Laura Pannack never stops shooting

Alec Soth Judges Hey, Hot Shot Competition

Yuri Kozurev: Dagestan and Russia’s Long War

Guardian:  book review: The Sound of Two Songs by Mark Power

A ton of photography videos care of” A photography student

Zwelethu Mthethwa on DLK Collection

Camera Club Alert… but interesting 0.5 lens

A week in Moscow from 1000 words blog

Royal Photographic Society scheme rethought following an outcry by photographers

Single serving link… Triangle Triangle

That looks Chinese to you?

Two weeks left of the Focus Here festival via Hereford Photofestival

Football Club Bans press photographers.

Pictures of Words: Richard Misrach, After Katrina

Foto8 summer show

Over the last year or so I have watch the membership grow and the reality of their initial plan emerge. The web space continues to increase in numbers as Alex and Brendan push more inovative ways to explore the internet as a place to view and discuss photography.

Now, Alex and Brendan have pushed Photography and Mash to the next level. They have taken the web space and turned it into a physical space. I was excited to receive an email from Alex outlining the acquisition of a new P&M photo studio/gallery in Shorditch -London. Rather than waffle any further let me direct you to what Alex has to say about it all..

This website has become a part of the lives of Brendan and I, a labour of faith and experimentation. However, during the past 9 months, we’ve both neglec…….

So my hat goes off to these two and I wish them all the sucess in the world based on their commitment and speed at which p&m has grown, I have no doubt that the gallery will be a massive sucess.

Good luck guys.

Amy Stein developing the narrative of local events.

Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography?

Photographer Martin Parr’s best shot.

Controversy over ‘lost’ Ansel Adams photos turns negative.

Donovan Wylie on architecture, art and life

University students address children photography conundrum

Wanted: Images promoting scientific research

Parr Talks Brighton

18 tumblr blogs that rock!

Visual Notes from a Life in Photography: In Times of War and Peace from 1972-2010

The Signature Image: A Fine-Art Photographer Looking for New Gallery Representation

Photographer threatened with arrest and forced to delete images

The Wandering Eye.

Encore! AFP In Court Over More Stolen Photos

National Media Museum offers £20,000 in fourth Photo Awards

Photo Book Competition

Thirty two Mann's

Mishka’s statement: “Collected Portraits presents twenty-four faces representing the collapsed portrait archives of twenty-four photographers whose work spans the history of the medium. The resulting series of ghostly portraits hints at each photographer’s consistent choice of subject, as well as offering a record of the photographer’s character as recorded in the accumulated expressions on their subjects’ faces”

So what we have here is a collection of 24 portraits of portraits. There is much to be said about the area of appropriation and recontextualization within photography and more than I will be able to convey here on my digital soap box. However what I will say is that this work does more than offer the viewer an alternative way to look at the particular photographers work. Following in the German tradition of a photograph commenting on photography -Thomas Ruff being an obvious example, whom Mishka has also used within this piece- Collective portraits, is not a photographic project about an external subject, it is not a document of some tragic or fascinating event, to me, it comments on the pit falls and the beauty of the medium as a whole. The end result is clearly an aesthetically pleasing one, these spectral portraits are are reminiscent of daguerreotypes which -intentional or not- sparks a starting point for the viewer to set off on a journey through the history of photography

Out and out however this work is a nod to many things photographic. There is the obvious reference to the photographers who originally produced the collective portraits; Sally Mann, August Sander etc, but this reference holds a subtle side tone. Within the photographic community and the art world as a whole there is a competitive aspect based on knowledge, this knowledge is often displayed as a game who’s who, in which participants recount various artist throughout history until one fails to recount the others. Combined portraits -in my opinion- is playing with that idea, as we scroll down the images we begin a game of can I tell who the photographer is, failing to do so results in instant disappointment. This playful jibe at the photographic world is not the least of the project references to photography/photographic art, art -or what ever it wishes to be called- there is a nod to those who have shunned conventional methods in favour of appropriation. Both the aesthetic qualities and the chosen title are an acknowledgment to Doug Keyes and his excellent work Collective Memory. Keyes examination of the Bechers water towers -for example- is in itself an affirmation of the work and photo art, therefore Mishka Henner’s affirmation of Keyes in some respects completes a circle of photographic representation.

Becher-Water Towers 1997

Regardless of your stand point on photography, on art or on appropriation this work and work like it creates debate on the inner workings of the medium and the direction it is taking. If we are ever to progress from post modernity the sort of questions created here are vital.

So here goes, my first list of links that source some of the popular photo news stories.

Ansel Adams photos found at yard sale worth $200Mil (above)

Debate of validity of said Ansel Adams photos

Negatives Verified by Team of Experts as Ansel Adams’ Work

The Times/Canon Young Photographer of the Year

Photographer Stripped of Award for Fraud

Christy Lange´s article on ethics of war photography in current issue of Frieze Mag

Laura Pannack wins Foto8 Best in Show 2010 and receives £1500 award.

Graduate Shows… is there any point?

Beyond the black and white: An interview with Reuters’ photographer Finbarr O’Reilly

Police briefings on photography rights not systematic

Sophie Calle wins Hassleblad award

TIME Picture Desk launched its dedicated Twitted feed this morning: @timepictures

Joerg Colberg creates a paradox

BP Fakes command centre images…

War Photography as Visual Euphemism?

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