On the Web: November 2005 Archives

Ran across a review of Geoff Dyers' The Ongoing Moment in the Financial Times on Friday. Dyers touches on a range of interesting concepts that thread throughout photography such as the unintentional connection of individual shots by different photographers or the narrative connection between photography and writing (though, Alec Soth has an alternate opinion on this, perhaps fodder for a future post).

If you haven't already, you've got to read this post, Dirty Dealing, over at From the Floor.

I've added two new blogs to the list at right. One, Edward Winkleman, is general art thinking and the other, A Photographic Imagination, is more photo oriented. Both recently addressed the elephant in the room, that the art world is politically skewed in a single direction and dissenting opinion is mostly absent or actively "discouraged", so to speak. Which leads to bad art. Ed's site has a lengthy series of comments (he seems to be supernaturally good at generating commentary.)

Edward Winkleman: Hot Political Art that Leaves Me Cold (or A Call for Purple)

Photographic Imagination: The intolerant myopia of visual artists?

Related: When Drama Becomes Propaganda, by Terry Teachout

Gallery Hopper was listed in yesterday's Entertainment section of the San Francisco Examiner. Welcome readers. The description was a bit off, but no worries. Even though there is a definite Gotham slant to the site, I think there's enough general interest photo posts to keep you West Coasters interested.

If you use RSS, you can add the Gallery Hopper feed with the links at the bottom of the right-hand column.