River’s Dream by Curran Hatleberg From Curren Hatleberg’s book, River’s Dream. Photograph: © Curran Hatleberg, courtesy of TBW Books The American south has long been fertile territory for photographers in search of atmosphere and a sense of otherness, but Curran Hatleberg’s book, River’s Dream, possesses a dreamlike quality all of […]
Month: December 2022
The Great Movie Behind the Nodding Man GIF
It does not get way too lengthy net surfing to experience some youngster’s strategy of humor: a looping, seconds-prolonged video clip graphic of Robert Redford nodding his approval, in reaction to a sarcastic statement or maybe a “big booty.” Whilst modern day civilization has not quite shut the cultural hole […]
Best Bets: A quick guide to online and in-person entertainment and experiences
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing listing of online activities and local in-person events. Holiday events • The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is holding a holiday book sale through December at 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. The yearly sale features a large selection of gently used books, CDs, vinyl […]
The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia
If you wanted to understand why flipping through Stacy Kranitz’s recent photography book, As It Was Give(n) to Me, feels like plunging your head into ice water, you could ponder the omission of captions that might have contextualized her images of Appalachia. You could dwell on the dissonant chord struck […]
Why Meditation Will Increase Your Photography Performance
Wouldn’t you like to continue to be targeted and calm even when multitasking and capturing in a incredibly demanding situation? How about getting able to detect all the things without staying distracted by anything? Meditation can help and that’s why quite a few photographers are acquiring into it. Intrigued? Read […]
Steven Spielberg’s Movie Magic Has a Dark Side
The final act of Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical movie, The Fabelmans, revolves around what should really come to feel like a triumph for its teenage protagonist, Sammy. A budding filmmaker in early-1960s California—and an evident Spielberg analogue—Sammy screens a motion picture all through prom that he shot of his classmates. The […]