Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
Copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale I have been looking at the photographs that I made in 2008 for my project Places in Between, which in retrospect was not all that well thought out. It was part of SoFoBoMo, so I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to photograph, but the concept was not... Continue Reading →
copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale I just realized that it has been a few years since I last scanned one of my film transparencies with the Nikon L8000 film scanner. Rusty skills, but thank goodness, it is quickly coming back. Perhaps much like riding a bicycle. This is a 1x scan resolution and I am not... 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 →
Untitled (JiaShan) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale While at the LA Art Book Fair yesterday, I used a page from my own photobook development workshop, that is to obtain feedback from somebody you trust to review a project that is in progress. I belive that an artists needs to obtain some self-checks during the concept development process. First is an idea... 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 →
copyright the artists, 2013 published by Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) When I arrived at the OCCCA to pick up my framed photograph that was in the "Give Us Your Best Shot" exhibition, I found that an exhibition catalog was published and available. In due fashion, the catalog has the photographers listed alphabetically with... Continue Reading →
Untitled (RSM) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale Okay, I started to write about abstract photography as it might relate to my image above, then I realize that all I was writing was bull dung. So I deleted it. All photographs are abstract. period. This is an image that I made to investigate memory and probably appears "more" abstract than... Continue Reading →
untitled (Riverside) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale Always interesting to me as to if you allow an idea or concept to develop, what might become of it. A case in point was the project I was working on in China at the end of 2007 then became a means to a process that I continued to employ elsewhere.... Continue Reading →
America, My Way copyright 2012 Matej Sitar Perhaps without seeming too glib, but being open to chance and serendipity may as easy as keeping an open mind. I wish it were that easy. This past weekend, there was a convergence of serendipity that it was even hard for me to miss. As I wrote yesterday, I... Continue Reading →
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