Re-touching - Pascal Dangin does it on the Mac . . . Bizarre but 'normal' . . .

The article's at

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/beauty/article3986058.ece
Kathleen Baird-Murray writes about the author-pic for her new novel 'Face Value' . . . and see 'Pixel Perfect' from the Independent a week ago, also a blog here..

ELEVEN PHOTO VENUES IN JUNE '08

This Norman Parkinson pic is from the STREETS AND STUDIO show at Tate Modern.






http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3979526.ece
AND, CHECK OUT BLUMENFELD'S SPOT-ON 'GIRL IN A GREEN DRESS' IMAGE AT THE SUNDAY TIMES REVIEW
http://www.dpishow.com/venue.php
MORE OF A 'HOW TO' DIGITAL SHOW
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/index.html
GIANORMOUS PHOTO COLLECTION
http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/exhibition,upcoming,1,0,0,0,53,0,0,0,ruth_orkin_.html?link=exhibition%2Cupcoming%2C1%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C53%2C0%2C0%2C0%2Cruth_orkin_.html&searchString=_level0.row_2&index=12&iD=2&targetButton=_level0.button_2&targetCover=_level0.cover_2&targetBackground=_level0.d_2&targetLabel=_level0.b_2&onRollOver=[type+Function]&onDragOut=[type+Function]&onRollOut=[type+Function]&onRelease=[type+Function]
RUTH ORKIN AT MICHAEL HOPPEN GALLERY
http://www.photofusion.org/index.htm
CHECK IT OUT - ANYTHING THERE ??
http://paulrussellinfo.blogspot.com/
DON McPHEE
http://www.londonsalon.org/
COOL FOR SOME
http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/exhibitions/
AYSE GEFTER IN CUBA - at Chat's Palace, a venue I like . . .
http://www.re-title.com/artists/Naglaa-WalkerFilmAndVideo.asp
NAGLAA WALKER - I CAN'T SEE IF IT'S CURRENT, THOUGH
http://www.re-title.com/artists/natalie-tkachuk.asp
NATALIE TKACKUK - INTERESTING
http://www.galleryspace.org.uk/
A SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED (MIXED MEDIA) SPACE IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LOCAL PARK . . .

Let me know, if you go . . .I did try and make 'hotlinks', but Firefox and BlogSpot couldn't agree, and the whole thing crashed. You'll have to 'copy and paste' for now . . . Sorry

OBAMA has FACEBOOK talking . . .

Obama is doing something extraordinary . . . millions of Americans are contributing on-line, and no-one's harnessed the 'Net so well before . . . Andrew Sullivan covers it from Washington . . .
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article3997523.ece

Apologies that the URL for the Sunday Times is NOT 'live', but Firefox has let me down on that . . .

V A N I T Y ___ F A I R

These are my two favourite images from the Vanity Fair exhibition, formerly on at the National Portrait Gallery in London, now finished. it MAY go on tour, you'd have to check. I did go one more time, on the last Thursday.


Jessye Norman by Annie Liebowitz 1988
&
Peter Lorre by Lusha Nelson 1935





It was the 'Net at http://www.npg.org.uk/vanityfair/index.htm

Staring out the window . . .

Staring out the window at the racing clouds yesterday afternoon really helped me to focus. I was trying to plan the photo-shoot for college for this coming Tuesday; this morning I took some test-shots using the lace fabric and this morning's model was the ever-helpful Annette.
The photo here is off the 'Net, and is a facsimile of the original. The lighting is the tricky bit. light from in front through the lace, light evenly across the face, and of course the model there was the extraordinarily beautiful Gloria Swanson. The original shot was taken by Edward Steichen in 1924 and it appeared in Vanity Fair magazine.

Re-touching by Pascal Dangin, the master . . . and Robert Frank, a master photographer . . .

The Indpendent newspaper has a lead article on photo re-touching and the implications, at

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/pixel-perfect-why-you-shouldnt-believe-your-eyes-when-it-comes-to-those-glossy-images-829196.html


In trawling the Independent site I found The Ten Best Photography Books , I see that The Americans by Robert Frank is to be re-published again, cheap at £ 20 . . .

http://independent.net-genie.co.uk/House_home/54750/the_ten_best_photography_books.html . .

I found it almost impossible to locate a copy of this seminal book for my research, so this re-publication should help tremendously . . .

. . . R O M A N____N U M E R A L S . . .

This is Blog Post No VIII in Roman , which is also Blog Post No 8 in Arabic

Just in case you were wondering how the Roman bankers kept track of loans, they used a 'tally stick' with notches down the edge. For normal Roman folk, before Arabic numerals came along, they used capital letters to represent different numbers. It was OK for showing most numbers, but you came unstuck on multiplication or division. Addition and subtraction could be tricky, too.

Find some simple Roman sequences at http://maryt.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/roman_numerals_complete.jpg

Believe it or not, this was the absolute most interesting topic culled from today's events . . . I occasionally use Roman numerals, as I had to learn them, along with Latin, at school . . .

Another photo competition in the Grauniad newspaper . . .

There's a photo competition at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/feb/27/yourphotos?picture=332431829

and there's also something in today's (Saturday 10 May '08) Guardian about Martin Parr having photos of ten British cities in the paper, over the next few months, and then these being available to buy at the end [ martin.parr.cities@guardian.co.uk ]. Check it out as the giant centre-fold pages of the paper today.

I was interested to see that there's a mention of the Hoppen Gallery show at

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/0,,1972853,00.html

amongst other photo events.

a VERY effective teen leader in Plaistow . . .

Mr RAY LEWIS

A great article in the Sunday papers about a former prison governor and chaplain who's working on an after-school leadership project in East London. 

We need more guys like him, to raise childrens' expectations . . . read about it at     http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3907565.ece

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. . .I couldn't read the Arabic langauge ones, but i tried on the French and Spanish Blogs . . . amazing what people post on the Web . . .