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A blog about photography in Los Angeles and the west coast in general.
About
- J. Wesley Brown
- J. Wesley Brown is a photographer living in Los Angeles, CA.
Contact
charity: water
Manifesto
- The idea behind this blog is driven by my perceived lack of community for photographers and enthusiasts in Los Angeles. The photography scene seems quite fragmented compared to New York, which is where the title comes from. New Yorkers are blessed with an established community and resources that us Angelenos are just going to have to create for ourselves. I hope for this blog to become a way for us to do just that - network, keep up to date on photo related happenings, and grow our community into one that promotes photography in the region. After all, we can shoot too.
Los Angeles Photo Galleries
- ACE Gallery
- C4 Contemporary
- Clark Oshin @ The Icon
- Craig Krull Gallery
- DNJ Gallery
- DRKRM
- Duncan Miller
- Fahey / Klein
- Gallery Luisotti
- Guy Hepner
- M+B
- Marc Selwyn
- Michael Dawson
- Paul Kopeikin
- Peter Fetterman
- Photographers Gallery
- Robert Berman
- Rose Gallery
- Stephen Cohen
- Susan Spiritus
- The Found Photo
- Verve Gallery
Links
Resources
Blogs
- [EV +/-] Exposure Compensation
- A Photo Editor
- A Photo Student
- A Photography Blog
- A Visual Society
- American Suburb X
- Amy Stein
- Blake Andrews
- But Does it Float?
- Colin Pantall
- Conscientious
- DLK Collection
- Feature Shoot
- Flak Photo
- Guess the Lighting
- Heather Morton Art Buyer
- La Pura Vida
- LACMA on Fire
- Lens Scratch
- Liz Kuball
- Los Angeles Fashion Photographer
- Marketing Photos
- Modern Art Notes
- New Landscape Photography
- Ocular Octopus
- PIX Feed
- Shane Lavalette/Journal
- Strobist
- Superluminal
- The Exposure Project
- The Photo Book
- The Photography Post
- The SIP
- This is a Photo Blog
- We Can't Paint
- What's the Jackanory?
- Women in Photography
Online Magazines
Newspapers getting it right
Blog Archive
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August
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- Carmel Art & Film Festival - Deadline!
- Off topic
- Random thought
- Feature - Corey Seeholzer
- August drought
- Artist Statement - Sally Mann
- Opening - Katie Shapiro
- Mathew Scott - Venice
- LACMA has a new Photography (etc.) Curator
- Feature - Aaron Ruell
- Quote of the Week - Mark Wrigley
- Lynsey Addario is one hell of a photographer
- Weekend Reading - Robert Adams
- Feature - Nicole Lloyd
- Quote of the week x2 - Danny Lyon
- I cannot wait for 5 years from now
- Free Webinar Tuesday - Printing
- Quote of the Week - Rod Slemmons
- Banner - charity: water
- If you don't have anything nice to say...
- Article on Alec Soth
- Rob Hornstra - The Sochi Project
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2 comments:
Here is my Random thought...Why does anyone in their right mind care what Joerg Colberg thinks?
Here is a quote from his blog about a competition he is running.
"Having a second round is based on the idea of making everything as equal as possible. With uniform file sizes, fancy websites won't be able to beat out simple ones. With a special naming convention for the jpegs (which will hide the full names), the winner will be solely chosen based on the quality of the work and nothing else."
Scale is an important component to any body of photographs...even on the web. This reflects Joerg's one sided view of the photo world. The web is only a microcosm of the fine art photography world. At it's best the web is a leave behind or a glorified business card. He says any serious photographer has a website. Tell that to Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel, Lee Friedlander, Lars Tunbjork, Jim Goldberg, John Gossage, Roe Ethridge and Robert Adams. He should get away from his computer and start looking at more prints. Alec Soth blogging gave all of these other self proclaimed experts a leg to stand on. The blog revolution is over for the photo world, and anyone who asks that hack to curate anything is a fool. The fact that he does not allow comments on his blog shows he has no concept of the potential for dialog the web can offer.
I hope you post this on your blog, and others out there realize they are wasting their time entering his competitions, and throwing money away if they pay him to do a portfolio review.
We need more blogs like this, and less hack photographers thinking because they have posted shitty opinions for a few years the photography world should care what you think.
A Concerned Photographer
The art is indeed in the printing (as any perfectionist photographer who's printed will tell you), though I do wonder if this might change in the near future with new media, GIF's etc and as screens get better and cheaper.
I won't post it but I'm not about censorship either, so here your comment shall remain.
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