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Model Artist: Edward Weston made cabbages beautiful and nudes abstract, by Monique Beeler
From the website: "People know Ansel Adams much better," says Johnson, who curated the exhibition. "But (Weston) was really the guy Ansel Adams looked up to."
More Weston
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In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography
From the website: In 1934, when the Addison Gallery purchased a photograph by Margaret Bourke-White, it became one of only a handful of museums in the country to seriously collect photography. Seventy-five years in the making and consisting of more than 6,000 images dating from the 19th to 21st centuries, this collection represents one of the major repositories of American photography.
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An Appreciation: William Gottlieb, Jazz Photographer
From the website: William Gottlieb, who died Sunday...captured some of the greatest jazz artists of the bebop era during the 1940s.
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From the website: Todd Griffith, "Top Secret" (Eugene, Oregon, United States) |
World Pinhole Photography Day - April 30
From the website: This is an international event created to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photography.
More about pinhole photography
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William Wegman: Video Works: 1970-1999
From the website: It is an exhaustive archive of the innovative and influential, and often hilarious, performances of the artist both with and without his Weimeraner friend, MAN RAY. Inspired by the oblique humor of the 50s radio program Bob and Ray as much as by the atmosphere of experimentation in the art of the 60s, Wegman created a cross-over form of visual art that had almost no precedent and that received favorable critical notice from a wide audience of art lovers.
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For a Russian teenager, photography brings the legacy of Chernobyl into focus
From the website: Now that I am better able to use a camera, I have a strong desire to use my photos to explain to the world how we live, and that 20 years later the problem of Chernobyl still exists.
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GLCT
As their first assignment, beginning photographers in my classes are asked to photograph a mundane object.
Go to Mundane Assignment.
For example, a crumpled brown paper bag.
They're challenged to transform their mundane object into an objet d'art, with light, color, and tone (GLCT).
The assignment attempts to shift their focus, literally, from subject matter, to what makes a great photograph, GLCT.
A photograph of a tiger in India may be an ordinary photograph, without GLCT.
On the other hand, a feral cat along a highway in New Jersey, can become a great photograph, if there's GLCT.
Quantity Gets You Quality
In the final weeks of the class, passionate photographers, the runners, are separated from the more pedestrian photographers.
How?
By their motivation to develop simple self-assignments.
If you aren't taking/making photographs all of the time, you're just a pedestrian.
Quantity gets you quality.
Pedestrian photographers have to wait for the trip or family event.
That's the only time they run with their photography.
The subject matter stimulates their shutter fingers.
Yes, trips and family events should be photographed.
But, there are great photographs to be had whenever you encounter GLCT.
Let GLCT inspire your work, with a self-assignment.
A category or location can be an effective self-assignment.
Nicolai Grossman photographed a category, shopping carts.
Shopping Carts + GLCT = Great Photographs
Photon Detector, his blog
Julieanne Kost photographed from a location, a window seat in a jet.
Window Seat + GLCT = Great Photographs
Window Seat : The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking
If you let great light, color, and tone, stimulate your shutter finger, you'll have a lot of great work to show.
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From the website: Mr. Colom made clandestine photographs in the red light district of Barcelona, often holding his camera at waist level so as not to attract the attention of the prostitutes and their patrons in the Raval, the poorest neighborhood of the city.
Via gmtplus9
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Voyeur Photographer, Miroslav Tichý
At the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, in May
From the website: Tichý is truly one of the great "finds" of an unknown artists who worked on the outside edges of the art world. Following the communist takeover Tichý spent some eight years in prison camps and jails for no particular reason other than he was "different" and was considered subversive. Upon his release in the early 70's, Tichý wandered his small town in rags, pursuing his obsession as an artist with the female form by photographing in the streets, shops and parks with cameras he made from tin cans, childrens spectacle lenses and other junk he found on the street. He would return home each day to make prints on equally primitive equipment, making only one print from the negatives he selected.
Via Brian Larter
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A thread at Lightstalkers, a website for young photojournalists:
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Rachel Papo: Serial No. 3817131
From the website: Rachel Papo was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio but was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. These two intensive years of service inspired her current photographic project titled after her own number during service -- Serial No. 3817131.
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Brian Lesteberg - Field Dressing
From the website: The second defining aspect is the camaraderie between my father, the friends we hunt with, and myself. This second aspect, I must admit, is an area of interest that has not yet presented itself visually in the photographs. Concerning making new work, that relationship is something that has my attention.
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| Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917) |
Trust your own reactions, don't seek enlightenment by Grayson Perry
From the website: Such is the status that meaning can have over feeling that I bow to the pressure and engage what Steven Pinker calls the "Baloney Generator". This is our rational self that is so uncomfortable with the potential ambiguity of an emotional motivation that it will try to pin things down with desperately formulated rationales. The cleverer we are the better we are at making up more convincing meanings and reasons.
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From the website: To try and understand nature we have to be like her. And if we wish to take her portrait, we need a camera that is also like her: big, very big and always moving.
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Make Stadium Size Picture with 1,024 of Your Friends
The site is in Japanese.
The above link is for a poor Google translation.
Also see the Rasterbator for wall-sized photographs.
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From the website: Leibovitz had better hope Penn proves more receptive to homage than she was.
Via Conscientious
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From the website: Presented in Sakura are black and white pinhole photographs of the glorious displays of blooming cherry trees at the time of Sakura Matsuri, the annual cherry blossom festival in Japan. Aramasa employs the pinhole process for this series, a primitive photographic technique that functions like a miniature camera obscura, where light passes through tiny opening in a lensless camera and registers the image directly on film.
Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) at The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Saturday, April 29, & Sunday, April 30, 2006
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From the website: The exhibition combines beautiful, poignant imagery, impeccably executed, with both political and personal relevance. Greenberg's subject is almost a taboo image - children in pain - but she utilizes this uncomfortable image as a way to break through to the pop mainstream and participate in a growing national dialogue. As a new artist, Greenberg's work is powerful, crossing over from an established commercial profession to a promising fine art career. Greenberg states, "I manipulate my subjects to evoke an emotion to illustrate my personal beliefs."
Controversy!
Is Greenberg a child abuser, or a person concerned about the future of these tykes?
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jan von holleben - dreams of flying
From the website: Based in London, he founded the non-profit organization for emerging photographers photodebut (www.photodebut.org) in 2003 and has since worked as freelance photographer, picture editor and director of photography in London commissioning international photo-shoots.
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In re Epson Ink Cartridge Cases
From the website: This web site is established to provide information about the settlement of In re Epson Ink Cartridge Cases in Los Angeles County Superior Court, California. On February 7, 2006, the Court entered an Order granting Preliminary Approval of the proposed settlement. The Court will consider final approval of the settlement at a hearing on August 15, 2006.
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Thomas Kellner - Tango Metropolis
From the website: The intrigue of Kellner's work lies in its simultaneous participation in avant-gardist and historical photographic discourses while maintaining a level of individuality and aesthetic merit that captures the eye and refuses to let go. Aligned in the trajectory of great historical photomontage and collage artists like George Grosz and Aleksandr Rodchenko as well as participating in the cubistic dialogues of Picasso and Delauney, Kellner draws from extreme and broad influences. His signature and methodical style involves the precise and sequential photographing of individual fragments of his subjects and then printing the contact sheet in the exact order in which the images were shot. In this reversal of the generally exhibited photo work, the contact sheet becomes the finished product and can involve anywhere from 36 to 1,296 exposures, creating a disruptive yet pleasing effect.
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From the website: In 2003, I enrolled in a wet plate Collodion workshop and learned the basics of the process. Since then, I've been working exclusively in the wet plate Collodion process (my personal work) and have developed my own style and methodology for making plates and using it as a new tool for expressing my thoughts, questions and ideas. I make Amrotypes, Tintypes/Ferrotypes and negatives with the process. I also teach workshops, run AltPhoto Source, and I'm in the process of publishing the first fully color illustrated manual and DVD on the wet plate process.
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Beauty + Statement/Concern/Call for Action, in the tradition of Robert Adams
Seely teaches Nature and the City at ICP.
More night photography
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Go to the exhibits before the auction to see a wide range of work
Phillips de Pury - April 26
Sothebys - April 22
Christie's - April 24 & 25
Swann - May 18
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From the website: Tress describes his process: "I used city street gazettes to randomly trace out paths that followed along isolated stretches of decrepit waterfronts or elevated highways, putting myself into a kind of trancelike state almost as a somnambulist experiencing a night walk. I would try to trace these meandering routes as they simultaneously led both through the actual real world of dumps, cemeteries, and schoolyards and through another coexistent path, a path of the archetypal imagination, a path on which I was engaged in a photographic confrontation with the hostile forces and alienated inhabitants of the anxious urban landscape."
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New York Street Photography from the 1960s and 1970s
Diane Arbus, Roy Colmer, William Gedney, Joel Meyerowitz, Thomas Struth, Garry Winogrand
From the website: This exhibition features the work of three New York photographers, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Joel Meyerowitz, who played a major role in the emergence of street photography as a central photographic practice in the 1960s. Following the lead of William Klein and Robert Frank, these photographers helped to transform documentary photography with their eccentric vision of the world. As the practice extended into the 1970s, street photography absorbed other artistic movements, as evidenced by the work of William Gedney, Roy Colmer, and Thomas Struth, whose photographs demonstrate both the continuity and diversity of photography in the streets of New York. The show is the first in a planned series of exhibitions that will showcase recently acquired New York City photographs from 1950 to the present.
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Japanese photographer shares his view of plains
From the website: "The space, the wide-open space, fascinates me because I am from the city, Kyoto, Japan, which is something like 123 million people," Sumiura said during a visit to Sioux Falls last week. "Maybe I will someday shoot in the city, but I have no desire to do that right now."
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