The Keeping Time review ran last Friday in the Boston Globe and it was a good one! Yippee!

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The perspicacious Mark Feeney has some incredible insights as always. Here are some of my favorite Feeney phrases (the last Morris Louis one is truly super):

Among the virtues of “Keeping Time: Cycle and Duration in Contemporary Photography,” which runs at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University through Jan. 25, is the reminder it brings that time is not just the ocean photography splashes in but also the spray that it raises.

All photographs are, so to speak, sun-singed. …Think of the process as a visual equivalent of distressing a surface. Where a photograph captures an instant in time, McCaw’s techniques indicate time’s ongoing effects on that instant.

As the sun casts shadows from wine bottles, drinking glasses, and the like, Cummins traces the outlines of those shadows in colored inks. Meal concluded, she photographs the chromatic accumulation. Visually, it’s like having Morris Louis as your waiter.

Pulitzer-prize winning Boston Globe critic Mark Feeney paid us a visit last week.  This Monday, his review of the PRC Portfolio exhibition ran, and it’s a super one!  Thanks so much Mark, we are glad you enjoyed it!

You can preview the portfolio in the PRC gallery through this Sunday, September 14th, or in the online site for this collecting opportunity.  We have been contemplating showing the portfolio in other venues and sharing it with more people, and I think Mark seconds that emotion.  Here are a couple of good quotes below, but you can read the rest by clicking here.

Which means one of the year’s best shows has what must be the year’s shortest run….

The nicest bit of hanging in the exhibition plays off of color. Ralph Gibson’s “Bahia” shows a window through which we glimpse a rectangular slice of impossibly blue tropical sky. It’s so elemental it could be a Barnett Newman abstraction. Across the room, at an angle (like the window), is McPhee’s “Irrigator’s Tarp Directing Water, Fourth of July Creek Ranch, Custer County, Idaho.” Phenomenally gray and threatening clouds dominate the image, but what jumps out is the tarpaulin. It’s a darker but no less vivid blue than Gibson’s Brazilian sky. Samba meets C&W in a duet of blueness.

Sussex, Brazil, Idaho (Carlisle, too): many roads lead to the PRC’s space on Comm. Ave., at least photographically. There’s an easy balance between elsewhere and here. Lalla Essaydi goes to North Africa for “Les Femmes du Maroc #45″ and Dow ventures below the Rio Grande for “All Night Taco Stand, Av. Gustavo Baz Prada, El Country, Naucalpan, Estado de Mexico” (its lighting conjures up a south-of-the-border version of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”). Conversely, Sohier, the one photographer with a picture in both portfolios, offers “British Redcoat re-enactor, Battle of Concord and Lexington, Lexington, MA.” It amusingly - and disorientingly - joins past to present. An alternate title could have been “Musket Meets Subdivision.”

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The blog Cigarettes and Purity has been on a Boston kick as of late (thanks for the shout out!). Leave it to Wisconsin to point us to a new blog in our own backyard, “The Big Picture” from the Boston Globe!

When they say big pictures, they mean BIG! While most blogs resize pictures to around 450 pixels wide, these are a whopping 990 pixels - it’s great to see images at this size! Keep checking back for news and photojournalist images, there is a new one almost daily. I am sharing the above image from the Chinese earthquakes as startilingly, I haven’t seen too many of them and I think we should see more. You can explore more in this album.

From their mission:

The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting.

ABOVE IMAGE: A couple reacts immediately after an earthquake struck during their wedding photo shoot at a deserted catholic seminary in Pengzhou in southwest China’s Sichuan province Monday May 12, 2008. Five couples were having wedding photos taken when the earthquake struck, and all escaped without injury. The century-old seminary was destroyed in the quake, which left tens of thousands dead in Sichuan. (AP Photo)