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Photo History: Charles Dodgson, Alice, and the 19th Century
February 17, 2019

Photo History: Charles Dodgson, Alice, and the 19th Century

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Musing About Photographs, Photographers, and The History of Photography
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"Salvatore Garau and There Is No Original Avant Ga "Salvatore Garau and There Is No Original Avant Garde Art After Marcel Duchamp" 

So an artist sold a shelf of air for €15,000 the other week. That's literally it. Read about on the blog, it's all up there. 

#salvatoregarau #invisibleair #conceptualart #contemporaryart #tfg #photographyblog #conceptualphotography #contemporary #contemporaryphotography #isitart #realornotreal #bananas #jeffkoons #cytwombly #heisenberg
"Girls and Childhood: Growing Up Too Soon?" I foun "Girls and Childhood: Growing Up Too Soon?"
I found a photo exhibition write-up on that well known bastion of journalistic integrity that is the @bbc and the premise of the project irked me. So I wrote about it. 
Obvs all my opinions. 

#photographyofchildren #carolymendelsohn #impressions #photographytoday #sallymann #letchildrenbechildren #adultifying #mybrainmyanalysis
What I'm reading this week. #israelthroughmylens What I'm reading this week. 

#israelthroughmylens #jerusalemofgold #israelunderattack #israeldefenseforces #idf #judea
"Reclaim and Laurence Fox: UnHerd Rebuttal" I fan "Reclaim and Laurence Fox: UnHerd Rebuttal"

I fancied a bit of a change from the usual photo stuff. This UnHerd article about @lozzafox1 and the @the_reclaim_party caught my eye but for entirely the wrong reasons so I did some deconstruction. It's inaugurated the newest little pocket of my blog, enticingly named Cancel Culture Corner. Not super original. But I'm ready for my cancellation now. Link to the blog up top. 

#laurencefox #laurencefoxformayor #reclaimparty #londonmayor #londonmayoralelections #cancelculture #cancelculturesucks #thefrailestgesture #unherd #groupthink #london #reclaim #freedom #batman #freedomofspeech #katiehopkins #gavinmcinnes #censored #johncleese
"Match Of The Day: Man Ray @ Christies" April 2nd "Match Of The Day: Man Ray @ Christies" 
April 2nd will be a month since the Christie's Paris sale so in a weirdly sympathetic twist of fate that's when the article goes "live". In it, I look at the sale of Lucien Treillard's trove of Man Ray and Surrealist works, using the Man Ray Trust's Press Release and Steven Manford's Statement of Opinion to guide my meagre analysis, with all questions phrased in a very hypothetical manner. 

#manray #historyofphotography #learningabouthistory #photographyhistoryknowledge #photographyhistory #cherries #christiesauction #sellingatchristies #auctionhousemarket #manrayphotography #manrayatelier #lucientreillard #motd
Squeezing in an inevitable "me too, miss" just bef Squeezing in an inevitable "me too, miss" just before shabbes.
The impressive result of Christie's Tuesday's sale sort of manages to avoid the dampner of outlets picking up on the fact that all might not have been as it appeared. Mais 100% vendu, c'est impressionant, n'est-ce pas? 

#manray #manrayphotography #manrayart #manraytrust
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