Aftermath Project Tuesday January 11, 2022
Canadian indigenous photographer.Kali Spitzer has been named the recipient of the 2022 Aftermath Project grant supporting her project “An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance: Kin,” a tintype portrait series made in collaboration with the sitters that will document modern Indigenous identity, community and resiliency. “I am part of a generation that is hugely affected by settler colonialism, this land’s histories and residential schools (boarding schools),” she notes, adding, “Indigenous existence and resistance today, is the aftermath of 1492.” Read the full Story >>
Slate Monday January 10, 2022
The Kodak Flashcube—a rotating cube with a miniature flashbulb incarcerated within each of its four mirrored compartments—made amateur photography of interior spaces possible from the mid-1960s onwards. It also reduced the risk of injury presented by its forebears, the single-use luminescent flashbulb. “In the Flashcubes’ dazzling light, families staged domestic tableaux in an effort to display their nuclear family credentials,” notes Slate, which looks into the history of the Flashcube, dating to the 1930s and the work of Harold Edgerton. Read the full Story >>
CNN Monday January 10, 2022
Astrophotographers, get ready for a big year ahead: CNN previews total lunar eclipses and a multitude of meteor showers, as well as full moons and supermoons that will light up the sky in 2022 (starting this month with January’s Wolf Moon. A total lunar eclipse will be visible to people in Europe, Africa, South America and North America (excepting northwestern regions) between on May 15. Starting your research now. Read the full Story >>
Philadelphia Museum of Art Monday January 10, 2022
At the time of his death at age 73 in 2017, Richard Benson had earned an unequalled reputation for his mastery of the processes and techniques of photographic printing. He was also a beloved professor and dean at Yale. His own work with a camera received less attention, but, notes The New York Times, that may change with a new exhibition, titled “The World Is Smarter Than You Are,” on view through Jan. 23 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This is the first museum retrospective of Benson’s photography. Read the full Story >>
