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ANSCO Snapfolio booklet cover I was aware of the Kodak processing promotional booklets, but until recently, I was not aware that ANSCO, their film processing competitor in the 1950's and 60's, had a similar film processing promotion. That was until I was sorting through my Grandmother's family photo collection that had been passed down to... Continue Reading →
untitled (Charlene, Phoenix, 1955) copyright Douglas Stockdale While working on my SNAPS project, I have been evaluation some photographs that are still in their original Kodak processing folders or booklets. If I recall, Kodak was providing these booklets as a bonus with a set of the larger prints. I notice that for these Kodak booklets,... Continue Reading →
10 x 10 American Photobooks, selection by Douglas Stockdale Over the weekend, the second phase of the 10 x 10 American Photobooks reading room project was provided at the PGH Photo Fair held at the UnSmoke Systems Artspace (Braddock, PA). The reading room photobooks are now being packed for the final installation at the Tokyo... Continue Reading →
copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale With the demise of Kodak 120 Ektachrome, I have made the required change to the 120 Fujichrome, in my case the Fujichrome Provia 100F, considered a Super Fine Grain film. This also means that I might need to make some changes in my overall workflow, including the film scanning on the... Continue Reading →
Walking the Red Carpet copyright 2009 Douglas Stockdale In September of 2009 I developed a photographic concept that I thought might be well suited as part photobook, part performance, what I am calling a blog-photobook. Recall that this was about the time of the first iPad launch, some two and a half years ago. So... Continue Reading →
Untitled (PingHu) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale I have completed the first edit for my photobook project Flow of Light Brush the Shadows and have embarked into the early stages of developing the book dummy. Thus I am giving a lot of consideration to sequencing and image pairing to establish the flow or narrative aspects of the book. For this investigation of memory... Continue Reading →
Ciociaria copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale published by Edizioni Punctum (Rome) - I recently read a post from another photographer asking others if they have any regrets with a photobook that was published about their work. For me, three small details come to mind that I wish I could retrospectively tweak for my photobook Ciociaria that was published by Editizoni Punctum. First... Continue Reading →
Instant Nomad (Italy) copyright 2010 Douglas Stockdale While working on the Ciociaria project, this composition was interesting to me as the empty bench created a sense of anticipation. This bench under the cover was meant to be used by someone. The broken path through the fallen leaves on the sidewalk indicates that someone has alredy been by here before. It... Continue Reading →
Instant Nomad (Italy) 2010 copyright Douglas Stockdale As an itinerant and transit worker (as I am an Instant Nomad), I end up frequently eating alone in distant restaurants. The downside: one is a very lonely number. The upside: eating in little family owned restaurants can be delightful and interesting. This small Italian pizzeria off the plaza... Continue Reading →
photographs copyright the artists I find it interesting as to how much of my available time is required to curate the photobook exhibition at Fotografia di Roma. The exhibition opens this Thursday at 8pm and runs through the end of October. Whereas I had plans to be in Rome for the exhibition opening, my travel... Continue Reading →
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