Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Wynwood Artist Mark Diamond

Lunch with Lydia: Wynwood Artist Mark Diamond looks at the big picture - Lunch With Lydia - MiamiHerald.com: "“The majority of the population has stereo binocular vision. We see the world around us in three dimensions. That’s what’s normal,” says Diamond, 56, whose shoulder-length hair is usually kept in check by a backwards Kangol beret. “What’s not normal is a two-dimensional photograph or painting. That’s an abstraction of reality. We have learned to interpolate the information we are given in a two-dimensional image. But there’s the story of the aboriginals who were given Polaroid photos of family members and friends and they didn’t understand what these images were because they hadn’t learned to extract from these two-dimensional representations what they were so familiar with in three dimensions.”" (read more at link above)

Photography: Home-grown angle to three fall shows
Los Angeles Times
What do the three most notable photography shows of the fall have in common? ... to mine the history of postwar art in L.A, receptivity to the home-grown has never been higher. ... fields and city streets, away from his tripod-mounted camera set on a 10-second timer. ... PHOTOS: Arts and culture in pictures by The Times.

'New Photography 2013,' at MoMA, Features 8 Iconoclasts
New York Times
Among the works by eight artists in “New Photography 2013” at the Museum of Modern Art is a series of prints by Josephine Pryde showing guinea pigs bustling ...



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