Musings On Photography and Other Things by Naomi
In the second installment of this informal “Why I Hate The World I Live In And How Society Has Fucked Up Art Or The Other Way Around” I bring you week-old news of a recent artwork sale in Italy by an Italian artist.Why is this …
I’m on the verge of officially giving up. Not the blog, although I so rarely find the time to research at the moment that I might as well. No, I mean giving up on life. I’m not suicidal, chill oot, but I’m increasingly despairing of …
I’m fairly sure I’m allowed to do this, after all the original article is in the public domain, on a website noch, and is easily shared. I will apologise now for the lack of pictures because I don’t have editing software that would allow me …
And A Lot of Riffing On Stamps Full disclosure: I, shamefully, had no knowledge of this sale until someone whom I’ve never met but very much respect kindly put me in the loop. As articles go this is not exactly hot on the heels of the …
Today’s tirade (sort of) is brought to you courtesy of the famous and apparently feminist essay by Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? In a way it’s about her essay, but mostly it’s about the aura surrounding it, the reception given …
I’ve enjoyed the research that has so far culminated in issues I (Lewis Hine) and II (Man Ray) of this mini-series, Intrigue in the World of Photography within TFG. So, when I found some printouts whilst combing through the various papers on my desk I …
To continue sort of fluidly from my last article about the fake Lewis Hines, this issue will look at another incredibly famous figure from the History of Photography (yes, it does require capitalisation today) whose photographs were forged and sold. His name is Man Ray …
This is completely unrelated to anything I’ve written about previously and has nothing to do with anything going on in the real world (I’m not very current-affairs-minded) but there was a recent episode of Fake or Fortune on the telly that brought up some interesting …
So this episode of TFG is about an artist who was also a photographer (or the other way around). I was spurred to look at Stanislaw Witkiewicz by Phillips’ May Photographs sale because one of his prints sold really well. I’d never seen a photograph …