February 25, 2004
Some Photography
Alex Soth had a show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography last year. The photographs were amazing, especially if you think about making them with an 8x10 camera. His pictures will also be in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Take a look at those Stephen Shore images from Uncommon Places again, think about lugging the 8x10 up to the counter to make a picture of your breakfast & then slap yourself on the forehead & go "jeez" or "dang".
Simen Johan had images on the cover of Aperture, maybe. Then he had a show at Yossi Milo Gallery in Manhattan. Mostly great, some just really good images of what-if scenarios involving children & childhood.
As an aside, I've been making an effort to say "dang" more often lately, I'm not sure why. And also...if any of you punctuation hawks are wondering why I keep putting the period outside of the end quotes I'd like to say to you that I think it looks better that way. (Unless I'm remembering wrong & that's the right way to do it but I don't think so.)