MAGGIE COUGHLAN

Sadly, Dina Kantor’s “Photographing Communities” class at School of Visual Arts was canceled due to low enrollment.

Here’s what’s on deck for my summer instead.

Photographing the Familiar: Personal Space and Vision

“The home is an entry to memories, dreams and desires; it is both a fictional and a lived reality. This course will focus on domestic space and family photographs. Students will start a visual journal using snapshots of their past and present, and investigate the spaces and people that are relevant in their daily lives. By looking at a personal view of their intimate surroundings and relationships, students will uncover new aspects of their creative practice. All digital and film formats are welcome.”

A visual journal? Let’s do this.

Above: From my college days, the backroom in my childhood home filled with crafts and bins.

“Larry Fink reminded me that he’d been photographing parties for more than three decades. The images in his latest book, “The Vanities,” recently out from Schirmer/Mosel, have been culled from nine years of work at the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.”

[via The Sartorialist]