Author: dig

  • Shrubs

    Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
    ‘GRASS AND RAIN, ALASKA’

    mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s ‘131 – 24th Avenue San Francisco’ studio stamp (BMFA 4), titled and numbered in red ink (crossed out), Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), titled and numbered ’65’ in black ink, and with a ‘Virginia Adams Collection’ stamp on the reverse, overmatted, hinged to a modern mount, 1948, probably printed between 1950 and 1962 (This is The American Earth, p. 51) 5 by 6 1/4 in. (12.7 by 15.9 cm.)

    Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943)
    ‘TEN PHOTOGRAPHS’ – 10. ‘Redlands Woods, 1893’

    (New York: Witkin Gallery, 1971, a total edition of 60, 10 printed in platinum and 50 in gelatin silver), a portfolio of 10 platinum prints, each mounted, the portfolio label, with sequential numbers and ‘A. P. 1’ in ink, 1888-1911, printed in 1971 by George Tice; together with letterpress title/colophon, editioned ‘Artist’s Proof #1’ in ink, letterpress plate list, an introduction signed in ink by Evan Evans, the photographer’s son, and a preface signed in ink by George Tice. Folio, gilt-lettered green linen portfolio with flaps and slipcase.

    via sothebys

  • Twyla launched

    A photo posted by Twyla (@twyla) on

    Some works are coming soon. Fast Company.

  • Tillmans


    Wald (for transparency), 2015.
    Wolfgang Tillmans, 2015 Hasselblad Award winner

    Picture: © Wolfgang Tillmans
    Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, Maureen Paley, London and David
    Zwirner, New York.
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  • Hurricane Preparedness

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    Hurricane Matthew is serious.

    BULLETIN
    HURRICANE MATTHEW ADVISORY NUMBER 23
    NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL142016
    500 PM EDT MON OCT 03 2016

    …LIFE-THREATENING RAIN…WIND…AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED IN
    PARTS OF HAITI TONIGHT…
    …HURRICANE WARNING ISSUED FOR THE CENTRAL BAHAMAS…

    SUMMARY OF 500 PM EDT…2100 UTC…INFORMATION
    ———————————————-
    LOCATION…16.3N 74.7W
    ABOUT 140 MI…225 KM S OF TIBURON HAITI
    ABOUT 225 MI…360 KM SW OF PORT AU PRINCE HAITI
    MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…140 MPH…220 KM/H
    PRESENT MOVEMENT…N OR 10 DEGREES AT 7 MPH…11 KM/H
    MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…940 MB…27.76 INCHES

    Some tips to prepare. Evaluate your risks. Have some supplies.

  • Review of ATLBNL

    Rebecca Brantley’s review of ATLBNL for ArtsATL.

    ATLBNL leaves us with more crowded confusion than clarity

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    Image courtesy Atlanta Contemporary.

  • Police

    We need better and more open statistics, in order to improve the police. This story underlines the gap.

    After Ferguson, it became apparent that the official government count of the number of people killed by police was low; it was off by about 50 percent. So journalists started counting. The Washington Post counted 990 people shot dead last year, a quarter of them black. This year is on about the same pace. But Klinger says we need more details about every instance of deadly force, even when no one dies.

    The Washington Post : 2015 database – 990 people shot dead by police. 2016 database – 707, so far. Methodology. On Github.

    Black Lives Matter calls to defund (which does not mean to eliminate) and to prioritize the use of police departments.

  • Fugitiva by Eugenio Dittborn

    Fugitiva : Eugenio Dittborn : pinturas, dibujos, textos, pinturas aeropostales recientes = paintings, drawings, texts, recent airmail paintings
    Authors : Adriana Valdés, Ticio Escobar, Oscar Gacitúa, Roberto Merino, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Eugenio Dittborn
    Publisher: Santiago, Chile : Fundacio?n Gasco, 2005.

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    KOW. Alexander and Bonin. Afterall. imageandnarrative.

  • UNIA in California

    UNIA Division 156 of Los Angeles was part of a general spread of Garveyism between 1920 and 1921. According to UNIA parent body records recently uncovered in New York City, by 1926 there were sixteen divisions and chapters of the UNIA in California.

    Source: Emory Tolbert, The UNIA and Black Los Angeles: Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement (Los Angeles, 1980), pp. 57-58, 53.

    Via Dr. Taylor.