A new slide show of my recent black-and-white work is now available at my gallery site Joanne Mason Photography: Slide Show. The slide show features high-resolution full-screen (click the fullscreen icon in upper right corner) images. (While you’re there, enjoy the rest of Joanne Mason Photography! And leave a comment in the guestbook!)
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Visit Joanne Mason Photography for fine art photography prints. Available with ot without framing. Also canvas wraps, wall mounts, and desk frames. Available with a variety of museum quality papers. Enter the discount code MAY20 at checkout to receive 20% off.
Visit the Blurb Bookstore to order copies of Landscapes of the American Southwest at 10% off (sale prices already applied). Available in softcover, hardcover with image wrap, archival hardcover with dust jcket, and ebook edition customized for iBooks on iPad and iPhone.
Fine art photography is a great investment. Dress up your walls, coffee table, bookshelves. For your home and office. And Fine art photography and art photobooks make great gifts.
Sale prices and discounts only until May 16, 2012.
Joanne Mason Photography isn’t just for ordering prints and other products. You can visit to see images in galleries and slideshows at significantly higher resolution than here at Random Sights. But you can order prints, get downloads and licenses. What better way to celebrate spring than with a SALE!
Major price reductions are in effect across the board. In addition, enter the discount code SPRING12 to get an additional 20% off until the end of March.
You’ll find print prices surprisingly low: Cards for $3.00. Full size prints for as little as $27. Downloads, licenses, and signed/limited edition prints are also available. That’s with a 20% discount (SPRING12), but only until the end of March. Mounting and matting as well as framing available too!
Even if you don’t want to order prints, you’re welcome to visit the galleries. Leave a message in the Guest Book, either for the site or for individual galleries and images: www.joannemasonphotography.com.
(If there’s an image here at Random Sights that’s not showing for sale at www.joannemasonphotography.com, let me know by email or contact through Random Sights.)
Focus Magazine, the fine art photography magazine that received a very high rating here earlier, came out with some great news in the most recent issue. The single-themed Nudes issue of Focus proved so popular that Focus will start bringing the Nudes issue out on a regular basis in its own right. At the same time, Focus will also start to publish on a regular basis another magazine, Focus Portfolios, presenting work of up-and-coming photographers. Focus Nudes is scheduled to launch this month, Focus Portfolios in February. I am really looking forward to seeing these new issues.
Focus Magazine proper will return to its original mission of publishing stories about collecting photography. (The current issue of Focus, by the way, No. 22, is a huge double issue with exceptional content. Go to Zinio to get it.)
I am waiting for subscription information on the two new magazines, and also advice on whether they are going to be available in both print and iPad editions. Stay tuned, and I will update this information when I have it.
Simryn Gill, "Forest". Source: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The Getty Center owns an exceptional photography collection, and among the exhibits currently on display is “Forest” by the Singaporean/Australian photographer Simryn Gill. “Forest” is a part of the exhibit →Narrative Interventions in Photography, through March 11, which also includes works by Eileen Cowin and Carrie Mae Weems. Simryn Gill’s work is interesting in its own right as well as underscoring fascinating and perplexing questions about the nature of the photographic image.
Simryn Gill, "Forest." Source: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The Getty has provided no catalog for this exhibit and has not permitted photographs (although the video above is provided by the Getty). These images are from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in Simryn’s own Australia. The NSW Gallery exhibit provided a good description of “Forest.” (→Source here )
Through photographs, objects and installations Simryn Gill considers how we experience a sense of place and how both personal and cultural histories inform our present moment. Her work also suggests how culture becomes naturalised, an almost invisible part of our physical environment.
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Gill tore up the fibrous matter of book pages and grafted fragile strips of text into the natural environment. Attached to tropical plants, they look like natural forms, becoming exuberant banana florescences, dangling aerial roots on fig trees, mangroves emerging from mudflats, variegations on the leaves of lush tropical foliage and decaying vegetation at the base of epiphytic ferns. The original plant interventions occurred in places where a tamed nature was in the process of becoming wild again, in decrepit gardens and decaying buildings in Malaysia and Singapore. There is something of a ‘lost cities’ quality to these works, as nature is in the process of reclaiming culture if not civilisation.
Simryn Gill, "Forest". Source: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Gill’s photographic records of her interventions recall botanical drawings and are printed in subtle tones of gray. In keeping with their observational purpose, they depict space up close and there are no vistas, faraway horizons or the distant sublime.
(Even though there is no catalog for the Getty’s installation, the Getty website does provide a →somewhat interesting video of Gill discussing the “Forest” work.)
I find this show and Gill’s photographs a fascinating observation on the nature of the photographic image.
More after the jump… Continue reading
New Focus Magazine
As Random Sights readers know, I’ve been highly complimentary of the content in Focus Magazine. While Focus Magazine has been primarily directed to the art photography and collecting market, the quality of the photography included is so consistently great, the magazine is a great resource for all interested in fine art photography.
Focus has finally announced their publication and subscription plans for the two
new magazines. And it sounds like the two new magazines are nearly ready to go!
Focus Magazine itself will continue as an article-based magazine focused on fine art photography and collecting.
Focus Portfolios will publish portfolios of work by photographers around the world (especially emerging artists?). Focus Exposures will publish fine art nudes from photographers around the world.
All subscribers to Focus Magazine will automatically receive a free copy of each of the first issues of Focus Portfolios and Focus Exposures. Thereafter, both Focus Portfolios and Focus Exposures will be sold, alongside
the original Focus Magazine, in both Zinio and the Apple Newsstand.
Focus Magazine is available through the →Zinio iPad app, as well as directly through →Focus’s own ipad app.
Photography Book Publishing
The current issue of Focus includes a good article surveying the current state of fine art photography book publishing and the pros and cons of “p-books” and “e-books.”
We are at somewhat of a crossroads and a new frontier in the photobook business, and it’s something that all serious photographers should be interested in. Focus‘s Jain Kelly writes:
In my view, the Focus article creates a distinction between the two classes of books, p-books and e-books, but the distinction is incomplete. In reality, a third format should be a category of its own, the print-on-demand book. The e-book technology is not only impacting the market but greatly influencing book production and bringing [printed] book production within the scope of what can be done readily by many more photographers.
This Focus Magazine issue also includes for the first time an extensive list of recently published photo books, along with short descriptions, and also a number of longer in-depth reviews.
Focus Magazine remains, in my opinion, highly recommended.
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