. You’ve no need to believe a photograph made after a certain date because it won’t be made the way Cartier-Bresson made his. We know he didn’t crop them – he was the master of truthful photography. But you can’t have a photographer like that again because we know photographs can be made in different ways.’ […] The impact of computerised images was most strongly brought to his attention much closer to home: ‘My sister, who is just a bit older than me, she’s a retired district nurse, she’s just gone mad with the digital camera and computer – move anything about. She doesn’t worry about whether it’s authentic; she’s just making pictures.’ ” Disposable cameras | Jonathan Jones http://www.artdaily.com/news.asp?gid=393 “It adds fuel to his belief that painting can do things photography can´t, even when it comes to telling the truth about war. Everyone used to assume photographs of war were ‘true’ in a way photography can´t be. But Hockney argues that the digital age has made such a conception of photography obsolete. You can change any image now in any way you want. He once saw what a famous LA photographer´s portrait of Elton John looked like before it was retouched. The difference, he says, was ‘hilarious’. And now everyone can do this. […] If photography is no longer blunt fact, why not accept that painting has equal status? War photography is as fictional as painting, but painting can express profound insights denied photography. The famous photograph of a Russian soldier placing the red flag over Berlin is an example: ‘With the man putting the flag on top of the Reichstag – how did the photographer happen to get there first?’ wonders Hockney. By contrast, Goya´s image of the executions of May 3 1808 has a truth that transcends whether or not he was an eyewitness. Hockney thinks Picasso, when he painted his extremely anti-naturalist Massacres in Korea in the 1950s, was making this very argument against photography: instead of random glimpses of violence, Picasso´s painting presents his understanding of the war. ” —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself from this list, email tim@instantcoffee.org emailed by Timothy on Friday 12 March 2004 @ 4:08 PM
