Current Reads

Been enjoying Fred Ritchin's book After Photography. His essay "Photographing the Invisible" was an influential read in graduate school. Ritchin's essays remind me of how much I like thinking about and creating interdisciplinary/lens based work.

P. 58 From Chapter 3, From Zero to One, After Photography, Fred Ritchin (In response to Walter Benjamin's notion of the Aura) "Douglas Davis, in a digital era response six decades later, asserted: "Here is where the aura resides-not in the thing itself but in the originality of the moment when we see, hear, read, repeat, and revise."

www.cabinetmagazine.org

Cabinets 38th issue is on Islands-a near and dear interest of mine. Other highlights includes Inventory / An Anthology of Memories from Cabinet’s Published Past by Alejandro Cesarco

 Wish I could have seen the exhibit-almost a decade ago. Good book found in the stacks of the WSU library.

Picked up a copy of Bas Princen's book Five Cities Portfolio: Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, and Istanbul. While I was in Monograph bookworks (www.monographbookwerks.com) in NE Portland, the owner layed this out in front of me opened up. I couldn't resist. You can learn a bit more about Princen's book:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/refuge.html

www.vankranendonk.nl/artists/

Thinner Air by John Mann

www.rockpapercloud.com