What We Learned This Week: Film Is Getting Big, Literally, With New Large Formats
The analog photography movement just keeps bigger and bigger, we noted this week. Kodak confirmed that large-format films and 100-foot bulk rolls are now part of the new lineup of emulsions the company distributes directly. The news follows the gradual return of Kodak-branded 35mm and 120 films in fresh packaging. Meanwhile, OptiColour also expanded its large format offerings, while Harman is bringing its ISO 50 Ilford Pan F Plus film to both 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film, giving large-format photographers an exceptionally fine-grain, high-contrast black and white option.
Weekend Update: Surrealism in New York
When Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) wrote Life imitates art far more than art imitates life, he set of a chain reaction that has reverberated ever since. Adding, “the self-conscious aim of life is to find expression, and art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may release that energy,” he might well have been speaking of the interesting times in which we now live. With that in mind, DART offers a sampling of continuing and upcoming shows about Su...

