See Spot Go
[Originally published in an old blog on February 9, 2012] I’ve quit photography a few times, the first time in the 1980s. As the art on display got worse and worse, as the praise for the same works gushed and…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Darin Boville
Albuquerque: Petroglyphs and Shadows
In 2005 I found myself passing through Albuquerque and thought I’d stop by the Petroglyph National Monument. It’s not very big. Maybe at one time it used to be out there, on its own in some pristine setting, but now…
Making Zaido: An Interview with Yukari Chikura
The photobook Zaido by Yukari Chikura was published last year and has been featured in nearly every “top ten” list. The book is now listed as “out of print” by Steidl, the publisher, although stock remains at booksellers. You can…
Design by Ernst Reichl
Many years ago many of the camera manufacturers also had their own magazine. One of the less well known of these is Exakta Magazine, which highlighted the today equally obscure Exakta camera. To set itself off from the rest, Exakta…
I’m Giving My Book Away
My idea–I’m a genius at marketing my work, it should be obvious by now– was to send a free copy of Computational Photography each month, given postage-free* to a reader drawn randomly from my subscriber list. I mean, I would…
Justin Remes On Movies that Don’t Move
We’ve talked before about furniture films (also called static films). Prof. Justin Remes specializes in this interesting genre of experimental filmmaking and here shares with us his “top ten” list of historically important static films, aimed at introducing readers to…
Codes In Space
You’ve seen the video of NASA’s Perseverance, landing on Mars. The thing is the size of a small car, parachuted into the Martian atmosphere, then falling toward the surface, the fall then arrested by on-board jets which slowed the spacecraft…
Tour of Computational Photography: Title Page and Overture
Computational Photography, as it developed, became less and less like a regular photobook and more and more like an art project in itself. In a regular photobook you’d start off with an introductory text, followed by an essay from a…
Exploring the Mayan Ruins (In Books)
After going through William Frej’s exciting photobook, Maya Ruins Revisited (see my review here), that excitement carried on and I wanted to dig deeper. Do you want more, too? The first place to start is the most obvious: One essay…
Un-Still Photographs
What is a static film? That’s easy. It’s a photograph that moves. That is to say, it is a film that is in its heart a photograph, a framed view, pointing the viewer to a moment, framing that moment for…