links for 2006-08-13

• Geoff Dyer: "Weddings are constructed entirely to be photographed."
  Tim de Lisle explores how families and photographs became so entwined. UK film images peaked at 3.5bn images in 1999, UK film and digital images expected to be 8bn in 2006.
  (tags: photo geoffdyer family culture memory)
• One positive review of Ron Mueck in Edinburgh
  Craig Raine likes that it achieves a hyper-reality.
  (tags: art ronmueck craigraine toread)
• And one negative review of Ron Mueck in Edinburgh
  "Come to Mueck with a nuanced sense of what art is and you will recognise that he is really just a model-maker [...] It insists on the gut and provides the head with nothing at all" (Jonathan Jones asks us to email him explaining why Mueck is any good.)
  (tags: art ronmueck jonathanjones toread)