June 08, 2005

Colour after Klein, Barbican

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This was taken during a break in the proceedings during a screening of 'William Eggleston in the Real World', a documentary on the famous photographer by Michael Almereyda. Unfortunately, a third of the way through the film (which was a backup that had arrived that afternoon as DHL failed to deliver the master), the NTSC version'd DVD kept freezing - so much for digital film! Luckily, Martin Parr (one of my favoured photographers) and Michael Almereyda himself, as well as Val Williams, a photography curator and writer, were on hand to chat and take questions. Unluckily for some, the questions were a little cringeworthy and kept veering towards 'what were the bits we had missed?'... and one rude patron asked if they were going to get a refund!
Anyway, the one snippet I got out of the evening is that Parr is experimenting with digital camera phones at the moment because he likes how they can take photos in low light, and without anyone knowing. :)

Posted by kimgilmour at June 8, 2005 10:03 PM