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An interesting event taking place not too far away.....

FROM THE BBC TO JUNCTION

Ben Osborne brings PLANET EARTH to Goole

This week, Junction continue their working relationship withArtERY on Wednesday (3^rd Feb) with a new show by Ben Osborne. In Dog Days, Lion Nights we are taken“behind-the-scenes” on two filming expeditions to northern Botswanawith the BBC natural history series "Planet Earth". Starting with theOkavango Delta, Ben tells the story of how the team spent weeks on the trail ofone of Africa’s rarest large predators,the African Hunting Dog. In the second expedition, the crew found themselves inSavuti, a dry savannah region, where Ben and the team followed a pride of lionsday and night for a month - with dramatic, and occasionally unpredictable,consequences.

Audio-visual sequences, featuring music by the Soweto StringQuartet, celebrate the stunning wildlife and landscapes of the Okavango Deltaand provide a close-up view of the animals which struggle to survive in theparched landscape of Savuti.

A tie-in photography workshop will take place on Saturday 6^thFeb, and will include a discussion of wildlife & landscape photographytechniques based on some of Ben's images from around the world. Call the boxoffice for more information (01405 763652).

DOG DAYS, LION NIGHTS

SHOW: Wed 3^rd Feb 7.30pm £7/£5

WORKSHOP: Sat 6^th Feb 2pm £5

Combined ticket for show & w/shop: £10/£8

Welcome to the 2nd York Photographic Society quarterly newsletter

The 2nd issue of the York Photographic Society quarterly newsletter is now available for download. Click on the image to download

Permajet free P&P

Last nights (excellent) Speakers mentioned that they had a code for free P&P on the excellent Permajet Papers.
As Paula explains below you'll need to phone your order and quote the supplied code

"Just a note to let you know that the free code to give you free postageand packing on your order is APP7026 and you will need to call 01926403090. Hopefully in about a month's time it will be set up to do thison line."

Welcome to the first York Photographic Society quarterly newsletter

The first issue of the York Photographic Society quarterly newsletter is now available for download. Link here

Blog Links

Some photographic blog links for inspiration advice and reviews.

http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/

http://www.kenrockwell.com

http://blog.chasejarvis.com

http://www.aphotoeditor.com

http://web.me.com/brendatharp1/brendatharpblog

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer

Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski

From the online photographer

I am enormously pleased to pass along the news that the long-awaited, on-again off-again reprint of John Szarkowski's great book Looking at Photographs is available once more.

If I have one single favorite book about photography, this would be it. It's a modest and simple book: Szarkowski, the longtime Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art and a great connoisseur, picked one hundred photographs from the collection and wrote short essays about each one. The pictures are on the right-hand page, with the essays facing them on the left. None of the essays fill more than a single page. The book is a paperback, not thick and not expensive.

The essays are, if anything, as beautiful as the pictures: brief, eloquent, measured, specific, declamatory and often poetic. Reading each essay has the effect of getting you to look at the corresponding picture repeatedly, adding to the richness of your experience of it. Oddly enough, the critical perspective is not what I'd call crucial—in many cases the essays are personal, elliptical, touched off by the photographs rather than constrained entirely by them; they are not even the final word on these specific pictures, never mind all of each chosen photographer's work. And yet, strangely, after finishing the book, and reading it again, and thinking about it, you realize that a great many of photography's concerns, glories, and riddles have been touched upon along the way. Think of it not as anything definitive, but as a way of tagging along as one one sensible, erudite and articulate observer experiences great work. It's the best guided museum tour of photographs ever locked into ink.

Assuming I can get permission, I'll publish a sample image and picture from the book in a day or two, so you can get a taste of the book and decide whether you might like it.

In the large literature of photography, there are only a handful of books that photographers of every level and type could read and look at with pleasure; there are fewer that deserve the attention even of general readers. This is one, in my humble opinion. I'm very pleased it's back in print.

$26.37 at Amazon U.S.
£21.21 at Amazon U.K.