Here at jAlbum we are always looking for interesting stories about how people use our services. This is how we came across Mr Urbano and the 591 Photography Blog. The blog hosts an impressive number of photographers and uses jAlbum as a tool to create amazing online photography exhibitions filled with the kind of high quality artwork you usually only see in in real life exhibits at galleries or museums. We think this is an outstanding example of how jAlbum can be used to boost creativity and give inspiration to others.
photo © Mikael Jansson
The 591 Photography Blog opened in November 2008 with the vision to create a place focusing on the picture – not the camera or the technique or the hype.
Gallery 291 in New York was run by Alfred Stieglitz. It happened a hundred years ago, but the visions of 291 has been a great inspiration to 591 Photography. In 1914 Stieglitz published a series of responses to the question "What is 291?" in an issue of Camera Work. Eugene Meyer responded with a free-form poem. To him 291 represented:
A sturdy Islet of enduring independence in the besetting seas of Commercialism and Convention
A rest – when wearied
A stimulant – when dulled
A Relief
A Negation of Preconceptions
A Forum for Wisdom and for Folly
A Safety valve for repressed ideas
An Eye Opener
A Test —
A Solvent
A Victim and an Avenger”
This is also much of what we would like 591 Photography to represent.
Since the start more than 600 photographers have presented pictures, series and exhibitions on 591.
jAlbum Exhibitions
Below you will find a selection of 591 exhibitions created using jAlbum.
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For more exciting online exhibitions, visit the 591 Photography Blog.
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