6.30.2008
Zine Fever
Superficial Snapshots © Allison V. Smith
University of New Mexico Graduate Catalogue
A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced [ziːn], "zeen") is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.
Everyone who is someone has published his or her own zine. Not a new phenomenon of the photobook world but the trend is expanding since some publishers are not willing to foot the bill and take the risk of publishing just any work. Most of the zines are cheaper and nicer than the print on demand books I have seen. In addition to the examples show above, check out Hassla books, Farewell Books, Seems Books, Serps Press, Nieves, 12th Press and the links on all these sites. You can get lost in little book world.
And finally, Peggy Lee.
Julie Blackmon Domestic Vacations opens at photo-eye
Julie with Walter Sondheim
Julie with Heather PrichardJulie Blackmon's exhibition Domestic Vacations opened at
photo-eye Gallery on Friday night, June 27th.
6.26.2008
Center for Fine Art Photography Call for Entry
The Center for Fine Art Photography's next call for entry is for the 2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography. The deadline is July 15, 2008.
Shots Magazine Issue 101: Dreams Call for Entry
Shots Magazine's next deadline for Issue 101 on Dreams is August 4, 2008. 6.24.2008
Thank you notes are cool
David Godine once told me that his mother used to make him write his thank you notes every evening. Such is the life of the child of a Bostonian mother. I, on the other hand, was not raised that way. My grandma always wrote hers, but did not force me to do so. Although Southern and slightly gentile (or sometimes slightly redneck depending on the day), I always say please, thank you and yes, mam/sir, but can be quiet ungrateful when it comes to handwriting notes. This is not the case with many of the review Santa Fe participants. Please find below the list of names and some scans of lovely gifts of appreciation I received for my time and words. Thanks to you for being thankful!
The back of the card from Keliy Anderson-Staley. ©Keliy Anderson-Staley
6.23.2008
Sent a Letter
So I found a book of poetry in my local used bookstore. Normally, I am not the poetry kinda gal, but this one was a beautiful object.
It is the twenty-fifth printing of a book titled Fireflies by a man named Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Prize winning author who I had never heard of. The book set in Linotype by Brown Brothers Linotypers with floral illustrations adorning each page. I have started to mark some of the page of the passages as they strike me. Two pages in particular, shown here with the illustrations, read:
Memory, the priestess,
kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead
past.
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play
and forgets the priest.
© Dayanita Singh The afore mentioned book's presence in my life just so happens to coincide with my discovery of a lovely book of photographs by Indian photographer Dayanita Singh titled Sent a Letter. This little jewel is in seven small books with a wrap around slipcase. Many of the bound accordion-fold books, based on Singh's own diaries, contain her photos from around her home country of India: Allahabad, Padmanabhapuram, Varanasi, Devigarh, Bombay, and Calcutta (Tagore's birthplace). The final book in the series is titled Nony Singh with photos of Dayanita growing up.
I am usually have an aversion to forcing meaning with words, particularly poetry, on photographs, but not always using photographs to illustrate words. Maybe these ideas are the same, but I can pick out a passage from Tagore's book and easily find the small quiet photo to illuminate the words.
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