Looking at one photograph at a time
I am working on the photographs from my Roadside Remembrance Memorials series and I find myself thinking about the essence of these various sites. The way things are progressing I have completed a major redo of a half dozen images from the series and I will probably also re-publish my Blurb book-dummy as well. That being... Continue Reading →
In Passing, Speical Edition, Artist Proof (A/P) I by Douglas Stockdale Seems like a number of things have been coming together this week. First, as a result of publishing The Photo Book and linking a number of publishers and gallery bookstores to my journal, I now have an accepted gallery industry trade name for what I... Continue Reading →
Detoriating Wreath, Texas, 2006, copyright Douglas Stockdale Initially I thought that converting my folio to the Harman FB Mp paper from the Moab Entrada was just going to entail a little bit of image tweaking. Now in my book, to tweak an image means making some minor adjustments, that probably mean a lot more to... Continue Reading →
While trying to resolve some editorial issues for the other on-line journal I write, The Photo Exhibit, I decided to break out and start another on-line journal about photography books, called The Photo Book, http://www.thephotobook.wordpress.com Not much there yet, but over the next week, I will start exporting all of my writings about photographic books... Continue Reading →
"cour 7 rue de Valencia", 1922, Eugene Atget, courtesy of MOMA Always interesting in how one thing leads to another. So how does this all start, eh? Recently my work has been likened to the photographs of Walker Evans and a use of space similar to Eugene Atget. Which is very interesting, in as Atget is usually thought... Continue Reading →
While passing through Denver, I had a chance to spend a half day at the Camera Obscura Gallery with Hal Gould and Loretta Young-Gautier. We had a great conversation as we walked the three galleries of images, including the current exhibit of Christopher Burkett. I provided a copy of LensWork #74 with my series In Passing,... Continue Reading →
My friend Ellen Butler just sent me a "heads-up" and provided a link to the Creativity Network. If you scoll down, you will find: Doug Stockdale and my recent SoFoBoBo book Places Amongst Us. very nice. I guess I need to update my web site with some of the images from Places Amongst Us. That will have to go on... Continue Reading →
Well, I continued to think about the publishing strategy for my softcover version of In Passing. It seems that my logic for holding back the softcover version until I complete the Limited Edition was based on traditional book publishing rules. But I am not doing traditional book publishing, eh? Now for me, developing the softcover book... Continue Reading →
I received my other book production proof this week, the second book that came in is the second production proof of the softback version of In Passing. It was my first book production proof of In Passing last April that set me off to develop my POD sharpening book. I did not use the B3 custom color for the softbound version of In... Continue Reading →
While I was on out on assignment today, my updated book Places Amongst Us was delivered. As you might recall, I was disappointed with color of the first production proof, it was like they had put the entire book in a tonal compression chamber; the shadows were blocked and the highlights were blown. It did not... Continue Reading →
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