Looking at one photograph at a time
JiaShan (China series) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - As I continued to chew on the whole 'subtlety' question (and thanks to Paul Butzi to working the question a little deeper), and specifically to how I am developing my photographs for my current series, I tried a little test. What if I attended my monthly print review with the Photographers Exchange,... Continue Reading →
I have found myself coming back to the Human/Nature exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and mostly to one image by Bart Michiel made in the present-day of the World War I battlefields near his home in Belgium. The images have been described as very subtle by the art critic Alice Thorson. Michiel is quoted as... Continue Reading →
In photograph magazine (Sept/Oct 2007), in an article written by Mia Fineman, she has the following quote from Richard Kalvar (Magnum photographer); "I like to play with the relationship between reality and the appreance of reality, which is the photograph. But you have to play by the rules. If not, the tension is lost."
Watching the Olympics the past couple of days has inspired me to work on my "Business as Usual" series. I have been looking at and editing this body of work for the last four months, but I have been struggling with the thread that pulls it together. I think that I may have found that... Continue Reading →
By Lyle Rexer in the May/June 2008 issue of photograph magazine; "As with identity, so with photography; apperance is a costumed pose, and what lies beneath it can only be implied, never fully revealed".
"Brie, France, 1968" photograph copyright of Henri Cartier-Bresson During a recent photographic image review on Stills, one landscape image brought up a reference to this photograph above by HCB. It is one of those images that is also similar to another photograph by Brett Weston, that I have always enjoyed. Something about that tree lined road that pulls me... Continue Reading →
I am still reading Joel Meyerowitz's interview in Cape Light, interesting ideas about photography, seeing, experiencing, color versus black & white, etc. Maybe I will elaborate more, but the one question I have is, that what was written in 1977 relevent today? hmmm. Julie O'Donnel in a recent article here, made a comment regarding about "a lack... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, SF, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, LA, and Pace/ MacGill Gallery, NY A brief article about Richard Misrach and some of his current landscape photographs made in Hawaii, was just published in Smithsonian (Augutst 08) A couple of excepts: So even his picture of a lone couple on a beach can be vaguely... Continue Reading →
I wrote the following as an updated note to an earlier entry, but it probably needs a seperate published manisfesto: I have been trying to reconcile the writing I do for this blog versus The Photo Exchange, were I am the current Managing Editor, so for this subject (The Business of Fine Art Phtograph) and similar topics... Continue Reading →
More investigating the spacial relationships of neighbors. Missouri.
Singular Images 