“My running diary is a stack of 8 ½ x 11” papers printed with a calendar grid.”
Kim Beil’s running diary for our series, Gym Week.
https://t.co/FR48sKA1xO
Correspondence Course: Letters on Photography is a new essay series co-authored with @kalophile. During lockdown, Kim and I (who had never met) became photographic pen pals. Our eight letters are now part of @Photomonitor’s Experiments series. Part 1 here: https://t.co/Hl2bB8hrlE
With Kim Beil (@kalophile) in the bookshop @TPGallery. Double whammy of our two little books on the front desk! Anonymous Objects (published by @MACK_books) and More than a Snapshot (published by @4CornersBooks). Called for a silly s(h)elfie…
@FlakPhoto @arenasand3 Sorry I’m late to this thread! I’d recommend Charlotte Cotton’s Fashion Image Revolution about recent work in fashion. And LACMA’s recent exhibition Objects of Desire: https://t.co/Q9TMav0thx
We are delighted to announce 📣 More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets by @AnnebellaPollen — the tenth title in our beloved Irregulars series.
Out this May, pre-order your copy here ⬇️
https://t.co/KjAILAHI1J
The photograph was by Ansel Adams. Its title: “High Country Crags and Moon, Sunrise, Kings Canyon National Park.” Its date: “circa 1935.” Could an art historian find out exactly when and where it was taken? https://t.co/idWbsen6ob
In all the photo how-to guides I’ve studied, I’ve never seen this set-up recommended for a miniature mountain scene. And yet, some guy figured it out. Imagine that.
A new micro (hah) trend: miniatures!!! I feel like this could be seen as the nexus point between scenic backgrounds, trompe l'oeil, and monumental minimalism—a little silly, definitely eye-catching, and leaning into the larger surrealist zeitgeist.
I have so many questions: “The core dataset was trained on LAION-Aesthetics…created with a new CLIP-based model that filtered LAION-5B based on how ‘beautiful’ an image was, building on ratings from the alpha testers of Stable Diffusion.” https://t.co/pJD5eEpsxA
This book makes you see the whole world differently. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to talk about it with two fantastic artists, Josh Smith and Vanessa Woods: Talking in the Library - Ken Graves and Eva Lipman's "Restraint and Desire" https://t.co/pJBeV1Zgm1