And It Really, Really Works
Two weeks ago I invoked the Lazy Web, hoping someone would find a way to republish photography criticism no longer in print, such as "Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on lnfluence," by photographer Tod Papageorge. Papageorge's essay is available via used book dealers, I noted then, but at collector's prices ($195 on up). "I just want to read [it]. A PDF would be fine."
A day later, a PDF of the essay landed in my inbox, courtesy of the author. Score another one for the Lazy Web.
But wait, there's more!
Now you can read it too. Papageorge's essay is the first in an occasional series, Photography: The Missing Criticism, which will bring back into print -- well, at least PDF -- great writing on photography.
Posted on August 02, 2007, in Web Stuff. | Tag this with del.icio.us
Comments
thanks- this will provide thoughtful reading. Since I found this through Mike Johnston's The Online Photographer site, you should know that he once had access to a good bit of of writing by Ralph Steiner, edited by David Vestal, that was supposed to appear in Photo Techniques magazine in the 1990's. Some of it did, and MJ's note in one issue of PT suggested that there was more to come. I don't think it ever did. This might be a good place to print it, if rights can be obtained.
Posted by: Mark Sampson at August 16, 2007 02:28 PM
Eric:
Thanks for this act of cultural rescue. I discussed what you did today on my blog on time.com. (http://time-blog.com/looking_around/). Hope that leads more people to Tod's great essay.
Posted by: richard lacayo at August 20, 2007 10:08 AM