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NYPH08 Wrap-up on Foto8 and Bruce Gilden Video
I’m back 
home and foto8 has published my wrap-up of the weekend. I prefer Olivier’s.
On Friday, Jörg, Robert, Andrew and I were talking over pints about criticism. My feeling is that the best thing about these ‘blogs about photography’ is their ability to promote, of course, but it’s also their greatest weakness. All that backscratching can quickly tilt from importance to irrelevance. In other words, congratulatory echo-chambers are easily dismissed, and I hope some of us can rise above, to keep creating original content that matters. It’s good to see both Jörg and Robert facing this direction, in their recaps.
Great to meet all of you, and cheers again to those who could make it to Tom & Jerry’s on Saturday night. Hearing the birds chirp at 6am on the way uptown was a perfect closure…
If you’re looking for a recap of the train-wreck that was Charlie LeDuff interviewing Robert Frank, WNYC has it over here. It’s sufficiently cringeworthy, even without LeDuff’s physical antics. In my foto8 piece, I link to LeDuff’s “interview” of Marilyn Conyers , in which he asks her, “If you were a nut, what kind of nut would you be?” It’s curious that the organizers of the Lincoln Center event felt LeDuff was a good match for the evening. Update: Frank chose LeDuff to interview him.
Here’s the WNYC audio:
In other news, Cary points me to this other WNYC project, which is a NYC street photography competition called “Street Shots Challenge“, which includes this wonderful Bruce Gilden video.
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You’re reading “NYPH08 Wrap-up on Foto8 and Bruce Gilden Video,” on 2point8, a wide-open view on the practice of street photography by Michael David Murphy.
Posted May 19 2008
Check my editioned print w/ 20x200. I was standing in the street when I took it, I swear.
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