February 2012
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Book Release Causes Frenzy →
A link to Blake Andrews’ most recent post where he again makes fun of the current mania of photo book collecting where out-of-print books are bid up to exceptional price levels. The post is about so called “Steidlheads” who are “panicking to get to the front of the line” to buy the upcoming release of Broken Manual by acclaimed photographer Alec Soth in order to sell...
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NWO awards 600,000 euros to develop research and... →
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Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’ and Geography →
Matt Johnston plotted all locations from Uncommmon Places into a google map:
I was keen to look at the locations of the original images in the 1982 publication as I had been noticing so many Texas, Florida and California locations that I wondered how the spread of images fell across a map.
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Integrating the dojo.gantt widget with Alfresco...
Last week I received an e-mail from an Alfresco developer with a question about integrating dojox.gantt with Alfresco. The dojox.gantt widget is part of the popular Dojo Toolkit and provides an integrated widget for project and resource management.
I never used the Dojo Toolkit before, but I decided to give it a try and I must say that it is a poweful framework for web application development. In...
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A Review/Conversation about Broken Manual with... →
Interesting discussion about the Broken Manual exhibition by photographer Alec Soth at Sean Kelly Gallery. Great way to report on a show.
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FT Magazine: Paul Graham: ‘The Present’ →
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Slow Art: Daan van Golden at De Hallen Haarlem
At De Hallen Haarlem there is a restrospective exhibition about the Dutch artist Daan van Golden (1936). The exhibition is not large and focuses on painting. There is one series of five photographs of pen drawings, but other than that there are no photographs. Besides painting, photography is an import medium in the work of Van Golden.
Among the works on display are paintings from his...
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Alfresco will end support for the AVM →
Today Jeff Potts, Alfresco’s Chief Community Officer, writes on Social Content that the Alfresco AVM (Alternative Versioning Model) will no longer be supported from Alfresco 5. The AVM was an alternative repository implementation in Alfresco to support Web Content Management use cases. It was designed as some sort of version control system with support for repository virtualization. It was...
January 2012
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Using CMIS in Alfresco 4.0 Web Scripts
Through an email Jeff Potts commented on my recent post Processing CMIS with Freemarker. In his email Jeff suggested to have a look at the ‘cmis’ root object that is available in Alfresco Community 4.0. I assume it will also be available in the upcoming Alfresco Enterprise 4.0.
Note: Jeff warned that the cmis root object appears to be broken in the current Community release 4c, but it...
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Johannesburg’s Most Wanted →
Interesting New York Times article about the South-African rap crew Die Antwoord:
I feel sorry for people who need to ask us: Is it real?” Ninja told me. Changing identities is the point — the more total, the better.
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Processing CMIS with Freemarker in Alfresco
Since its release in version 2.1 Alfresco Web Scripts proved to be extremely useful as a framework to build data oriented services and UI Components. They are even used to develop complete application integrations. Thanks to Web Scripts Alfresco was for example able to deliver one of the first CMIS implementations.
Officially Web Scrips are now part of the Spring Surf Framework, but the...
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Conscientious | A few thoughts on photobooks →
Interesting post by Joerg Colberg about some interesting issues relating to photo books and photo book publishing including end of year lists, small print runs and the question if photo books are elitist.
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Photobooks 2011: a view from Japan →
Some say that the Dutch currently make the best photo books, but with a gorgeous list like this I am not so sure.
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Yet another year-end book list →
A highly original list of best photo books of 2011. Blake Andrews has a great blog by the way and a great sense of humour.
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The Mother Road by Hans Gremmen →
The Mother Road is a new publication by Hans Gremmen. Gremmen compiled five hours of video from Google Streetview images of the famous route 66 to create a road movie. When you watch the movie it is as if you are behind the wheel and travel from Chicago to San Fransisco. The Mother Road was part of the New Topographics exhibition in Rotterdam that was on view from 25 June until 11 September 2011.
December 2011
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Photobooks 2011: And the winner is… →
The list of lists compiled by Marc Feustel now includes the selections from Photo Eye and a couple of other. Feustel pulled together 52 lists reporting 313 books. Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson is the big winner with 19 votes.
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WatchFrom a family friend Thomas Elshuis inherited an archive of more than twentythousand slides documenting his travels around the world. Elshuis uses this archive to create new photographic works by recomposing the pictures. In Carousel he used the archive to create an imaginary mountain landscape. It is published as a Leporello-sheet of 4 meters.
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Photo Eye's Best Books of 2011 →
Photo Eye published their best photography books of 2011 selected by publishers, writers, photographers and photo professionals.
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The Dutch Photobook →
In the first quarter of 2012 NAI Publishers will publish The Dutch Photo Book, an overview of the development of the Dutch photo book since 1945. The book will discuss over 120 photo books. It is published together with an exhibition called Celebration of the photobook that will be held at the Photo Museum in Rotterdam from March 10 until May 20 2012.
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Photobooks 2011: And the winner is… →
Marc Feustel compiled a list of the photo books that are getting all the plaudits in the various lists of favourite photo books of 2011. Feustel also added a list based on sales and that is a complete different list.
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The Best Books of 2011 (self and indie published) →
This list below features a diverse and international selection of self-published and indie published photobooks from 2011 that are part of the Indie Photobook Library.
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Joerg Colberg's favorite photobooks of 2011 →
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THE YEAR’S BEST TECH QUOTES →
More lists, this time this year’s best “tech” quotes of 2011 from The New Yorker’s Culture Desk.
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Favorite photobooks by Yannick Bouillis (Offprint) →
Yannick Bouillis (founder of Offprint) writes on his Offprint Photobook Fair page on Facebook:
Agree mostly with all the best photobooks 2011 selection! May i add few more and personal titles?
- Elle/ Il, by Jaap Scheren and Harry Bloch
- A very serious job, Thomas Mailander
- Monsieur Bertillon, Stephanie Solinas
- Offprint, Jorg Koopmann
- Allerseelen, Alexander Binder
- Dora Fobert,...
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Eanna Freeney on how he took photographs to combat... →
Nice interview in Dazed and Confused with Eanna Freeney, founder of The Velvet Cell, an independent imprint for photography. Among the things he reveals in the interview is that The Velvet Cell will publish some larger format books next year and that they are working on ‘a secret big release’ for the end of 2012.
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Another best books of 2011 list… →
And indeed another list compiled by Marc Feustel on his blog eyecurious.
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Photography books of the year 2011 →
List of favourite photo books compiled by Sean O’Hagan for The Guardian.
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Rick 28 jaar vrijgezel (Rick bachelor for 28... →
For acclaimed photographer and writer Hans Aarsman the book Rick 28 jaar vrijgezel (Rick bachelor for 28 years) by photographer Rick Hekman is the most interesting photo book of 2011.
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Claxton Projects 2011 photobook highlights (in no... →
The Claxton Projects favorites are: A Criminal Investigation by Watabe Yukichi, Series by Enrique Metinides, Surf Riot by Nick Waplington, Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson, Sumo by Craig McDean, Films by Paul Graham, Carnal Knowledge by Malerie Marder, Lang Zal Ze Leven by Anouk Kruithof, Seacoal by Chris Killip and Paloma Al Aire by Ricardo Cases.
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Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth →
Alec Soth’s favorite photo books of 2011 neatly ordered by genre.
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Livres de photographie : notre sélection 2011 →
The favourite photo books of 2011 are starting to arrive. This is the list published by the blog Des livres et des photos of the French newspaper Le Monde. The list is compiled by Maria-Karina Bojikian and Rémi Coignet.
It contains a couple of titles that I expect to appear on other lists like Permanent Error by Pieter Hugo, The Significant Savages by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine and A Criminal...
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Photography Book Marathon in Amsterdam →
On Sunday 18 December the fourth Photography Book Marathon will be held at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam. Dutch photography books published in 2011 will be presented in a marathon of interviews, discussions and autograph sessions. The following photo books are selected for the 2011 edition:
Inge van Iersel I Love You Forever
Heidi de Gier A Falling Horizon
Eline Baggen Loom Land
Guus...
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Pet's Marktplaats →