Category: art school

A rock,

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a stepping stone. Even those I taught for years do not know me.

Bergger — arches base / forte coating

“Nearly a year after restructuring, following a period of receivership, Forte will cease production at the end of this week. This is a real shame. Forte have been producing a full range of graded and variable graded papers, films and chemicals in the old Kodak works in Vac, Hungary since 1922.”

[ Here is a link with an announcement by the company stating their intent to permanently cease operations on January 26th, 2007…

http://www.aphog.de/index.php?option…d=107&Itemid=1 ]

[ The British Journal of Photography similarly reports that the factory is to be demolished to make way for housing (this is exactly what happened to Stirling in India five years ago).

http://www.bjp-online.com/public/sho…ml?page=431015 ]

“At the end of the day, it appears that the land is simply worth more than people will pay for the operation. And it would be unreasonable to expect potential investors to pay a lot for that operation because the plant is somewhat outdated and designed to produce a capacity much greater than they need. In other words, any profit is likely to be modest.”

Todd Hido

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From Todd Hido’s CCA thesis (1966)

Items of Interest and Motivation

  1. Robert Adams. Los Angeles Spring. New York: Aperture, 1986. Nobuyoshl Araki. Femme de Mouche. Tokyo: Mizuki, 1994. Lewis Baltz. Park City. New York: Aperture, 1981.
  2. Jean Baudrlllard. Cool Memories. New York: Verso, 1987.
  3. Bernd and HIiia Becher. Water Towers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1988.
  4. Richard BIiiingham. Ray’s a Laugh. Zurich and New York: Scale, 1996. Jeff Buckley. Grace. Columbia CK 57528, 1994, compact disc.
  5. ltalo Calvino. Difficult Loves. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Raymond Carver. Short Cuts: Selected Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
  6. Larry Clark. Teenage Lust. New York: Larry Clark, 1987. Walker Evans. First and Last. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
  7. Robert Frank. Moving Out. Authored by Sarah Greenough. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; Zurich and New York: Scale, 1994.
  8. Nan Goldin. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. New York: Aperture, 1986. Emmet Gowin. Photographs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
  9. P. J, Harvey. Rid o~ Me. Island Records 314-514 696-2, 1993, compact disc. Cralgle Horsfield. Craigie Horsfield. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Darkroom, 1988.
  10. Edward T. Llnenthal. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Liz Phair. Exile in Guyville. Matador OLE 051-1 2xLP, 1993, compact disc. Richard Prince. Girlfriends. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1993.
  11. Sophie Rlstelhueber. Aftermath: Kuwait, 1991. London: Thames & Hudson, 1992.
  12. Jo Spence and Patricia Holland. Family Snaps: The Meanings of Domestic Photography. London: Virago Press, 1991.
  13. Larry Sultan. Pictures from Home. New York: Abrams, 1992.