LIT HUB Tuesday August 6, 2024
“When I get into a writing rut, I like to step back and take inspiration from other art forms, each of which has its own conventions as well as—encoded within those very conventions—all kinds of ways to break with convention and do something fun and new.” So notes American author, critic and translator Jennifer Croft at Lit Hub, where she reveals how photography has become a tool she uses for her writing. “Photography allows me to reevaluate my linguistic and narrative choices from a fresh perspective and reframe the central questions of my work. Sometimes the images become so integral to my story that they actually wind up in its pages, as in my new novel The Extinction of Irena Rey,” she explains.
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Christie's Tuesday August 6, 2024
Christie’s auction house has announced the sale of the photography collection of tech entrepreneur Trevor Traina, the former United States ambassador to Austria. Titled “An Eye Towards the Real: Photographs from the Collection of Ambassador Trevor Traina,” the sale is will take place live at Christie’s New York on Oct. 3. The collection includes work by giants of the 20th and 21st centuries, including William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, and Garry Winogrand, adds the SF Chronicle.
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DIYPhotography Tuesday August 6, 2024
Tamron’s newly announced Tamron 28-300mm f/4-7.1 Di III VC VXD (Model A074) lens is a 10.7x all-in-one zoom designed for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras. “With such a broad focal length range of 28-300mm, this lens would be great as a carry-about lens for travel or portrait photography,” notes DIY Photography. Lightweight and compact (just 5 inches long and weighing only 21.5 ounces), the lens is also it easy to carry and use for extended periods. Price: $899.
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HYPERALLERGIC Tuesday August 6, 2024
As a Mexican-American girl growing up in Ohio, Nadiah Rivera Fellah looked for art that reflected her experiences living at the intersection of multiple cultures. Now, notes Hyperallergic, she has curated “Picturing the Border,” a photography exhibition on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art through January 5, 2025. The exhibition aims to reclaim and reimagine ideas of nationality, belonging, and place at a time when the border’s mythologization as a cultural and racial battleground threatens to obscure the human stories rooted there.
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