Laura Lark Loves You #6: Personal Best
It’s been a while. Many people have contacted me with the same question: “Doesn’t Laura Lark love me anymore?” To this I‘ve replied: “Laura Lark loves you as much as she ever did!” And I really, really mean it. I’ve had a lot going on here at home. There’s dirt out there that has ground its [...]
Tsunami of Vernacular Photographs Recording Every Action as if it Were of Equal Importance
NY times blogger James Estrin contrasts the measured connoisseurship of an old-style photographic festival with the estimated 380 billion photographs taken last year by camera phones, or the 380 million uploaded to Facebook every day. Estrin rails against photographs used as “a chintzy currency in a social interaction,” and fears the that professional photographers will [...]
How to Raise the Bar on Dallas’ Scene?
Last week, a Facebook friend of mine — an artist living in Dallas whom I’ve never actually met – caught my attention when he posted this on Facebook after his recent visit to NY: Walking through the galleries in Chelsea… the work that we saw felt different than art here in Dallas. Part of the difference was presentation. [...]