Quantcast
Channel: Photocritic » History and culture
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 3 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Gursky's Rhine II – small potatoes in an auction house

How sharp was your intake of breath when you read the Andreas Gurksy’s Rhine II sold for US $4.3 million (£2.7 million) at auction at Christie’s, New York last week? For most of us $4 million is an...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pass me a C-47 – or how a clothes peg got its film-set name

I was flipping through a book on film-making when I stumbled over a box-out mentioning the C-47. Or a clothes peg. Wooden clothes pegs are much-used on film-sets, where they don’t conduct heat so can’t...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Are photographs for humans?

Last month I was invited along to the inaugural EyeEm Festival & Awards. Among other things, I was on a panel on “The Camera of Tomorrow”. I do quite a bit of panel-ing (is that a word?) but I’m...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 3 View Live