#pre-glitch

[thejestertwins]

Do you love the color of the sky?

[glitchphotography]

I learned this from an OceanX tiktok video...  Although French Biologist Louis Boutan pioneered underwater photography beginning in the 1890s, the first known underwater photograph was taken decades earlier in 1856, by British natural historian William Thompson in the Bay of Weymouth in Dorset.

Thompson prepared a collodion wet plate in a dark tent, placed his camera inside a housing made of wood and iron, and lowered it from a boat to a depth of 5.5 meters (18 feet) with the help of a friend. The first attempt didn’t produce an image, so Thompson doubled the exposure time and the second (and final) attempt resulted in the photograph above. 

Thompson’s image may have preceded Boutan by 40 years, but it was considered a failed photograph. Supposedly, Thompson was hoping to survey a bridge’s underpinnings but after seeing that image, he never attempted an underwater photograph again. So like, it’s obviously anachronistic to call this is photograph a glitch, but there is a failure of process here that’s analogous to the failure of process in much of glitch art today. What’s changed over time is the technology and the social currents that inform the photographer’s intent. I think a big part of a glitch photography practice is reconceptualizing the history of images and the artistic canon to reflect, among other things, the beautiful failures that got discarded in the wake of technological achievement.

[askcaptainschariot-blog]

uhm... anyways... the questions...

@talaldev: on the pain scale, i'd probably say a little worse than getting my ears pierced, but not nearly as bad as ripping my mask off for the first time, which was painful as shit.

@ask-ann-takamaki: i dunno, why are you asking me? i got it done a few days after my birthday, so... oh! also! i tried getting a better sense of style like you told me to! whaddaya think? will the chicks dig me yet?

and second anon, yeah, i have two. the one i'm wearing right now is yellow and matches my ear piercings, and the second one is black.

[glitchphotography]

These photos taken by Japanese photographers after the nuclear bomb are harrowing: 01 - “A view of Hiroshima in September 1945, weeks after an atomic bomb destroyed the city.” by.Yoshito Matsushige/Chugoku Shimbun

02 - “ The mushroom cloud on Aug. 9, 15 minutes after the explosion.” by Hiromichi Matsuda,

03 - “A family cremating its dead in Nagasaki in September 1945″ by Eiichi Matsumoto

[glitchphotography]

Here is the full video of John Whitney’s “Matrix III”

[glitchphotography]

Computer Drawings by Vera Molnár { 

1. Structure de Quadrilatères (Square Structures), 1985 2. Structure de Quadrilatéres (Square Structures), 1985 3. Interruptions, 1968/69, open series, plotter drawing, 28.5 x 28.5 cm 4. A la Recherche de Paul Klee (Searching for Paul Klee) (detail). 1970 

[glitchphotography]

“TV Shots” by Harry Gruyaert (1972)

Looking at the histories of photography, there’s hardly a canon of glitch, It’s easier to trace your precursors in video art, or computer art, or net art. With photography it’s a tricky and serendipitous thing, so it’s important to shine a light on those who experimented before us. The other day, I saw a bit on the Magnum Photo blog about Harry Gruyaert’s photographs of broadcast transmissions from 1972, which included the Black September of the Munich Olympics.

from the article linked above:

“When I was living in London in the early 70s there was a crazy television set in my house. By playing around with the antenna and tweaking the controls I could suddenly obtain fascinating colours.

This led me to spend a couple of months following the latest news as it happened from the first Apollo flights to the Munich Olympic Games, as well as American and English television series and ads. It made me see the world in a different way and to question the ever-growing influence of television throughout the world. [...]

I had therefore become a kind of bedroom reporter confronted with the “society of spectacle”, in front of this factory of universal thought: It’s probably the only time in my life when I truly felt like a “photojournalist”, as close as I would ever be to the world’s terrible reality: the machine, sabotaged by flamboyant disrespect, is put back in its place and its message becomes absurd and alarming, wrote Yves Bourde in the French Newspaper Le Monde in 1974.“

[glitchphotography]

Assorted works by Japanese digital art pioneer Hiroshi Kawano, who created some of the first “computer art” pieces while working as a philosophy lecturer at the University of Tokyo in the 60′s.

1>>> Design 3-1. Data 4, 5, 6, 6, 6 [2nd order color Markov chain. Division in 12 sub-pictures] 1964 OKITAC 5090A

2>>> Red Tree Simulated Color Mosaic (Serie) 1971 IBM 360/75, Fortan 4

3>>> Artificial Mondrian 1966/1969 Computer: HITAC 5020