Photographic Fictions (2)
The average digital camera owner has over 5,000 photos in various libraries…
Photographic Fictions
There is an empty space between Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye…
ADORATION: Atom Egoyan’s New Film
“Adoration,” the new film by Atom Egoyan is a profound and extended exploration…
The Class - A Film with no Class
The Class directed by Laurent Cantet won the Palme D'Or at Cannes and is in the running for…
Reflections on the Documentary Cinema
In 1981 during a public presentation in Paris at La Cinémathèque Française, Jean Rouch said the following . . .
The Dark Knight
There are films and then there is cinema. The difference is not in the degree or strength…
Photographs/History/Meaning
The beauty of this image is its simplicity. Shot in the 1930's in the midst of the worst depression…
The Future of Design (1)
The Design Council in Great Britain has helped develop and grow the Design Industry…
Tenement in the 1940’s or How Photography Makes History
The act of taking a photograph is a way of preserving memories, but is also the way…
Henry Inlander (1)
The book that I hope to write on this great painter is still forming in my mind. Here is an early self-portrait…
Documents/Images/Ethnography
I will weave through a series of juxtapositions today drawn from a number of experiences which I have…
Experimental Cinema: Maya Deren
Maya Deren was one of America's greatest experimental filmmakers…
Experimental Video: Ed Emshwiller
"Sunstone is a landmark tape. Symbolic and poetic, it is a pivotal work in the development
Ceramics in the Material World
Over the last ten years I have watched ceramics evolve at Emily Carr from a craft-oriented practice…
Lucian Freud
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically…
Idris Khan + Photography’s Conceit (Roland Barthes)
“The eyes of the emperor’s brother once looked straight into a camera, in this case ‘manned’ by a photographer whose duty it was to take pictures of the rich and powerful. “
Some Comments on How Images Think
Professor Pramod Nayar of the Department of English, University of Hyderabad comments on "How Images Think…
Henry Inlander, British Painter
Over the last few years I have been getting emails and phone calls from former colleagues and…