Current Photo Reads

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

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

I read De Botton's book The Art of Travel a few years back and enjoyed the his unique style and approach to writing.

www.alaindebotton.com

Recently I have been reading The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work which combines De Botton's unique style of prose and book formatting with the photography of Richard Baker.  www.bakerpictures.com

The Adventure of a Photographer by Italo Calvino

The March/April 2008 Edition of Art on Paper is chalked full of discussions on photography. Included is a short story by Italo Calvino, entitled "The Adventure of a Photographer, " originally from 1958.

A few quotes that resonated with me in reading the story included:

"The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow."

"Photographed reality immediately takes on a nostalgic character, of joy fled on the wings of time, a commemorative quality, even if the picture was taken the day before yesterday."

"The mask, being first of all a social, historical product, contains more truth than any image claiming to be "true"; it bears quantity of meanings that will gradually be revealed."

-From "The Adventure of a Photographer", by Italo Calvino.

Adrienne Salinger's new book, Middle Aged Men, published by Nazraeli Press

Adrienne Salinger: Middle Aged Men, Limited Edition [SIGNED], Publisher: Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli Press, 2007 , 1st Edition

© Adrienne Salinger

© Adrienne Salinger