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A different take on AIPAD, NYC’s yearly photo show

09 Monday Apr 2018

Posted by Per Larson in Uncategorized

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AIPAD, fine art photography, Forever Light, Iceland, Iceland II, instagram, landscape photography, New York City, photo books, photography

    Just think about it. What all of us have in common, what all of us can do without help, what is an absolutely direct experience? to be struck by, and admire, a photo. Art by comparison begs for mediation, interpretation – or a suspension of judgment.
    A photo is just there. Photos tie into deep human needs & wants: to see the unusual, the foreign – to see life at an angle. It permits us to see different worlds – blacks, Indians, Asians, gays, happy people, disaster-struck people – and of course the built environment, nature, or areas of the planet we’d never be able to step foot in.
    One extraordinary book in the publishers section at AIPAD is Iceland II. Iceland I is a typical photo book, squarish. But Iceland II enables us to see super-wide-angle, 10×20 approx. A big thank you to the photographer who invested in and lugged around such an ungainly tool for seeing differently around such a starkly beautiful land.
    In fact most of the sleepers at AIPAD are in the nonprofit/publisher section (publishers are a form of nonprofit organization come to think of it….). Picturebooks. Each of the magnificent photo shows here – masquerading as books – is a booth in itself. By my computation if you hung out and stayed in just this small section of AIPAD you’d be seeing a show 2-3-4 times the size. And you’d be able to view each photo much more appropriately and conveniently – at your angle, for as little or as long as you’d wish. And move from “booth to booth” in seconds. What a pity there are no chairs provided to see ease the acquisition of such wealth.
    If you like Iceland II take a look at the online Photo Guide to Iceland, an e-book by Hawk and Finn – 148pp of dramatic photography, available as spreads or single pages in Acrobat Reader for free. And talk about help! Take a look at Forever Light: The Landscape Photographer’s Guide to Iceland (2nd edition). It features in detail the 30 best locations (including GPS coordinates and camera settings) plus 20 more ideal spots.
    PPS Have you ever thought why video is totally absent from a pinnacle show like AIPAD? or Instagram? two forms of picturing that have both proved themselves and are now here to stay?

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