My Guggenheim Fellowship essay
At the last possible minute, I decided to apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship to support my American Nukes project. It was a scramble to get it done in time, and I only just made it. The Guggenheim is a prestigious…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Book Review: Myself: Timed Exposures, by Mike Mandel
Mike Mandel doesn’t know it yet, but his new book, MYSELF: Timed Exposures, is a Turing Test. On the cover of the book is an image of several people standing in what appears to be an elevator. There’s a blonde…
Two walkthrough videos of my show, American Nukes
My American Nukes: Photographs and Texts by Darin Boville show is up until July 5th–you have plenty of time to go! It’s at the Nuclear Museum, in Albuquerque, New Mexico (its formal name is the National Museum of Nuclear History…
American Nukes
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here before (which sort of amazes me) but for the past three years I’ve been working on a major photo project on nuclear weapons. Road-tripping across the United States, covering a total of 25,000…
Book Review: Coming and Going by Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg’s new book, Coming and Going, is a mess. It’s a mess of photographs, a mess of handwritten text, of notes, letters, a mess of collages of photographs often hundreds of images to a page, a mess of people…
Book Review: Pier 24’s Photobook of Photobooks
Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so naturally inclined to the printed…
MacOS’s Partial HDR updates
(Note: If you are seeing the above image in Safari or in any other non-HDR browser you are seeing a dark, dull, ugly conversion. If you are seeing it in Opera or Chrome on an HDR monitor you are seeing…
My Things-to-do List
When I post about my photo projects it all comes out nice and neat, one project following another, all neatly lined up and each progressing from milestone to milestone as if I have some spreadsheet charting each day’s goals and…
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Go to the Show (in Lancaster, California)
Doing anything between this Saturday and December 29th? If not, head out to Lancaster, California, and see the Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees exhibit at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH). It’s part of a Getty-funded initiative that…