by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
My video, The Passage, although created for personal reasons, can be seen as a metaphor for any or all of the transitions we are experiencing now, whether that transition is political or emotional, on a large social scale or on…