Welcome to twentytwofifty. This is where I will be posting useful photo information I come across during the semester, things like links to photographers' websites, upcoming exhibitions and events, opportunities to show your work, recommended reading, and much more.

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Monday, September 5, 2011

camera as eye . . .

What percentage of art-viewing these days is done through the eyes of a camera? Click here to read what Roberta Smith of the New York Times has to say about this phenomenon:

". . . a photograph of a person photographing an artist’s photograph of herself playing a role is a few layers of an onion, maybe the kind to be found only among picture-takers at an exhibition."

A man photographs an exhibit by Cindy Sherman.

Capturing "Hippy Dialectics" by Nathaniel Mellors.

An interactive piece by Norma Jeane.

Visitors at the Venice Biennale capture Urs Fisher's statue.

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