Looking at one photograph at a time
Douglas Stockdale & framed "America" 2018 copyright Gerhard Clausing Last Friday had a wonderful evening at LACP for the Faculty group exhibition opening reception. Top line; it was nice to see my Middle Ground print on the wall, a continuing validation of this project. Second it was really enjoyable to see some friends in that... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods, April 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale While I am going slightly crazy preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for the Middle Ground project, the weather has warmed and my aloa vera are budding. It is Memory Pods season again! This is my fourth season of working on the Memory Pods project at my studio.... Continue Reading →
America (Middle Ground - En Medio Tierra), copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am very honored that my photograph “America” from my forthcoming self-published artist photobook Middle Ground will be featured in LACP’s First Annual “Faculty, Member and Alumni (FMA)” Exhibition at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. This is the first exhibition of my photographs... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, book dummy 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale When I was re-examining my Middle Ground project in the context of how symbolic the subject was to the issues facing the DREAMers, I realized that another way to underscore this concept was to have the book's text in both English and Spanish. A gringo process to... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend during my LACP mini-seminar on photo book development using my book-dummy #4 for the Middle Ground project, this book design really gelled for me. It was now time to move forward to the next phase; book printing. Fortunately Craig Evans, my printer representative for Dual... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the take-aways from the leporello book-dummy kit that I had received from the printer was some additional design tweaks to the cover. Two days ago I received a couple of samples of the revised cover design; I think a Winner is in the House! To... Continue Reading →
Marker #34, Middle Ground, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier this month I had posted about how I was obtaining some feedback on my project Middle Ground which kinda of set me back a tiny bit regarding my artist statement and the underlying concept. But in a very good way. I have known that frequently artist,... Continue Reading →
Leporello Book-dummy kit, Middle Ground, 2018 Copyright Douglas Stockdale You know that when you are self-publishing a new book you are getting very, very close to the final design when you receive a book-dummy kit from the printer, who in this case is Dual Graphics, in Brea. This is a leporello book-dummy kit, for Middle... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, revised edit, March 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale At this point the realist side (aka the practical engineer) of my personality is kicking in. While I would really, really like to have a large commercial (trade) photobook of the leporello design published, I am not sure that I can obtain the financing for this... Continue Reading →
Douglas Stockdale, Palos Verdes Art Center, 2018, photograph by Karen Schuenemann I am very honored and excited to announce that I am part of the inaugural LACP (Los Angeles Center of Photography) Mentor-ship program that was just formally launched by this LA organization. This builds on my recent LACP experience as a workshop leader for my... Continue Reading →
