July 16, 2009
Life, as Seen Through My Phone
The New York Times writes up a viewing Wednesday at the Stephen Weiss Studio in downtown Manhattan of 14 artists, who were asked to chronicle a week in their lives with a Casio Exilim Mobile camera phone.
The show’s attraction was that it highlighted the rise of the camera phone as a totem of cool.
... James Danziger of the Danziger Project gallery doubts that camera-phone images will ever have merit as art. “Where they are most interesting is in a journalistic situation,” he said. Because, as every cell-toting teenager knows, camera phones are perfect for capturing ephemera.
Cass Bird, whose ethereally lighted portraits of friends and celebrities were on view at Weiss studio, said her favorite images “are just intimate moments, that if you had to bust out a conventional camera, you probably would miss.”
Read full article. Above left, camera-phone photo by Chrissie Miller.
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