I dropped by the show this morning. Pretty small. I picked up a 49mm
Olympus Skylight filter from the filter guy, but that was about it for
my Oly purchasing. I grabbed a really clean Gralab 300 for $50.
After the show I had a meeting with my photo class at the Museum of
Modern Art. We toured the Andreas Gursky and August Sander exhibits.
Man, those huge freakin' Gursky prints were something. They all said,
"chromogenic process color print" on their information cards. I know
this is kind of off-topic, but does anyone know exactly what that
means? Or is that just what color prints are? I really wonder what
Gursky uses for equipment. Some of those photos are enormous and
contain detail that's overwhelming. I kept feeling like I was being
sucked into the photos. The detail really pulled me in a lot of the
time and I had to step back consciously to take in the overall
composition. What a pair of exhibits to see on the same day, though.
Sander's prints are all the size of your hand and consist of portraits
of what he considered to be the core of German society from the turn of
the century to about the early 50's. Little moments in time,
unassumingly presented in groups according to what he believed were
people of similar social function. Then one floor up there are these
massive Gursky prints of crowds at rock concerts and stores full of
brightly packaged candies and men on the floor of a stock exchange. The
two guys would have a hard time being more thematically opposite. I
need to shut up. I had a good time. ;-)
-Rob
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