At International Center of Photography, in New York, Hiroshima GroundZero, an exhibition of pictures taken in Hiroshima in November 1945. Pictures were taken by a civil engineer, involved in the “United States Strategic Bombing Survey” programme.
Mois : juin 2011
Croassroads in cultural studies
The 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies will be held in Paris, France, from July 2nd to 6th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Unesco.
There’s also a Call for papers.
Nazi-Fotoalbums
A new album with pictures of WWII, nazi side, has surfaced in New York. Shown on different newspapers’ blogs in Usa and Germany, has been seen by a huge number of people that contributed to solve some “mysteries”.
Pictures are an interesting, but not so unusual, mix of war, prisoners, ruines and private portraits.
Lytro: a new technology for photos
Photographs record light. But there are different ways to do that. And apparently a new technology is able to record more information about the light in a scene: color, intensity and also vector direction of the rays. This means, among others elements, that pictures will not be a given and fixed data any more. You will be able to change focus, perspective and to shift from 2D to 3D AFTER having taken the photo.
This “magic” camera is called Lytro. I learned about it in ben’s blog.
Intersection of Photography and Architecture
A new, special issue of Visual Resources has come out. This number is dedicated to “Intersection of Photography and Architecture“. It is edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari and Paolo Scrivano.
Camera obscura. Histoire des techniques photo
A new, very interesting on line tool. I quote from the homepage:
www.camera-obscura.org
is a digital library on the history photographic techniques. Several thousand books public domain will be available soon online for free with the possibility of advanced research directly in the book content.
Photographies orientalistes
Working on women representation in colonial context, I obviously came up against “Orientalism”. Leaf through the Gors & Delettrez’s catalogue for “Livres, Manuscrits & Photographies Orientalistes” auction was quite interesting.
Welcome, Else!
A new photo magazine was born: Else. It is produced by Musée de l’Elysée and claims to “break with an history of photography built on masterpieces”. You can leaf through it on line.
Auguri, Ando
I waited for the right day and… it passed by…
Anyway, yesterday one of the most original and interesting italian photographer and scholar turned 90.
In Smargiassi’s blog, he tells us something about Gilardi and about a very special party…
Images singulières
A Sète, France, a festival dedicated to documentary photography.
Exhibitions, lectures, meetings, workshops and much more.
Professor of History of Photography
Anyone out there willing to teach History of photography in Savannah?
Travail et création artistique en régime numérique
A few links to Culture visuelle about the recent conference on “Travail et création artistique en régime numérique“, a reflexion on artistic work in the digital era.
Le prix d’un image, by Thierry Dehesdin.
Photographie(s) et numérique(s). Du singulier au plurier, by Sylvain Maresca.
Création en régime numérique, by André Gunthert.
And thanks to all the bloggers of Culturelle visuelle. Merci 🙂