Follow Photocritic International, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/photocritic-international Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:02:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_RtBV5_UGeQUoy9CZgXDJO This coming Monday, on the evening of November 20, Douglas I. Sheer, president of the critically acclaimed series Artists Talk On Art, will conduct a virtual interview with me, hosted via Zoom. I invite all readers of this blog to join me for this event, which is free and open to the public. There's no registration required; just log in via the link below, shortly before 7 p.m. EST [...]]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:28:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_RtBV5_UGeQUoy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8z1hqAnhZXYXCrAHWlao0B Autumn has arrived. With the hounds of winter presumably on its traces. The leaves have now mostly turned and dropped, always lovely to watch yet also somehow melancholic. So, while enjoying the seasonal spectacular, we turned our attention to the coming winter, and our preparations for it. [...]]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:45:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8z1hqAnhZXYXCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9L-Qs8VH368Om6srrLMsqK Yes, I will vote this morning. I always vote — doesn’t matter if it’s a national or local election. I’d have no objection if they made voting mandatory as a basic requirement of citizenship. I’d even approve a change to that effect. So I encourage you to vote today also. [...]]]> Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:23:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9L-Qs8VH368Om6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_z4-1n3OmdnZNaYRWadcX6 Though by definition I can only observe the war in Ukraine from afar, I don’t think of myself as merely a spectator, nor of this as a spectator sport. Count me instead as a concerned citizen of the world — a world that the outcome of this catastrophe will affect deeply. And someone who sees democracy worldwide at stake here. [...]]]> Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:45:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_z4-1n3OmdnZNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8X65PJzygpXGW0GqTRQSgk Local Republican candidate Paul Tuzzolino claims to be “fiercely independent.” However, given his party affiliation, and his chosen party’s fealty to the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted convicted rapist, and the variety of fierce independence his Republican cohorts display, we have a right to demand that he put a finer point on his self-congratulatory assertion. [...]]]> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:45:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8X65PJzygpXGW0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_eoqKjvrKeQlT72x6uxjiK Whoever you are, dear reader, I guarantee you this: Depending on your age, you will see Trump's Georgia mugshot hundreds and possibly thousands of times over the course of the rest of your life. T-shirts and coffee mugs, book jackets and magazine covers, print and online news articles, his eventual obituaries … lodged irrevocably in your memory. Get used to it. [...]]]> Mon, 11 Sep 2023 05:45:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_eoqKjvrKeQlT72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9EGFCokxdiPFyOSYGFl6uu Sam Stall foresees the same grim future for arts criticism as I do: produced by “freelancers or retired people who still want to contribute,” self-funded (like this blog) or minimally subsidized by some grants organization, self-published (like this blog) or presented at the subsidized website of a non-profit arts organization. In short, exceedingly narrowcast, and isolated from other subjects of cultural commentary — the very antithesis of newspaper-based cultural journalism. [...]]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2023 05:45:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9EGFCokxdiPFyOSYGFl6uu https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9d93Li7ngbVlhGNgNo2_0q In the end, it seems fittingly ironic that the Occam’s-Razor explanation for all of Capa’s missing D-Day negatives turns out to be the scissors of the censor. The legend of the lost negatives resulted from nothing more or less than the needs of Capa’s outsize ego. [...]]]> Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:45:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9d93Li7ngbVlhGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-EZqU3AbWJWq7VFky8BpXO I have come to believe that Capa’s actions on D-Day resulted from considered planning and calculated risks. He knew that he would have only a short time on the beach. He knew that he had to get back quickly to some ship — preferably the Chase, but if not another — in the convoy scheduled to depart at noon for the English coast. That represented his only hope of getting his films to LIFE on time. [...]]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:45:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-EZqU3AbWJWq7VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_knCt7ZSLm0iVCAQLB0bf5 Evidence showing that Covid-19 enters the brain and causes dementia, especially in older brains provides ample reason to err on the side of caution, regardless of whether masking up entails experiencing head shakes and smirks and side-eye and even aggressive verbal snark from a-holes in the supermarket. [...]]]> Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:45:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_knCt7ZSLm0iVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8ltu2y4Qzl2nHnycKeoCpf So when Capa clambered onto LCI(L)-94, it wasn’t a result of knowing it would get him back to the Chase. It was simply his best chance to get off the beach quickly with his films. Lt. Gislason recognized Capa’s name and understood the importance of his films and his assignment for LIFE. So they flagged down one of the Chase‘s returning LCVPs that they encountered on the return trip. [...]]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:45:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8ltu2y4Qzl2nHnycKeoCpf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-4JWy578jT0Sxhxzpi7FpJ Once Capa stepped into the surf, he seems to have completely forgotten about the battle on shore. Each and every shot was angled at least partly — if not entirely — seaward. This tells me that he was primarily looking for a means to depart. Capa’s picture-taking stopped almost immediately upon LCI(L)-94 showing up in his viewfinder. Which suggests that he’d seen his means of escape and was moving to get aboard. [...]]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:45:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-4JWy578jT0Sxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9a7Xvfzmy0Nwp41t9tiERU The question becomes this: does the photo show LCI(L)-94 already retracting after its first landing? These two timelines argue that Capa landed first, and subsequently photographed LCI(L)-94 during its first approach to the beach. [...]]]> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 05:45:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9a7Xvfzmy0Nwp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8VWciXjWeoRDRQaTQYXBS9 This would seem to prove definitively that Capa’s account of his boarding of LCI(L)-94 is not accurate. There simply wasn’t time for him to go to the engine room, thoroughly dry off, smoke a couple of cigarettes, pick off all the kapok debris, change film (maybe?) and regain his composure in time to go back above decks and start taking pictures just off the beach. [...]]]> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 05:45:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt8VWciXjWeoRDRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9JNJo3vzRSHmsGk81fO-bN At this point there remains just one aspect of Capa’s D-Day adventure left to examine: his departure from Omaha Beach aboard LCI(L)-94 (which stands for Landing Craft Infantry (Large)-94). Let’s see how his description of this phase of his adventure stands up to scrutiny. [...]]]> Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:23:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9JNJo3vzRSHmsGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-iGD2RdDGB_gBC78OgjhDM Ironic that in the case of Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith an otherwise astute member of the court’s liberal minority, Justice Elena Kagan, should offer a surprising arrogant and patronizing dissent that pretends to art-historical savvy while merely parroting postmodern "theory" and art-market rationales. [...]]]> Mon, 29 May 2023 05:45:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-iGD2RdDGB_gBC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-yVh0AaRIDT0oy9CZgXDJO The only disappointment on the otherwise momentous and joyous occasion of Donald Trump's first-ever indictment on criminal charges? NYC D.A. Alvin Bragg decided, presumably for strategic reasons, to forego not just public documentation of the arrest and processing but also the production and distribution of the standard mug shot of the accused. [...]]]> Wed, 24 May 2023 05:45:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt-yVh0AaRIDT0oy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt86epcSF-DeTwX50KYzL9tX For the first time in over half a century I have (a) my very own resident groundhog but (b) no designated local season prognosticator of the woodchuck persuasion. Hence a dilemma I faced this past February: Who to believe about the advent of spring? [...]]]> Tue, 16 May 2023 05:45:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt86epcSF-DeTwX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9ietjmvYkUeRKeetMRuZbW The virtual Zoom interview with me that got rescheduled for 7 p.m. this evening, Monday, May 8, has been cancelled once again — this time because the interviewer, Douglas I. Sheer, president of the critically acclaimed series Artists Talk On Art (ATOA), came down with COVID. ATOA's season has come to an end, so we will reschedule the session for sometime next fall. [...]]]> Mon, 08 May 2023 05:45:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt9ietjmvYkUeRKeetMRuZbW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_Vtq28EDRx13-fx8LWuXng On the evening of Monday, May 8, Douglas I. Sheer, president of the critically acclaimed series Artists Talk On Art, will conduct a virtual interview with me, hosted via Zoom. I invite all readers of this blog to join me for this event, which is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required, via the link below; then just log in on Monday, shortly before 7 p.m. EST. [...]]]> Thu, 04 May 2023 05:45:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-112UkffZt_Vtq28EDRx13-fx8LWuXng