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Snaggle
5-16-2008 5:13 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/be2bba62-76d2-4bfd-9506-e113ffb4caa3/52275B0D-00B2-4682-AAC2-4931626E64D7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html" href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html">Seeing an image on screen is one thing, but there is no substitute for turning the pages of a real photography book - if only more exhibitions would allow us to</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html">I remember seeing a vintage print of Edward Weston's portrait of the photographer and revolutionary <A href="http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1830">Tina Modotti</A> (<A href="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/modotti.reciting.weston.jpg">Tina Reciting Poetry</A>, 1924), up close for the first time</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/modotti.reciting.weston.jpg" href="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/modotti.reciting.weston.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">web.ncf.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/modotti.reciting.weston.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/web.ncf.ca/img/63F3B3C6-5791-46FC-87F0-79FC87B5C089" alt="http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/modotti.reciting.weston.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html" href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html">the velvety richness in its dark tones made it seem almost three-dimensional, the weight and tension of the paper as integral to the experience of looking at it as the image it held</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html">I watched as a vintage print of Walker Evans's <A href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:1777&page_number=4&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Main Street, Saratoga Springs</A>, New York, 1931 (a favourite, which always reminds me in turn of Monet's <A href="http://www.nga.gov.au/monetjapan/Detail.cfm?WorkID=W293">Boulevard des Capucines</A> (1873) emerged from its tissue paper</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A1777&page_number=4&template_id=1&sort_order=1" href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A1777&page_number=4&template_id=1&sort_order=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.moma.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A1777&page_number=4&template_id=1&sort_order=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.moma.org/img/95481B7D-40FC-43DD-8844-4AEA54910B13" alt="Walker Evans. Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York. 1931" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html" href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html">With no glass between it and me, it was surprising how much concentration the close contact with the surface of the print encouraged</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html">two exhibitions currently at the V&A</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html"> <A href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/contemporary/bloodonpaper/index.html">Blood on Paper</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/among_the_archives_hands_on_wi.html"> <A href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/galleries/38a/index.html">38A</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/52275B0D-00B2-4682-AAC2-4931626E64D7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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