Alec Soth writes, “I recently dipped my toes into the art education industry. After several waves of exhilaration and despair, I’m happy to find myself back on the relative terra firma of this blog. But I’m struggling to bring any coherence to my impressions. With only two weeks spent at the San Francisco Art Institute, I’m not qualified to offer much on the topic of arts education. But something is nagging at me. Something seems wrong.” Read more…

Alec Soth’s insights about art education. He thinks something is wrong. What do you think?

Source: alec soth – blog via digitalarte.co.uk

“Today is the first anniversary of this blog. I’m happy to have made it this far, but I’m feeling a little guilty. With an average of 2,000 unique visitors per day (and 220,000 visitors in total), I fear I’ve squandered the opportunity to provide much of a public service. Too many of my 310 posts have been devoted to subjects like Erotic Baseball Photography, Pamela Anderson, Rabbits n’ Circles, Jesse ‘the body’ Ventura and, of course, Sandwich Jumping. So in hopes of doing some good for the photo-blog community, I’m posting something that might be helpful:

Career Guide for Photographers”
 

Alec Soth’s tongue in cheek careers for photographers. Brilliant!

(via alec soth – blog)

alec soth – blog
Why bother? // By Alec Soth
Today I became aware of the fabulous Picture Australia archive. Searching on the topic of ‘new south wales police dept,’ I once again wonder why I bother with photography. It seems unfair that an anonymous police photographer can be as good as Avedon and Arbus. more

Inside Lightroom
Basic Tonal Control in Lightroom 1.1 // By Colleen Wheeler
Using Lightroom’s Develop module, you can do a lot to bring out the best tonal qualities of your images. Lightroom has easy-to-use sliders that allow you to react to the Exposure, Highlight/Shadow, and Brightness/Contrast needs of your images. In this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, Mikkel gives you a lushly illustrated overview of how to use the sliders in the Lightroom Develop module to quickly, easily, and satisfyingly make a variety of technical and aesthetic improvements to your photos more

Daily dose of imagery // By Sam Javanrouh
Daily dose of imagery is a simple view of my day to day visual experience, or my personal photoblog. I post one photo a day on this web site. For a brief technical detail of each photo, leave your mouse pointer on images more

lens culture photography weblog
Lens Culture Contest #1 — “in between” moments // By Jim Casper
Many of us carry cameras every day, everywhere we go. And often the images that surprise us and delight us most are those that are taken while we are waiting for something else to happen more

WorldChanging
Britain Bans Ads for Fast Food, Eggs // By Erica Barnett
Great Britain, already the birthplace of such progressive ideas as carbon labeling and the congestion tax, has long made a practice of banning advertisements that go against the nation’s progressive values. Lately, Britain seems to be in the midst of an ad-banning frenzy. In addition to bans on ads for online gambling, violent video games, tobacco products, and the word “bloody” (since overturned), Britain has placed bans on several types of food that the government feels are unhealthy, especially for children …more

Inside Lightroom
Lightroom 1.1 as a Digital Asset Management Tool // By Michael Clark
In my last blog post, talking about the Tom Hogarty interview, I decided to investigate just how well Lightroom would work as a digital asset management tool. I must say that I am reporting the facts as they are here for my hardware and images, these results may not be the same for your hardware and your images, especially if you only shoot jpegs. Below is part of my last blog post …more

Pogue’s Posts
Hotel Check-in Kiosks: Long Overdue // By David Pogue
Each year, my wife and I each take each of our two older kids on individual special weekends away—that is, four trips total (the baby’s not old enough to appreciate it). It’s a treat for both participants; one-parent/one-child has a very different dynamic, and more bonding moments, than the constant uproar of whole-family trips …more

London Photobloggers
The Big Art Mob // By Lorissa
There is a new public art project underway, the Big Art Mob. It aims to create the first public submitted document of all the public art in the UK (from small projects by artists working in the public realm through graffiti art to commissioned contemporary art and historical monuments) …more

Five Years Gallery – Peer Esteem
You are invited to submit…

Alec Soth – Blog
Assignment: Jump the sandwich…

The Edge
So, there is a new photographer resource/community site to check out. The Edge is a spot for photographers worldwide to share resources and ideas.

WorldChanging
SlaveCity: The Board Room
The Board Room is part of an ever-expanding project, SlaveCity, which elaborates on capitalism and takes the notion of productivity, corporate culture and profit to the extreme…

Michael Reichmann publisher and primary author of Luminous Landscape writes, “George Kraniotis, a London-based photographer who was recently in Toronto for one of my One-On-One sessions has just opened his digital lab and print studio. If you’re located in the UK and looking for an excellent service bureau, I can recommend George and his partner Myrto to you.”

(via Luminous Landscape)