Monthly Archives: August 2008

The Camera Phones Of The World Wept Gently Today

By Jens Haas | Published: August 14, 2008
Darius Himes takes issue (here) with a comment that I made some time ago (here) on his excellent interview with Stephen Shore, and Shore’s convincing reasoning why he used large format cameras. My response to the specific argument Shore made in that interview was that, today, he could use a high resolution digital camera of [...]
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What Typewriter Do You Use – Part 13

By Jens Haas | Published: August 11, 2008
The photograph above is one of my favorites from this summer’s mountain series; the one below, although it does not quite stand on its own as a single image, goes along nicely (at this size the gist of both of them is somewhat lost compared to looking at the prints, but that’s what everybody is [...]
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Is There A Place For Modernist Experimentation In The Reich?

By Jens Haas | Published: August 8, 2008
Here’s a great little interview with Martin Parr at PDN online, via Rachel Hulin. Parr is still a breath of fresh air, and by now probably immune to the moral indignation of the ever-alive romantico-humanist tradition. In my Berlin years, trying to find my own voice, I had a lot of fun going out and [...]
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