Colin Edgington: News

R.I.P. – Joe Deal

colin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:23:30 +0000

The world has lost a great American Landscape photographer in Joe Deal. As part of the New Topographics gang, Deal photographed the physical world in ways unlike his predecessors, revealing, like Robert Adams, new aesthetic methods and subjective choices in Landscape Photography that many of us take for granted “nowadays”. See his monograph West and West

NYTimes obituary

Afterimage 37:6 out now!

colin — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:22:01 +0000

My review of Doug Fogelson’s The Time After is in the new issue of Afterimage V37 no. 6. His work is powerful and theoretically engaging, balancing a criticism (& embracing) of the functionality of the camera and the copiousness of the image/photograph while retaining a sense of beauty.

Afterimage V37 no.6

[**the dates for Guy DeBord's La Societe du Spectacle are 1967 for the book & 1973 for the film**]

A Word Cloud of Badiou’s “15 Theses on Contemporary Art”

colin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:24:59 +0000

An attempt to confuse (pollute?) Badiou's theses in a "wordle" Word Cloud! Is this the counter to Badiou's use of Lombardi?


A Wordle of Badiou's 15 Theses on Contemporary Art

Paolo Ventura | Winter Stories

colin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:17:32 +0000

In this interview Paolo Ventura discusses his influences, process and use of photography. He’s engaged in the long history of staging for the camera, or what A.D. Coleman termed the “Directorial Mode”. Wonderful work that plays between memory, mood and fiction. His monograph Winter Stories can be found at Aperture.

Paolo Ventura on Winter Stories from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

Off The Map

colin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:50:54 +0000

Come see The Rutgers MFA Graduating Class of 2010 at Whitebox next month!! See more at ArtCat!

What: Off The Map (Website Designed by Matt Posey)

Where: Whitebox (Press Release)

When: April 1 – May 2

Opening: April 10, 5-9pm

Off The Wall Announcement Card

Studio shot of Ash photographs

colin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:26:14 +0000

A recent studio shot of four Ash pieces from my recent work.

The Power of the Image – The History of Motion

colin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:22:40 +0000

Lately I’ve been really interested in THIS post at Wired’s “This Day in Tech” blog on Tom A. Warner‘s Lightning research and the images/videos that have resulted from the research. It is interesting to think of his research in relation to the history of photography & motion and to these kinds of visual studies that have changed our perception and understanding of the physical world, natural phenomena, time and speed. The slowing down of lightning specifically has me thinking of Eadweard Muybridge and his motion studies from The Attitudes of Animals in Motion.

One of Eadweard Muybridge's Motion Study - 1877

Warner’s Lightning

More Lightning [Source]

Even More Videos

Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field

Thesis Show Installed

colin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:46:53 +0000

I want to thank everyone who came to the opening, it was a great turnout! A big thank you to all those who could and couldn’t make it to the show for all the wonderful feedback and support. I’d also like to congratulate my fellow colleagues in both thesis exhibitions! I’m proud to have shown and worked with you!

See below for installation photographs of my work in Smoke + Flowers: MFA Thesis Exhibition I

View of Snowfall, Cloud and futuregrove

View of Snowfall and Cloud

View of Dust from Right

View of Rainfall

Panorama of The Show

Smoke and Flowers

colin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:19:10 +0000

Smoke and Flowers: the first half of the MFA Thesis Exhibitions opens this tuesday (with the reception taking place on Wed. from 5-7).

Here’s a list of who is in the MFA Thesis Exhibition I:

Poster for Smoke + Flowers designed by Avi LaZare

Installation in Progress

colin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:52:27 +0000

Below is a quick in progress installation shot. I’ll upload photographs of the show in the near future.

White Empty Earth installation in progress