A short note about Alexander Pushkin as a favourite artist. 2009 is the 210-th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin‘s birthday. Ten years ago, therefore, Russia and the Russian-speaking world celebr...
How do museums regulate permissions for museum photography, and is there a conflict between personal photos and official museum merchandise?...
Photography in museum: the conflict of copyright and "personal use". What museums can do to protect their collections....
This video is fairly short but serves well to introduce both the Watches supplement to the 2002 Vogue Russia, and the work of Eric Traoré. What I noticed recently, going through different fashion and ...
The question of art is not a question of spontaneous feelings. It is not a question of emotionality, but of the knowledge of how to make things, how to realise something consciously. Everything functi...
“Time will say nothing, but I told you so/ Time only knows the price we have to pay“, soberly reflected Wystan Hugh Auden in his well-known poem. Diane Arbus, when working on a feature for...
I‘ve just read and went through Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph , picking up many valuable quotes. In the few of them below Arbus discusses the intriguing gap between intention and effect, as...
Fishing on the Canal, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I am tempted to say that I can barely understand these die-hard fishermen who sometimes stand on the banks of Bridgewater Canal in Man...
Between the hands, between the brows,Between the lips of Love-Lily,A spirit is born whose birth endowsMy blood with fire to burn through me;Who breathes upon my gazing eyes,Who laughs and murmurs in m...
Those of you who followed my Flickr have undoubtedly noticed just what a surge in my passion for photography came from this trip to Wales. What I wanted to share in this chapter is one particular expe...