Musings On Photography and Other Things by Naomi
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 …
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 …
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 …
Given that this will plug a gap between what came before and what comes next there’s no reason for it to be particularly intense or structured. I suppose it’s more a stream of consciousness than anything else and although I had the kernel of the …
Reading time: a comfortable 20 minutes or so, plus pauses, but I don’t know how fast you read… It’s about maybe the most well-known photographer of the early Victorian year: Roger Fenton. The V&A Bit So I took a trip to London to see a …
I bought Pictures From the Surface of the Earth following last year’s May Photo auctions. I was completely bowled over by this one print and when I was researching it I discovered that it had been published in a book. It’s nice to have photobooks …