![Otto Steinert Die Bäume vor meinem Fenster II, 1956. [The Trees in Front of my Window II, 1956]](https://francishodgson.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/the-trees-in-front-of-my-window-ii-1956-by-otto-steinert.jpg)
Otto Steinert
Die Bäume vor meinem Fenster II, 1956.
[The Trees in Front of my Window II, 1956]
The Heaving Speech of Air
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Monthly Archives: October 2015
Edgelands
This is a non-review of a show which may be good or bad, but which contains some things I like very much and which Londoners don’t get to see all that often. Continue reading
The Cloud of Unknowing – The Momentum Series of Alejandro Guijarro
Stanford II , 2012
Alejandro Guijarro, from the Momentum series ,
The Cloud of Unknowing is a well-known fourteenth century anonymous mystical text in Middle English. (As pretentious first sentences go, in a blog on photography, that’s not at all bad, but let it pass). I read it years ago (in a Penguin edition) and not much of it stuck — I hadn’t spared it a moment’s thought since, and would struggle to tell you much about it beyond the title. But it’s such a great title that I’ve carried that around with me. Now I feel I have a use for it. Continue reading
Who Says it’s Good?
Frank Brangwyn, Preparatory study for the Skinners’ Hall Murals, c.1905.
In photography we have no or few shared standards. The camera club virtues (perfection in the craft skills of photography at the expense of any or every notion of expressiveness) are not by any means to be mapped to the virtues aimed at by the members of World Press Photo, artists working in photography, or professional wedding photographers.
It is not, in general, a very controversial thing to say that “we have standards”. It is not awkward to expect that some jobs are better finished than others.
Try to get a little more specific than that, though, and standards are fiercely difficult to apply. Continue reading
Francis Hodgson 