WNYC’s Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson visited AIPAD a few weeks ago (the Association of International Photography Art Dealers), and came away with the piece below, discussing the current state of the art market vis-a-vis the economy. Not Atlanta-centric, but interesting nonetheless. Press the pink button to play, and scroll forward to :25 seconds in, if you can’t wait.

We like to keep a local focus on the Atlanta photographic community, but seeing that ACP Now! is a “photoblog“, I thought I’d provide a few quick links to other photoblogs that create original content worth reading. Some are extremely popular, others are hidden gems.

• If you like vintage cameras and printing techniques, check out
  silverbased.org.
• Peer inside the mind of a magazine photo editor at aphotoeditor.com.
• Magnum Photos has their own blog and a lot of good subscribeable content, including this post, which points to many fine resources.
• Heading East is run by Raul Guttierez from Brooklyn and keeps a wide-eye on the global photography scene.
• Conscientious is “quite” the heavyweight fine art photography blog, run by physicist Jorg Colberg.
• Strobist is a resource for DIY lighting solutions.
• ACP 9 lecturer Alec Soth had a pre-eminent artist’s blog that’s grown dusty (victim of its own popularity?) but the archives are still worth a looksee.
• I Heart Photography features daily updates of work across a wide spectrum.
• Mary Virginia Swanson, who gave a presentation during ACP 9 at MOCA GA, runs “Marketing Photos with Mary Virginia Swanson“.
• Flakphoto posts new work from a variety of sources, nearly every day.
• 5B4 takes a dedicated look at photobooks and photobooks only.

Linked out? There are plenty of photographers (some emerging, some emerged) who run their own blogs as well. Have a look at Amy Stein, Peter Baker, Richard Renaldi, David Alan Harvey, Liz Kuball, Olivier Laude, Andrew Heatherington, Todd Deutsch, Brian Ulrich, Shane Lavalette, Will Steacy, and Zoe Strauss.

Links to local photoblogs (and blogs of ACP participants) can always be found in the “Friends and Neighbors” section of the sidebar on the right. Feel free to list yours in the comments!

William Boling, an Atlanta-based photographer and supporter of ACP, is part of “Montage: Unmonumental Online”, a group show at the New Museum, in NYC. His project “You Ain’t Wrong“, an exploration of online auction imagery, is viewable online at rhizome.org.

Boling’s exploration is a mash-up of found imagery on the New Zealand auction site TradeMe, vs. the global auction site eBay. Boling’s pairings of images from the two sites create a new narrative that begs one to unpack not just the pairings, but how and why these images originated in the first place. For more, check out the interview of Mr. Boling by Stephen Shore.

From the curator:

“William Boling’s work reflects on the status of found and vernacular photography in the era of Web commerce. The artist has compiled a large archive of product photos placed by their owners on the online auction sites eBay (USA) and TradeMe (New Zealand). On his Website, You Ain’t Wrong (2007), seemingly random juxtapositions of images from the respective sites simulates a dialectical fusion between the two, leaving the viewer to imagine and fill in the meaning created in these mergers. This project evolved from Boling’s earlier eBay-only project, called Peel (2006), but suggests an added layer of ethnographic context. In this sense, the artist manages to bring the now very “traditional” techniques of photography and montage into the realm of digital narratives. “