http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/ 'On the Genealogy of Morals']]> en-us thoughtfactory@internode.on.net Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:00 +0930 http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/05/desiring-real-p.html The invention of the digital camera has meant that photography has become an accessible art form for so many people. By the first decade of the 21st century film-based photography had become a niche activity. One critical reaction to the new world of digital photography comes from Richard White, an... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/05/ian-macdonald-n.html Ian Macdonald graduated from Elam, Auckland in 1975 majoring in photography. He has exhibited and been published consistently since and is known for his photography on New Zealand environmental issues. He ran Real Pictures Gallery during the 1980s and more recently the Matakana Pictures Gallery. Ian Macdonald Whale Stranding at... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/05/gerhard-richter-1.html Cathedral Square, Milan is one of Gerhard Richter's largest figurative paintings. The work features the northern side of the cathedral square, onto which the shopping centre Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II faces. The façade of the 19th century Galleria covers a large area of the painting’s left side. This is a... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/05/judith-crispin.html Judith Crispin or Hsien-Ku 's The Cartographer's Illusion explores how our own memories, our own experiences, overlay the act of seeing itself. The photograph becomes like a prism which transforms the light which passes through it – a language of symbols carved in light. Judith Crispin The High Wall, 2011,... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/05/jeanmichels-baq.html One of my favorites of Jean-Michel’s Baquiat's work. The background is more metallic, lighter, more spectral. Jean Michel Basquiat, Riding with death, 1988 This painting has been grounded with a dull, gray paint, a departure from the colorful backgrounds the artist typically employed. In the work’s center, a faceless figure... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/04/photography-and-1.html The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, has an exhibition entitled Photography and the American Civil War. This war—its documentation, its soldiers, its battlefields—was the arena of the camera's debut in America. George N. Barnard, Destruction of Hood's Ordinance Train, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 1964 This... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/04/neil-pardington.html Neil Pardington's photograph Mammal Attic #1, Canterbury Museum, shows a room (barely) containing a taxidermied elephant with an ominous tear in its shoulder, and in front of it a shark – its fin visible behind a set of steel shelves. Neil Pardington, Mammal Attic #1, Canterbury Museum, 2007, Lambda/C-print, from... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/04/wetplate-collod-1.html Sally Mann’s series ‘Battlefields’ uses a wet-plate collodion process, as can be seen in the edges and streaks and cracked glass of the images. These pictures are of empty landscapes that refer back to the American civil war. This is a study of the grounds of Antietam, the site of... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/03/life-on-the-urb.html The Ministerial Advisory Committee for the Melbourne Metropolitan Strategy has published Melbourne - Lets talk about the future" and it raises the issues of two Melbournes: an inner core of opportunity and vibrancy, and a massive outer ring of relative disadvantage and exclusion. Roz Hansen, the chairperson of the Ministerial... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/03/an-emergent-art.html Alan Rapp in Is architectural photography art photography? at Critical Terrain refers to the contemporary photographer, Tim Griffith, to make his point that today both architecture and photography are in their own states of disarray and redefinition, making their current fusion especially fluxy. Tim Griffith, Ausstellung Babel Town in der... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/03/edward-weston-c.html Remembering Edward Weston and his photographs around Point Lobos, California: Edward Weston, Angular Roc, Pebbles, Weston beach, Point Lobos, 1948 His interest is patterns and natural forms aught the dramatic patterns of trees, rocks, pool and shore falomng this part of the California coast.... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/02/leunig-autumn.html I welcome autumn. We can say goodbye to the summer heat. It's been a hot summer across southern Australia. Leunig Autumn mean cooler temperatures and the start of the rain. However, summer in southern Australia extends well into March. We have just started a fortnight of hot weather.... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/02/paul-kenny-lonb.html Paul Kenny has photographed a stone wall near the ruined village of Lonbain, on the Applecross peninsula in Wester Ross in the Scottish highlands. The ruined village is a remnant of the clearances of the 1780's. Kenny says: Above the beach, on a plateau above the shoreline, is a sheepfold... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/02/joyce-evans-lan.html Joyce Evan's interpretation of the Australian landscape involves a‘seeking out the beauty, synergy and the spiritual in the everyday‘. Joyce Evans, Rain Dreaming, from Imaging the Spiritual, 1980-2010, Evans took up photography professionally after closing her Church Street gallery space in Melbourne in 1982.... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2013/02/the-creative-cl.html Geoff Mulgan in Is There a Creative Class? assesses the work of Richard Florida on the creative class and the creative economy. The assumption her eis the insight that the creative economy is continuing to grow in importance, and every city should have a serious strategy for growing its creative...