Photographers gather to celebrate 'Blind Spot' and tell funny stories about picture-taking:
A group of photographers, celebrating Blind Spot, gather to tell funny stories about taking pictures
Bio: Jessica Loudis is a writer based in Brooklyn and an assistant editor at Bookforum.
“Humor is life’s lube,” photographer Tim Davis deadpanned to the audience Sunday afternoon, before launching Blind Spot’s photography and humor event at the Cabinet event space in Gowanus with a story about an nauseating roller coaster ride and the commemorative photo he was sold right after. (The punchline, better seen than described, is Davis’ dismal expression as those around him scream with joy). More
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on March 21st, 2012 9:34amAt the beginning of February, the Film Society of Lincoln Center held a retrospective of the Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr, screening all of his features and culminating in the U.S. debut of The Turin Horse, the film Tarr says is to be his last. If that’s the case, it’s a stunning and characteristically dark end to a fascinating career. More
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on February 27th, 2012 8:46amSo what’s the vision of America here? To take “Being American” at face value, it’s one of violence and class warfare, social inequality and runaway consumerism, with the odd references to natural beauty and congenital optimism thrown in for good measure. More
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on December 2nd, 2011 9:43amIf Radu Muntean were a different kind of filmmaker, Tuesday After Christmas could have easily been a melodrama, but instead, it’s insistently, enthrallingly, anticlimactic, concerned with the forgettable interactions and small comforts of daily life. Which makes it all the more devastating when these are revealed as a cover for deceit. More
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on December 1st, 2011 9:01am
