Documentation from the two most recent XINEMA screenings in the garden of UNIT/PITT
7/22/24
Graphic Effects by Photography — Otto Croy (PDF)
A great manual on how to produce graphic effects using cameras and darkrooms. I'm all for photography becoming increasingly contaminated by processes and materials used in graphic design and printmaking. Just as it does when combined to serve a function like a movie poster or advertisement. But without being completely beholden to that purpose.. Signal vs. noise.
Croy writes in the opening statement:
"The photograph has long occupied an assured place in commercial art. The techniques of photo-graphics, especially, open up completely new vistas, because they achieve optical effects never known before. This book shows how you can conjure with photographs. It discovers new fields, offers surprising professional tips and, last, but not least, suggests ideas for working creatively and fruitfully with the knowledge gained. Photographs are an aid to drawing-photographic techniques enliven the imagination and are a welcome addition to commercial art."
7/16/24
I am a camera
This is a music playlist that Francesca & I put together for the launch of issue two of our magazine Le Chauffage which revolved around the now antiquated format of the photo essay. All the tracks in the playlist are about photography, too.
An excerpt from the letter from the editors written by Emile Rubino explains:
The second issue of Le Chauffage contains photographs and texts, photographs of text, photographs as text and vice versa. Loosely thinking through the format of The Photo Essay celebrated by John Szarkowski in an eponymously titled exhibition at MoMA in 1965, this issue considers some of the artistic possibilities that can be found in such an archaic and historically male-dominated form.
Many of the contributions that make up this second issue are not photo essays per se. But each one of them considers the printed page as a space in its own right. The magazine becomes an interior where words and images entertain a malleable and distinctly porous relationship. At times, it is also a space where artists and writers from different cities were invited to meet and collaborate.
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