• Posts Tagged ‘photography’

    Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company

    by  • January 6, 2010 • History • 0 Comments

    Have you ever seen those old postcards — I tend to find them crammed in shoeboxes at antique stores — with luridly hued landscapes or blush-tinted street scenes and historical landmarks — photographs that almost look like rigid little paintings? Dam Square, Amsterdam. Detroit Publishing Company, c. 1900 There’s a good chance they were...

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    Richard Barnes: Museums, mortality and eternal return

    by  • October 6, 2009 • Art, Culture • 0 Comments

    On Sunday we went to Richard Barnes’s lecture on Animal Logic, his installation at the Cranbrook Institute of Science (part of the Artology series, a collaboration presenting “visual and experiential examples of the ways in which art and science frequently parallel or complement each other,” which will hold over creative-types while the Cranbrook Art...

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