By Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Arts Blog 1. We are very aware these days of our submersion in the image; that much of our cultural meaning and awareness originates in the consumption of, production of, and of our being represented by images. The burning questions and controversies around the latest development in A.I.-related
Category: Photography
Upcoming: Adele Schwab Photo Exhibit in Berlin
by Carl Kruse My friend Adele Schwab has organized a photo exhibit in Berlin on two dates: 19 November 2021 (Friday) from 21.00-22:30. 20 November 2021 (Saturday) from 17.00-18.30. Adele Schwab. Photograph from the artist’s website. Her exhibit is titled, “Seeing the Unseen” an audio visual project that attempts to make air “visible” and investigates
Steve McCurry: Vulnerability Made Immortal
By Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Arts Blog Member of the Magnum, Steve McCurry graduated in 1974 in Cinematography and Theater from the University of Pennsylvania. He began work as a freelance photographer in the late 1970s, dispatching reports from India and Afghanistan, the countries with which his work is most identified. The turning
Between Introspection and Surrealism: the Photography of Francesca Woodman
by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Arts Blog One day in 1977, a young girl entered the “Maldoror” art gallery in Rome, handed the owner a gray box and exclaimed: “I’m a photographer!” She is not yet twenty and her name is Francesca Woodman. Born in Denver in April 1958, Francesca was the daughter
At Play With National Geographic’s YOUR SHOT
YOUR SHOT On National Geographic by Carl Kruse UPDATE: 7 November 2019: As of 31 October 2019, National Geographic has sadly closed the YOUR SHOT section of its site. This post remains for historical reasons. There are fortunately many other sites online to share images. We recommend FSTOPPERS and 500px. Both sites have high quality
Vicky Surveys Photography for Carl Kruse
As Carl Kruse is away, we let intern Vicky Srivastava write an article on the different types of photography for this blog update. His first on the internet. Photography and Its Unending Types Photography is an art of different forms and types. Most people would have it that the fundamental purpose of photography includes preservation
Jack Delano- Experiments in Light Photography
Some time in the early 1990s I came across Jack Delano’s work in a photography book titled “Puerto Rico Mio: Four Decades of Change.” Here Mr. Delano compared images from his first visit to the island in the 1940s with those he later made of the same sites 40 years later. Delano had first traveled