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Did digital imaging throw documentary into an ontological crisis?
Written by David Tames on August 20, 2010
Filed Under Art, Camera, Critical Theory, Documentary, Featured, Photography
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Scholars have long discussed the ambiguity and subjectivity inherent in photographic representation with its seductive verisimilitude. Bill Mitchell’s The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (The MIT Press, 1992), the first book-length critical analysis of the...  Continue Reading...

2010 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment
Written by David Tames on July 27, 2010
Filed Under Art, Documentary, Events & Screenings, Filmmaking, New Media, Photography
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If you live in the Boston area, here’s an idea for what to do this weekend: The 2010 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment! Consider making a day of it and come out and visit on one of the public visitation days, Saturday, July 31st or Sunday, August 1st. Seven artists groups homesteading on...  Continue Reading...

Artist Encampment Photos
Written by David Tames on October 21, 2008
Filed Under Art, Events & Screenings, Photography
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These are the photos from the recent artist encampment on Bumpkin Island (a Flickr slide show). The Berwick Research Institute joined with the Island Alliance and Studio Soto to present the 2nd Annual Artist Encampment, a "homesteading" experience on Bumpkin Island, Boston Harbor...  Continue Reading...

Linking those who make media with those who need media
Written by David Tames on December 10, 2007
Filed Under New Media, Photography, Tools, Video Production, Video on the Web
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The web video explosion is creating demand for content and service exchanges that work at internet speed. Two among the many players in this space are bid4vid and Cutcaster. Cutcaster was established a year ago as an exchange for professional video and photos that allows buyers and sellers...  Continue Reading...

The hidden truth of photographs (or all images, for that matter)
Written by David Tames on September 26, 2007
Filed Under Documentary, Filmmaking, General, Photography
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Errol Morris gets philosophical in his post titled “Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?” on the New York Times web site. He begins the post with a T.S. Eliot quote from “The Hidden Men,” Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the...  Continue Reading...

If it’s not on Flickr, did it happen?
Written by David Tames on September 20, 2007
Filed Under Media Literacy, Photography, Web
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I’ve been saying for a while now, I don’t like it when I go to an event and I don’t shoot photos and then experiencing the feeling that, if it’s not on Flickr, it did not happen, this has been troubling me, and now I read “Will You Marry Me? Say Cheese!,”...  Continue Reading...

Canon TX1 Movie Test
Written by David Tames on May 8, 2007
Filed Under Camera, Demo, Gadgets and Devices, Photography
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OK, so the big question is, what’s the tiny Canon TX1 like as a video camera? To answer the question, I made a short video this weekend. I’m not much for testing with charts and side by side comparisons these days, image quality is only part of the camera equation, so instead...  Continue Reading...

Canon TX1 First Impressions
Written by David Tames on May 6, 2007
Filed Under Camera, Gadgets and Devices, High Definition, Photography, Video on the Web
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I’ve been shooting with a Canon S100 Digital Elph since 2000, and after seven years the camera was looking very long in the tooth, with dead pixels and starting to fall apart, it was time for an equally tiny replacement. For serious still shooting I’ve got a Canon 10D w/ an EF...  Continue Reading...

iView Media Pro gobbled up by the Microsoft Monopoly
Written by David Tames on October 13, 2006
Filed Under General, Photography
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I wrote a while back how much I liked iView Media Pro for managing my images. I was very sad to learn that Microsoft has acquired iView Media Pro. I don’t like using Microsoft software for many reasons, their objectively documented violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Act among them. ...  Continue Reading...

Frenzy of last-minute film camera buying
Written by David Tames on March 1, 2006
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In recent weeks Konica Minolta and Fuji Photo Film have announced they are getting out of the traditional film and film-based camera business. TIMES ONLINE reports that this has triggered a frenzy of last-minute buying in Japan. How much longer will film manufacturing continue?  Read More →

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