Photography: July 2008 Archives

FEW CAN SAY AS MUCH WITH AN IMAGE AS JR.

He’s called JR and he’s French. Nothing special there. The thing that strikes me about JR, though, and the world it seems, is that few can use pictures of people with the kind of impact he does. He blows photographs up big on the streets, pictures of people the world would otherwise forget. And he does it to provoke.

I LIKE THE IDEA OF USING TECHNOLOGY IN A WAY IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE USED. Thom Yorke

It’s fair to say there’s been a fair bit of excitement brewing over the last few days regarding the new Radiohead video for the In Rainbows song House of Cards. No one’s seen it yet as it hasn’t hit YouTube etc, but we know it’s different because, true to the band’s legendary dedication to experimentation and new technologies, they decided not to use cameras at all.